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....
Read ItMonica 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 ...
Read ItIf 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...
Read ItSummary: 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...
Read ItIntroduction 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...
Read ItWhen 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...
Read ItThere 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...
Read ItBy 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: ...
Read ItOriginally 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...
Read ItTen ‘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), ...
Read ItDigital 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 ...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItOver 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 ...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItWe 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 ...
Read ItReading 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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Read ItHow 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...
Read ItIntroduction 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 ...
Read ItWithin 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...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItThis 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...
Read ItDespite 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...
Read ItIt 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...
Read ItResearchGate - 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...
Read ItOne 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...
Read ItPreprints 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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