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Economics and the Periodicals Price Survey of 2018
Flat budgets, price increases, and a reliance on status journals for tenure and promotion keep familiar pressures on the serials marketplace. Sound familiar? Here is a Library Journal blog post about spending on and by some libraries. Continue reading
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Oh No! Not MORE Amazon!
It looks like Amazon is getting into the peer-review business and they will even use AI to make sure the reviews are authentic. Take a look. Continue reading
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The Other Side of the Coin?
Publishers Weekly has an interesting story about some big publishers and how 2017 treated them. I admit I have never given much thought to how slow and/or flat sales might impact publishers. Luckily someone can make me with just a blog post. Continue reading
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The Future of Legal Publishing
There was a very interesting post this week on Slaw, Canada’s online legal magazine. For a discussion on trends in legal and professional publishing see Robert McKay, The Future of Legal Publishing. Margie Maes AALL Vendor Liaison mmaes@aall.org Continue reading
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Information has value
ACRL recently released its Final Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. It reminds us that users, whether college students or not, start with the perception that information is “free” and lack understanding of how personal information is being commodified.The third frame – “Information has value” – addresses the complex values associated with information by… Continue reading
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