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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: March 2014
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Informa (Taylor and Francis, Routledge) academic publishing profits up for 2013: 35% profit margin. Informa.plc is the multinational conglomerate owner of scholarly-sounding brands "Taylor and Francis" and Routledge). The 2013 Informa annual report is now out. What if the academic publishing arm of informa were to reduce its profit level to a very healthy profit rate of 20%, instead of 35%? Links to this post. The Reed Elsevier annual re...
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: mBio: a good model for language explaining what's covered by noncommercial use
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Thursday, May 21, 2015. MBio: a good model for language explaining what's covered by noncommercial use. Has excellent language on their website http:/ mbio.asm.org/site/misc/authors.xhtml. ASM publishes mBio articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Noncommercial reuse is defined as use that is not intended for or directed toward commercial advantage. This would include the following:. Commercial reuse applie...
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: December 2014
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. 2014 Dramatic Growth of Open Access: 30 indicators of growth beyond the ordinary. And not get caught up in the minutiae of implementation. Although the focus of this series is the numbers, a special mention to an exceptional open access policy recently announced by India's departments of Biotechnology and Science and Technology. Which represents a new model OA policy for the whole world. The libraries collaborating on the Electronic...
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Growth in CC-BY: numbers and critique.
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Growth in CC-BY: numbers and critique. According to a recent post by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. 543,611 articles were published by open access-only journal using CC-BY licenses between 2000 and 2014, with 141,232 of these articles published in 2014 alone. It is wonderful to see the growth of open access publishing, and kudos to these journals publishing with what they believe is the best license for open access.
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: November 2014
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Friday, November 14, 2014. France chooses publisher profits over academic jobs. Updated Nov. 14, 2014 - correction of calculation of academic positions. According to a leak of the France-Elsevier deal. How big is the problem? If readers have citations to data on academic salaries and/or employment in France, that would be helpful. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sustaining the knowledge commons. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. View my complete profile.
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: April 2014
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Thursday, April 24, 2014. Elsevier journals - some facts. Timothy Gowers' excellent post. Details his research looking for Elsevier pricing mechanisms and actual prices paid by university libraries through FOI requests. Lots of useful data noted here for future number-crunching. Links to this post. Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Would Elsevier's Universal Access in the US raise Elsevier profits to 98.6%. Brian Matthews at Ubiquitous Librarian. Links to this post.
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: May 2014
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Thursday, May 22, 2014. Ontario: let's prioritize our universities, our youth and our future. Not, I argue, a society that is thinking about its future. Let us all acknowledge and take responsibility for the next and coming generations. Links to this post. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. The variability of the open access article processing charge. But even in this most straightforward case, the list fees are listed in three different currencies, and the actual fee for a...
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Information et societé: Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition
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Friday, October 17, 2014. Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition. Une des revues savantes en libre accès publiées avec l'assistance de l'Université d'Ottawa est le Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition. Ici on trouve un appel à contributions. Pour le 8e volume en 2015 sur le sujet de Médias multiculturels et intégration des immigrants . Il y a une rédactrice invitée de l'Université d’Ottawa, Dr. Rukhsana Ahmed. Sont une super façon d'achever la vision de Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Simple th...
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Information et societé: Autres ressources professionels
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Thursday, September 11, 2014. Corporation des bibliothécaires professionels du Québec http:/ www.cbpq.qc.ca/. Association pour l’avencement des sciences et des techniques du documentation. Http:/ www.asted.org/. Association des bibliothécaires professionnel(le)s du Nouveau-Brunswick http:/ www.aplnb-abpnb.ca/FR Accueil.html. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Heather Morrison is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa's École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies.
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: table of contents
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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Saturday, January 01, 2005. The Table of Contents is updated frequently. The post is backdated so that it does not appear with current posts. Happy 2012 Open Access Movement! December 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access. Open access to save costs for teaching and learning. A Creative Commons discussion item. Noncommercial means noncommercial: Creative Commons discussion. Journals with good Creative Commons models. To everyone, with love. Storing all personal...