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<p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>A Most Timely And Must-Read New Book: The State of
Scholarly Publishing<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>The State of Scholarly Publishing<span style='color:#1F497D'>:
</span> Challenges and Opportunities / Albert N. Greco, Editor / $34.95 /
ISBN: 978-1-4128-1058-6 / Pages: 292 / Publication Date: 06/30/09 / Binding:
Paper / Transaction Publishers.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>For decades, university presses and other scholarly and
professional publishers in the United States played a pivotal role in the
transmission of scholarly knowledge. Their books and journals became the “gold
standard” in many academic fields for tenure, promotion, and merit pay. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Yet this insulated world changed abruptly in the late 1990s.
What happened? <b>This book contains a superb series of articles originally
published in The Journal of Scholarly Publishing, by some of the best experts
on scholarly communication in the western hemisphere, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
These authors analyze in depth the diverse and exciting challenges and
opportunities scholars, universities, and publishers face in what is a period
of unusual turbulence in scholarly publishing</b>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The topics given attention include: copyrights, the
transformation of scholarly publishing from a print format to a digital one,
open access, scholarly publishing in emerging nations, problems confronting
journals, and information on how certain academic disciplines are coping with
the transformation of scholarly publishing. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>This book is a must read for anyone interested in the
scholarly publishing industry’s past, its current focus, or future plans and
developments.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Partial Table Of Contents<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Scribble, scribble, toil and trouble : forced productivity
in the modern university / William W. Savage, Jr -- Scholarly journal
publication : conflicting agendas for scholars, publishers, and institutions /
Cass T. Miller and Julianna C. Harris -- Scholarship and silence / Lindsay
Waters -- The futures of scholarly publishing / Cathy N. Davidson -- The
changing market for university press books in the U.S., 1997-2002 / Albert N.
Greco, Robert M. Wharton, and Hooman Estelami -- [more]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>More And Image At <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qfoyxu">http://tinyurl.com/qfoyxu</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Happy Monday !!!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gerry McKiernan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Science and Technology Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Iowa State University Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ames IA 50011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:gerrymck@iastate.edu">gerrymck@iastate.edu</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has
Come / Victor Hugo <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[ <a
href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490">http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490</a>
]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind
Blows<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[ <a href="http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/">http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/</a>
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