At the annual meeting of the American Library Association, librarians heard the results of research into how students actually use the library and how to make that process a little easier. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“Springer Announces New Open-Access Journals”
The commercial publisher expands its experiment in incorporating open access into its business model. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“Scholarly Presses Confront an Increasingly Digital Present”
Hyperabundance and the future of the long-form argument, how and what libraries buy, and e-books, e-books, e-books: Those topics were front and center at the annual conference of the Association of American University Presses, held in Salt Lake City June 17-20, 2010. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“AAUP 2010: A State of ‘Perpetual Transition'”
Richard Brown, the director of Georgetown U. Press and the new president of the university-press association, says that scholarly publishing is not in a state of crisis but in a state of "perpetual transition." Read More at PageView (CHE) »
“AAUP 2010: How Did University Presses Do This Year?”
JHU Press director Kathleen Keane, stepping down as the president of the Association of American University Presses, told the group's annual meeting that things were bad this year but could have been worse. Read More at PageView (CHE) »
