Children's publishing in Canada has a relatively short history. The first full-colour Canadian children's book was published in 1968[1]) but the literature has grown steadily, bloomed, and thrived....
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Monica Miller | 9 December 2015 | PUB 800, Fall 2015 | Simon Fraser University, Master of Publishing
It seems every few months there is another story about a self-published author getting a huge ...
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If You Can Read this Article then it Has Been Published on Your Domain via Your API for Review by Author as DMOZ Editor/WordPress Core Dev. Often we need to vigorously check quality, bugs, backdoor...
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Summary: To encourage each other to do better science, my lab has put together a checklist of goals and guidelines for scientific papers. Our focus is on encouraging best practices for open science...
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Introduction
It is well known that
the fund of knowledge of what it is now known as Graphic Design has been
assembled from many other disciplines. On the one hand, it is possible to talk
about sub...
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When
we think of how technology has changed the way of living for billions of
people, one industry that adapts to the ever-growing technological world would
be the retail industry. The newspaper ma...
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There are a few different ways that an
author can make money through digital publishing without actually selling their
content directly to consumers. For example authors can publish writing on
blog...
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By the Book—Publishing as an Art World: An Examination of a Cultural Industry
Monica Miller
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
CMNS 480: Communication Networks in Art
Instructor: ...
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Originally posted here by Marcus Banks. Re-blogged in verbatim with permission to do so.
Following Aaron Swartz's tragic suicide in 2013, there was a brief flurry of attempts to honor his legacy by...
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Ten ‘Personal’ Reasons why I am skeptical about Open Access
(OA): Thoughts of an Individual Researcher
Although a great deal
of hurdles are overcome with so many ‘models’ of Open Access (OA), ...
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Digital natives, the generations that have been born since the
1980s, have grown up in a world where vacation plans are researched and
reserved online and books can be downloaded to a tablet in an ...
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The following questions and answers
are adapted from the session “When Publishers Aren’t Getting It Done,” part of
the Association of American University Presses annual meeting.
Moderator: Neil
Ch...
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Over the past few years a vast range of cloud-based scholarly communication tools have been added to the researcher's toolkit. The timeline developed by Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer at Utrecht ...
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The first academic journal was created by Henry Oldenburg (1619--1677), first Secretary of the Royal Society. Rather than wait years for scientists to publish their findings in books, Oldenburg wan...
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We are, as a culture, obsessed with counting things. From the number of "likes" and "followers" we have to the number of "retweets" and "shares" we get. It's how we measure our popularity and in ...
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Reading something new Every once in a while, it is healthy for established concepts and standard procedures to be challenged by ideas that come from outside the discipline's specialist field. They ...
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Clay Shirky's widely
quoted observation that publishing is now “just a button” has divided opinion
in among academics. The confusion is due to pun on the word “publishing”, which
in academic cir...
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Part 2 from a 2-part series reflecting on lessons learned from OpenCon 2014.
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- Stephen J. Ceci
- Douglas P. Peters
How the project was initiated. In 1978, one of us (SJC) was a newly hired assistant professor of psychology at the University of North Dakota, and the other one us (DPP) was in his fourt...
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Introduction
Publishing and fast food are, on the
surface, two very different industries. One sells books, the other food, and
the way they do it is very different. Fast food customers must go to
...
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Within
the last 20 years, technology has influenced many aspects of both the
publishing and the pharmaceutical industries. Yes, these industries may be
incredibly different from each other, but the...
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The
traditional publishing model has been underperforming for small authors for
several years now as writers test out the waters of self-publishing. New models
have risen in popularity to help auth...
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This paper describes a case
study of how the University of Edinburgh gathered information about open access
Article Processing Charges (APCs) that were paid by its affiliated academic
authors, with...
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Despite science being a beacon of innovation,
invention and new ideas, the process of scientific publication has remained
relatively unchanged for the past 250 years (Spier, 2002). Since 1752, the...
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It
is commonly accepted that there is a crisis of reproducibility in science
[1]. But how can this trend be reversed when bibliometrics such as the
h-index tend to encourage quantity and increment...
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ResearchGate - wow, a social network for scientists and researchers you might think. But think again about the 'wow'. At least I am not so impressed. Here's why...
I once created a profile on Resea...
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One issue that I've been following for a number of years is so called MegaJournals.
Mega journal as defined on Wikipedia.
Cue ' Open Access and The Dramatic Growth of PLoS ONE' which I wrote for th...
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Preprints have become a popular topic of
conversation among publishers, researchers, funders, librarians, technology
builders, and service providers. Their attention is spurring explorations into
b...
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