by Nancy K. Herther (This is Part 2 of a 2 Part article. Here is the link to Part 1.) In a recent Scholarly Kitchen article , Ohio State University Press Director Tony Sanfilippo examined the impact of the current political emphasis on “alternative facts” and attacks...
by Nancy K. Herther Just as Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs left their mark on history with the early Apple Computer, Jobs redefined communication with the iPhone, and Bill Gates was able to define the very language of computing with DOS and later Windows; Amazon’s Jeff...
by Nancy K. Herther Sunday, February 26th 2017, Eugene Garfield passed away at 90 years old. He was a gentle giant of a man, renowned for his development of citation indexes and his foundational work in citation analysis and development of the impact factor, the...
by Nancy K. Herther This is part 3 of a 3 part series. Here are links to Part 1 & Part 2. ATG veteran blogger Don Hawkins has edited a well-reviewed book on personal archiving, Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage (Information Today, ISBN...
Mary Ann Liebert, CEO of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., was recently interviewed for the just published issue of The CEO Forum. Click to read below. "It was wonderful to express, in my own words, why I got into scholarly publishing, how my mind works, and what drives me. I...
By Nancy K. Herther (This is Part 1 0f a 2 part article. Here is a link to Part 2.) In the past few years we have heard headlines about the death of print, the death of bookstores, and the rising dominance of online, ebooks and ereading. The same has been said about...
by Nancy K. Herther (This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Click to view part 2) On June 10th, 2015 Librarian of Congress (LnOC) James Hadley Billington announced his decision to retire from his position, noting in a video statement to his staff that “leading this great...
By Nancy K. Herther (Part 2 of a 2 part article. Click to view Part 1.) In the first part of this series we looked at the recent “rebellion” of the editorial board of the journal Lingua to work with a new publisher more inclined to their desire to create a more open...
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES arXiv announces new policy on ChatGPT and similar tools According to the arXiv.org blog "The recent release of AI technology that generates new text has raised serious questions among the research community....
OhioLINK and De Gruyter reach agreement for eBooks from 6 university presses According to KnowledgeSpeak, "OhioLINK and De Gruyter have announced an agreement to provide OhioLINK’s 89 member libraries with newly published frontlist eBooks from University of...
American Society for Microbiology Is Now Using CCC's RightsLink for Scientific Communications According to Information Today, "CCC announced that “the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its...
NORTH OER Librarian, Bentley University, Waltham, MA Data Reference & Collections Librarian - New York University, Division of Libraries – New York, NY Assistant Director, Prospect Research & Management, Salem State University, Salem, MA Research and Teaching...
