In honor of @FakeElsevier hitting the benchmark of having more followers than the real Elsevier Twitter account, here’s a selection of “fake publisher” tweets to enjoy. http://storify.com/M_Publishing/publishing-lulz [<a href=”http://storify.com/M_Publishing/publishing-lulz” target=”_blank”>View the story “Publishing Lulz” on Storify</a>]
Posts By: Meredith Kahn
Peter Brantley: “Digital Books and Flying Cars: Libraries as Collateral Damage” Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Library Gallery, Room 100 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Peter Brantley will discuss today’s changing publishing environment, and why actions of publishers are rational, even as they threaten to destroy traditional models of library book lending. Brantley will also offer a few conjectures about library responses to these changes: In an incredibly short period of time, control…
Join us this Thursday, March 8 for a lunchtime screening of “Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia.” This 2010 documentary film covers the history and influence of Wikipedia and asks questions about truth, neutrality, accuracy, and knowledge in the age of collaborative editing. “Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia” Thursday, March 8 12:00PM – 1:30PM 2160 Shapiro Undergraduate Library This event is sponsored by the U-M Library, Open.Michigan, and Michigan Wikipedians in celebration of…
ACRL’s Digital Curation Interest Group is sponsoring a series of upcoming webinars that might be of interest to fans of digital publishing and preservation. Sessions are open to everyone, though spots are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is not required. MPublishing’s own Kevin Hawkins (head of Digital Publishing Production) will be speaking about “Digital Curation of Text” on Thursday, March 15 at 1PM EST: How is digital curation different from digital preservation? Some…
University of Michigan’s provost Phil Hanlon, along with his counterparts in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, recently expressed their support for open access in a piece for Inside Higher Ed. In their statement, the provosts of the eleven CIC institutions voiced their concerns about restrictive legislation like HR 3699 (the Research Works Act) and their disappointment in the academic publishers (Elsevier being perhaps the most talked about example, but by no means the only one)…
How many of us in the world of libraries or publishing have heard friends or family members casually assert that “everything is online” or that “print books are obsolete” thanks to their newly acquired Kindle or Nook? If you’ve ever found yourself struggling for an incisive response, this post (“Why Your Printed Book Isn’t an E-Book [Yet]”) from the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Lingua Franca blog lays out the issues quite nicely. According to Carol…
Mathematician Timothy Gowers recently started a project to allow academics to publicly pledge that they will not publish in Elsevier journals, serve as referees, or do editorial work for Elsevier publications. The list of signatures has grown quickly, including a number of individuals affiliated with the University of Michigan. Gowers explains his reasoning for the project in a detailed blog post. The boycott has also received coverage in Forbes, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and…
We are pleased to announce that Jason Colman and Jonathan McGlone will be joining Digital Publishing Production (a unit of MPublishing) as Digital Publishing Project Managers beginning January 30. Digital Publishing Production manages both the work and the relationships of ongoing digital publication projects, including journal production and publication, as well as backlist conversion for ACLS Humanities e-books and the University of Michigan Press. The DPP team is also involved in the work of planning…
In December the University of Michigan Library responded to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Request for Information on public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded research. MLibrary has now made this response available online [PDF]. In the response, Paul Courant makes a strong statement about the importance of public access to such publications: [I]t seems unthinkable that work paid for with taxpayer monies is not already freely…
Story Collider, a live show and podcast about science, is coming to Ann Arbor. Story Collider is an evening of personal stories about science in a relaxed setting–think The Moth, but for science. This session will focus on “openness” (open source, open science, open everything). Date & time: January 26, 2012 @ 7PM Where: BTB Cantina, 1140 South University Sponsored by: Ann Arbor District Library, Open.Michigan, and the Medical School Office of Enabling Technologies For more information…