Dear Colleague,
The October 2004 issue of Learned Publishing is now available to members
and subscribers on the ALPSP web site.
The very interesting, and sometimes rather unexpected, conclusions from
the ciber study of the attitudes of academic authors are fully set out
in an article by Rowlands, Nicholas and Huntington. Building on that
survey and the earlier one by Swan and Brown, Stephen Pinfield writes on
what he feels universities now want from publishing whilst Kate Worlock
provides a more general overview of the STM publishing market based on
studies carried out by Electronic Publishing Services Ltd.
Kent Anderson describes the measurement of the extent of changing
patterns of usage of the New England Journal of Medicine as print and
on-line versions are both available and Paul Jackson tells how a
professional institution (the IEE) has successfully re-engineered its
provision of information to its members by fully using the flexibility
offered by new media.
Two specific projects are described: the long-standing UTB text-book
collaboration of a group of German publishers and the Canada-based
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication
which offers a modestly-priced self-publishing facility for academic
journals.
Charlie Rapple describes the growing sophistication of reference-linking
and the problems that still need to be resolved to get the maximum
benefit from it.
Wang Shuhua and Wang Hengjun describe the challenges facing university
journals in China as they come to terms with the need to enter more
fully into the international journals community.
In a Guest Editorial Tim Rix gives a rationally up-beat account of the
present state of the university presses, their importance and their
future.
Many thanks
Laura Cox
(For ALPSP)
Managing Director
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