Back on Dec. 15, 2011, a law firm librarian posted a warning on law-lib about how anyone who has a credit card or knows the firm’s Land of 10,000 Invoices account number can execute a transaction that will be billed…
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Consumer Advocacy by a Library Association: ALA asserts at Midwinter and in meetings with publishers "you need to deal with libraries and you need to do it as soon as possible"
06
Feb
Recently several elected ALA officers plus an association official and a task force chair met face-to-face with senior executives of Penguin, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Perseus in New York City. At issue was publisher policies and practices…
An Idiot Proof Guide to Creating eBooks
06
Feb
Wait, well, I shouldn’t really call it idiot-proofed because this idiot ran out of time last weekend to confirm that. However, thanks to CALI Director of Content Development Sarah Glassmayer’s eBook Publishing for Dummies post, I can reality check that…
Guide to eBook Collections Identity eBook Providers Features
04
Feb
For the following eBook collection providers: ACLS Humanities E-Book Blackwell Reference Online Books@Ovid Books 24×7 Brill CogNet Ebrary EBSCO e-Books Gutenberg-e Hathi Trust MyiLibrary National Academies Press OECDiLibrary Oxford Reference Online Oxford Scholarship Online Royal Society of Chemistry Ebooks Collection…
Scholars v Elsevier STM in the Court of Public Opinion
03
Feb
Following up on LLB’s post, Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices, see also The Chronicle’s recent article. It reports on Elsevier’s response to the boycott and interviews…
Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices
01
Feb
On Jan. 21, 2012, Timothy Gowers, Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, [web profile; Wikipedia entry] called for boycotting Elsevier because of the Company’s business practices with respect to its…
Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices
01
Feb
On Jan. 21, 2012, Timothy Gowers, Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, [web profile; Wikipedia entry] called for boycotting Elsevier because of the Company’s business practices with respect to its…
RIP pCasebooks, 1871 – 2021: 150 years is a long run but the time is ripe for a change
30
Jan
“From entrenched businesses, such as Wolters Kluwer, to a nonprofit, like the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, there is agreement that physical textbooks and particularly traditional case books will, sooner or later, become educational relics alongside fountain pens and manual…
RIP pCasebooks: 1871 – 2021
30
Jan
“From entrenched businesses, such as Wolters Kluwer, to a nonprofit, like the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, there is agreement that physical textbooks and particularly traditional case books will, sooner or later, become educational relics alongside fountain pens and manual…
Preteens Like eBooks (and some of them will be applying to law school in about ten years)
27
Jan
According to recent surveys connduct by RR Bowker’s PubTrack Consumer in October and November of last year, preteens find eBooks “fun and cool.” Apparently, some are introducted to eBooks in the home when their parents hand down their eReaders after…
