Earlier in November Bookbuilders of Boston hosted the annual New England Publishing Collaboration Awards or NEPCo Awards. Cenveo Publisher Services and the Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division received the audience choice award.
Read MoreThe New England Publishing Collaboration (NEPCo) Awards recognizes collaborative publishing achievements and educates a new generation of publishing leaders. NEPCo recently selected iPROSE: 40 Years of Excellence in Scholarly Publishing as a finalist for its prestigious award.
Read MoreAt the 2016 Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting, the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University brought together a team of science fiction authors, scholars, digital publishers, journalists, and technologists to write a book on the fly in 72 hours.
Read MoreBehind that expensive textbook your college kids just charged, is a team of writers, editors, instructional designers, graphic designers, developers, compositors, marketers, and more.
Read MoreRetraction Watch recently discussed why PLOS ONE's correction rate is higher than average---authors do not review page proofs.
Everyone in scholarly publishing understands that mistakes are made along the publishing process and the bright side of digital publishing allows for quick redaction and updates to scholarly papers. However, when correction rates are higher than what's typically considered acceptable, which is about 1.5%, it's time to look into the workflow to determine what exactly is going on.
Read MoreAt the Society for Scholarly Publishing's 38th Annual Meeting a group of dedicated writers, editors, technologists, and publishers are contributing to a real-time collaboration to write the "future of scholarly publishing." The Book Sprint project is led by Arizona State University’s (ASU) Center for Science and the Imagination, who developed the project.
Read MoreFor many years I preached the merits of XML-first and XML-early workflows before it was the norm. Now my platform is "good vs valid XML."
Any service provider can provide XML.
Indeed automated XML is pretty much a standard output from most systems that have anything to do with publishing. It's been 13 years since Microsoft Office introduced the XML formats for Excel and Word files.
Read MoreIn August 2016, Crossref will enable members to assign Crossref DOIs to preprints. This is major news for the scholarly publishing community and an example of how the needs and practices of modern researchers impact change. Previously, Crossref's policy prevented members from registering and assigning DOIs to "duplicative works." However, in the creation and dissemination of scholarly content today, users have a real need to access earlier versions of research papers.
Read MoreAlice Meadows, Director of Community Engagement with ORCID is interviewed at the London Book Fair. Hear her thoughts on the future of scholarly publishing.
Read MoreIn 1976, the PSP Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) established the PSP Awards for Excellence, with the R.R. Hawkins Award as its top prize. Recognizing the very best in professional and scholarly publishing, the PSP Awards sought to bring attention to distinguished works across a broad spectrum of scholarship. Now recognized as the PROSE Awards, PSP recently released an interactive digital publication honoring its rich 40-year history.
Read MoreScholarly publishing consultants Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger recently published the report, "How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications." This report should be required reading for those in the scholarly publishing industry! The result of an impressive large-scale survey of readers of scholarly publications (n=40,439) and their behavior in the discovery of journal articles and online books, this report provides a rich resource of user interaction and trends over 10 years.
Read MoreWhen books are your business and your joy, you recognize that bringing digital content to market enriches lives and shapes future generations. From March 7 to 9, publishing executives will gather in New York at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo. Will you be there?
Read MoreThree publishers have required ORCID iDs for their authors---eLife, PLOS, and The Royal Society. Even more publishers will make this a requirement in the coming months. All great news for the adoption of this important industry standard. As more connections are established between publishers, authors, funders, and service providers the scholarly industry as a whole benefits.
Read MoreLike other human languages, math uses agreed-upon symbols and syntax to represent abstractions, allowing one person to convey meaning to someone else. In the past, publishers have used carefully designed type reproductions of formulas to communicate mathematical concepts. While these were more difficult (and costly) than simple typesetting, they required no special technology to render math as ink on paper.
Read MoreAt Cenveo Publisher Services, we created The Publisher's Office based on 130+ years' experience with society and association publishers. The Publisher's Office provides full-service editorial and production management for journal publishers. By providing product, technology, and service combined with editorial and author/editor support, our mission is to promote organizations as recognized leaders in their publishing field.
Read MoreWhen apps came to market, a new vocabulary had to be understood by publishing staff, including those in management, editorial, product development, marketing, sales, and all the vendors that serve them. The nuance between the terms “mobile,” “digital,” “apps,” and the variety of features available is clearer now than it was a few years ago, but publishers still strive to deliver the experiences customers expect at a price point that’s profitable for them and reasonable to customers.
Read MoreALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishing) recently released a video with highlights from the 2015 conference. The ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing was presented to Michael Jubb, the Director of Research Information Network. This award honors a scholar for his/her longstanding achievements and commitment towards or service to the scholarly publishing community. Jubb has had a distinguished career in research policy, funding, and administration and is regarded as one of the UK’s leading experts in scholarly communications.
Read MoreLast week the Harvard Law School Library announced the launch of its "Free the Law" initiative, a massive project that involves digitizing approximately 40 million pages of court decisions from the Harvard Law Library to create a searchable repository. The Harvard librarians are scanning all the pages from its vast collection in order to create a searchable database of American case law. With the exception of the Library of Congress, no other collection contains nearly every state, federal, territorial and tribal judicial decision since colonial times!
Read MoreOur second Lunch & Learn is happening December 2. Industry thought leaders and publishing executives will discuss innovation, trends, and publishing solutions that they deem relevant. The goal is that everyone will leave with tangible take-aways to implement in their publishing programs.
Read MoreContent wants to be found and consumed - but discoverability and accessibility doesn’t happen by accident. With the exponential proliferation of content and its many delivery methods, it’s more important than ever that publishers think deeply about content architecture and workflow processes that best support product strategy.
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