So, an author pays to make their article Open Access in a hybrid journal
and the publisher makes it open - so anyone can see it, right? Wrong. Well,
often it's wrong, simply because library link resolvers work at the journal
title not article level. That's just one of the issues that Chad Hutchens
covers in his article on metadata - and it's one you can't help feel those
resolvers must indeed resolve, somehow. This is one of several articles in
the issue on important and long-standing issues in journal publishing. We
reproduce a Paula Gantz piece which analyses what difference all those big
and consortia deals have made to how we might view journal pricing. And
Helen Zhang co-authors a survey on how journals view the republishing of
conference papers - a bit of a vexed question for many journals and
publishers. Hans Dillaerts and Ghislaine Charlton tell us about a
collaborative system for charting all the different policies publishers have
on self archiving. Xiang Ren has a piece on the remarkable (at least to me)
state-run system for open publishing in China with many thousands of papers,
Science Paper Online, which goes in for post publication peer review and
then offers a grading system - and it's started a hard-copy version!
But it's not all about journals. Two slightly unusual papers about books:
Pieter Borghart describes a new Belgian system for ascribing a
'peer-reviewed' label for books which seems to be taking off - and it may
catch on elsewhere - but if it does, he wants us to be aware of all the
(undesirable) consequences that have ensued and need to be guarded against;
then Alison Baverstock and colleague report on their research on self
publishing - not, mainly, academic works, but something that could perhaps
spill over into our realm. More on that next issue too. And there's a book
review on a book about the history of .. Books.
Not just books either. Margo Leach and Shaun Hobbs have a paper describing
how an information system, combining published material and human expertise
has been created to provide up-to-date and reliable information on plant
health to developing countries - Plantwise.
Experienced editor Mriganka Awati gives us a list of all the things that
would really help him in his everyday editing tasks, and wants your
suggestions - that's while he figures out what his author means by
'PNA-rocked nucleic acid cramp'. Talking of help, Jilan Sun suggests how
vocabulary extraction techniques can help non-native English speakers get to
grips with foreign language papers.
And, two more book reviews, one quite critical, but the other (mostly)
admiring of Sally Morris (former editor of Learned Publishing) et als' (that
can't be correct punctuation!) Handbook of Journal Publishing.
The editor, ever in iconoclastic or even idiosyncratic mode, has an
editorial based on an old Gershwin song - no, not 'I got plenty of nuttin'',
nor 'I got rhythm', nor even 'I know milk', but it is about love.
All in all, a varied, not to say haphazard, issue, and a very international
one - I hope there's something in there you can enjoy.
See you in three months.
Alan Singleton
Editor-in-Chief
Learned Publishing
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