The July issue of Learned Publishing is now online. All articles are free to
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editorials, reviews and letters to the Editors, as well as any articles
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This issue is packed with interesting and useful articles by publishers,
librarians, lawyers and others, ranging from journal prices to library
technology, and from Digital Rights Management to the value of the Big Deal.
We are keen to find out what our readers think of the journal - whether you
are a subscriber or not, please take a few minutes to complete the online
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Amazon book voucher!
The Editorial (http://dx.doi.org/
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323901> 10.1087/095315108X323901) looks
at the changes in both scholarly behaviour and scholarly communication which
ought to be preoccupying publishers.
Lawyers Duncan Calow and Rebecca Egan (http://dx.doi.org/
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323857> 10.1087/095315108X323857)
consider the question of whether scholarly publishers need DRM to protect
their content.
Robert Bley, of Ex Libris, gives a useful summary of how library systems are
evolving in the digital era, and what this means for publishers
(http://dx.doi.org/ <http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323910>
10.1087/095315108X323910).
Librarians Françoise Vandooren and Cécile Gass offer an intriguing case
study of how the library and university press at the Free University of
Brussels have collaborated to put out-of-print books online
(http://dx.doi.org/ <http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323811>
10.1087/095315108X323811).
Contrary to some authors’ views, librarian Terry Bucknell has clear evidence
that Big Deals provide excellent value for money. He explains how the
University of Liverpool has made use of usage statistics to establish the
undoubted value of its Big Deals (http://dx.doi.org/
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323893> 10.1087/095315108X323893).
Claire Bird provides a useful summary and some up-to-date statistics on
Oxford Journals’ experience in both full and hybrid OA publishing
(http://dx.doi.org/ <http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X288910>
10.1087/095315108X288910).
Two more lawyers, Bridget Noonan and Debra Parrish, have analysed
occurrences of editorial ‘expressions of concern’ about articles on which
there is an as yet unresolved question (http://dx.doi.org/
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X288857> 10.1087/095315108X288857);
this is clearly a useful tool which journal editors could employ more
widely.
Claire Creaser and Sonya White, of LISU, report on a detailed analysis of
trends in journal prices from 11 leading publishers between 2000 and 2006
(http://dx.doi.org/ <http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323866>
10.1087/095315108X323866).
John Regazzi and Selenay Aytac, of the Scholarly Communications Lab at Long
Island University, have carried out a small study of the attributes which
are important to authors in evaluating the quality of different journals in
which to publish (http://dx.doi.org/
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X2889380> 10.1087/095315108X2889380).
Last but not least, there are two book reviews in this issue: OA publisher
Paul Peters (Hindawi) on David Solomon’s Guide to ‘Developing Open Access
Journals’ (http://dx.doi.org/ <http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323929>
10.1087/095315108X323929), and Charles Oppenheim (Loughborough University)
on Christine Borgman’s ‘Scholarship in the Digital Age’ (http://dx.doi.org/
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323938> 10.1087/095315108X323938).
With this issue, we bid farewell both to Priscilla Markwood as North
American Editor and to Charles Oppenheim as Reviews Editor; both have done
a fantastic job over the past couple of years. Their successors are Janet
Fisher and Pippa Smart respectively.
Sally Morris, Editor-in-Chief ([log in to unmask])
Priscilla Markwood, North American Editor ([log in to unmask])
Sally Morris
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