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Mendeley, a Web service that lets users organize and share research papers, recently announced that it has surpassed 100,000 users, and that its database now includes some 8 million works. The announcement has generated a lot of hype for the fledgling company. Mendeley says it is doubling in size every 10 weeks.
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By opening the largest online rental service for scientific, technical, and research journals, the company Deep Dyve is hoping to do for academic publications what Netflix has done for movies: make them easily accessible and inexpensive for everyone.
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The University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh’s College of Business is creating a new type of e-textbook that will give professors more control of their content while also saving students hundreds of dollars in the process.
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Free and open collaborative resource draws scholars from across disciplines.
The proliferation of Web 2.0 social networking Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and even Flickr got some people thinking: Which scholarly disciplines need better ways of researching, collaborating, and communicating, and could a social networking model play a role?
“Bioethics and applied ethics scholars are very interdisciplinary in their work,” said Kate McCready, EthicShare project director at the University of Minnesota, “The departments that most bioethics and applied scholars studied in and received degrees from don’t have the same names as the departments where they now work. They came from philosophy, religious studies, medicine, public health, etc., but now work in ‘bioethics.’”
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Publish a monograph on 19th-century literature and have it reviewed within 90 days of its publication? That’s crazy talk — or was, until the debut of New Books on Literature 19, or NBOL-19. The site, which went live on September 1, is an online-only journal dedicated to reviews of new scholarly books on 19th-century literature. It's edited by James A.W. Heffernan, an emeritus professor of English at Dartmouth College. (Read more about the frustrations that prompted him to test a quick-turnaround editorial model.) Mr. Heffernan put together a team of scholarly reviewers, including graduate students. More than 100 recent monographs have been assigned for review, with 20 or so reviews posted on the site so far. Is this the metabolic fix that the achingly slow world of scholarly reviewing has needed?
[Source : The Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus]
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According to U Penn Wharton faculty who follow the complicated, emotionally fraught subject of how we buy and sell literature, devices such as Amazon’s Kindle and an on-demand book-printing machine called Espresso are helping to upend longstanding customs in the slow-to-change business of book publishing.
[Source: Knowledge @ Wharton]
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Harvard is once again in the news for something besides losing gargantuan amounts of money, with Harvard University Presss recent announcement that it will publish a selection of titles digitally through Scribd. Does Harvards move both the losing money part and the going digital part represent the future of academic publishing?
[Source: Ars Technica]
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The American Chemical Society, which publishes several dozen academic journals, is moving to end print editions and produce journals only online.
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In metabolic terms, publishing in the humanities is more couch potato than sprinter. An idea can take years to move from light-bulb stage to manuscript to finished book. Add another year, or two or three, before an author can expect to see reviews of that book in academic journals. That slows down an already glutted system.
“It’s just appalling that the average gap between publication and first review is more than two years,” says James A.W. Heffernan, an emeritus professor of English at Dartmouth College. In Charles Dickens’s day, he points out, “compositors were able to get whole novels out in a week or two.” Why, in a wired world, should it take 24 months or more for a 1,500-word review to see the light of day?
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required)]
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