[GOAL] Informa.plc - Taylor and Francis no-embargo for LIS journals

2013-03-27 Thread Heather Morrison
In response to a post on the mass resignation of the Journal of Library Administration, Informa.plc, the multinational conglomerate working under its scholar-friendly-sounding brand "Taylor & Francis", posted this note about self-archiving: "Under our LIS pilot program, authors can freely post

[GOAL] Public Knowledge Project releases Open Monograph Press version 1.0

2013-03-27 Thread Omega Alpha | Open Access
Public Knowledge Project releases Open Monograph Press version 1.0 In a press release dated March 26, 2013 on its website, Public Knowledge Project annou

[GOAL] Novlangue

2013-03-27 Thread BAUIN Serge
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novlangue Mot très usité en France pour critiquer les autorités (journalistes, gouvernement, publicitaires, grandes entreprises (nicknamed « world companies ») Newspeak is the original in Orwell’s 1984 novel… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak Cordialement Serge

[GOAL] Is scholarly publishing going from crisis to crisis?

2013-03-27 Thread Stephen Pinfield
You may be interested in the following Point of View piece in the latest issue of Learned Publishing: Pinfield, S. (2013) Is scholarly publishing going from crisis to crisis? Learned Publishing , 26 (2), 85-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20130204. E-print available at: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.u