...Ramesh Pandita; Shivendra Singh Purpose The study aims to assess the journal packing density (JPD) of the research journals published across different subject discipline at the global level. The concept of JPD is aimed to compute the average number of research articles published per volume or per...

...Margaret Spires Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Future Publishing and Accessibility Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 13-14, 2013. Design/methodology/approach – This report provides a general overview of events at the conference as well...

... of vendors across all exhibition halls and attending a number of special presentations. All empirical data are based on personal observations recorded by journal during and directly after each fair visit. Findings The fair was an excellent chance to learn more about the publishing industry, particularly...

...Mike Freeman Walt   Crawford . The Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing: Helping Patrons and Communities Use Free and Low‐cost Publishing Tools to Tell Their Stories . Medford NJ : Information Today Inc.   2012 . 172 pp.   $49.50 (paperback) , ISBN: 978‐1‐57387‐430‐4 ©...

... in the context of existing studies of librarian motivation, especially those relating to academic publishing and entrepreneurship, as well as the theoretical frameworks of motivation, including those of Maslow and Herzberg. Originality/value Results of the study should be useful to those in the library field...

... and exchange will become relevant factors. At the same time, digitisation is strengthening the situation of authors and other content producers. By consequence, publishers, agents and booksellers are repositioning themselves. Originality/value The Frankfurt Book Fair must always anticipate today what...

... such as publishing. Originality/value The paper makes libraries aware that planning is essential in order to survive in the recession. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Libraries United States of America Recession Publishing Advocacy Americans have lived in excess for far too long...

... how to edit and prepare submitted articles for publication, how to secure financing and how to find a publisher. Findings LIS students are highly enthusiastic about these so‐called project seminars as they offer valuable practical experience that complements skills acquired in other more...

... of knowledge. Who is the fittest for this scholarly communication job? Is it universities and their libraries and university presses, or could it best remain in the hands of global publishing monopolies? In the virtual seminar, an article is published on the Web and evokes a discussion between readers...

... (Newton, 1998). The NBA has certainly not stifled book output, as Table II demonstrates. A total of 18,487 new books were published in 1961 (Barker and Davies, 1966, p. 921) rising to 101,504 in 1996, dipping slightly to 100,029 in 1997. It could be argued that many of these titles must...

... the range of motives that took Brazilian librarians to provide them to their customers. Also analyses the difficulties for collecting and disseminating comic books, with special attention to the characteristics of comic book publishing. The beginning of the organization of special comic book collections...

.... Urges librarians and the print media to embark on newspaper and magazine indexing to ensure accessibility of their contents. Africa Classification Indexes Magazine publishing Newspaper publishing Publishing NEW LIBRARY WORLD Indexing African Newspapers and Magazines Michael Afolabi Department...

...Michael Afolabi Examines the productivity of journals which published articles on library and information sciences on Kenya from 1961 to 1991 to determine the number of articles published by each journal, the core productive journals and authors, the language, subject and title dispersion...

...Toby Burrows Discusses the user pay approach in Australia with particular reference to Government publications. Notes that although the Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS) has been increasing its prices gradually it still provides free deposit copies of all its publications to the State...

... of publishing poetry and that Oxford has been dominant in issuing throughout the twentieth century a series of magisterial anthologies which have gone a long way to establishing the canon of English poetry. Concludes that neither student nor general reader has ever been so well provided with such a wide range...