...Ryan M. Allen Purpose The academic community has warned that predatory journals may attempt to capitalize on the confusion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to further publish low quality academic work, eroding the credibility of scholarly publishing. Design/methodology/approach This article...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Reviewing process Publishing Peer review A highlight in researchers' lives is the second they can hit the button “submit manuscript”. It is the last step of having collected and analyzed data and having put everything together in an article...

... the energy costs and ecological impact. Transmitting digital content takes no additional energy after the discovery process. For paper copies, the transport of published materials to libraries consumes energy, as does the transportation of readers to the library, except in those happy cases where they can...

...Terri Geitgey Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe one university library's use of the Espresso Book Machine® (EBM), an innovative publishing technology that provides new options for matching content delivery to user needs. The paper aims to provide insight into the University...

...Michael Seadle Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate: how many journal titles are both in LOCKSS and in Portico?; what is the relationship of small publishers to LOCKSS/CLOCKSS and Portico?; and what is the relationship of large publishers to LOCKSS/CLOCKSS and Portico? Design...

...Luisa Doldi Manfred H.   Breede . The Brave New World of Publishing: The Symbiotic Relationship between Printing and Book Publishing . Oxford : Chandos Publishing   2008 . 194 pp. , ISBN: 1843344394   Soft cover Chandos Series on Publishing © Emerald Group Publishing...

... at least some potential for new cooperation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Copyright law Internet Publishing This reply builds on existing legislation that grants exemptions that libraries and museums have used so cautiously that they might almost not be in the law...

...Bradford Lee Eden; Michael Seadle Purpose This column looks at which rights matter, how to retain them, and which journal publishers already cooperate. Design/methodology/approach It uses the requirements of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, and examines the Creative Commons licences...

... and future direction of research libraries and their institutions that will lead to e‐scholarship. The agenda included: new challenges and services of academic libraries: scholarly publishing and the implication on future strategies for scholars, libraries and publishers; the potential of search engine...

... to the provisions of subsection (e), the owner of copyright or of the exclusive right of publication in a work published in the United States shall deposit, within three months after the date of such publication – (1) two complete copies of the best edition; or (2) if the work is a sound recording, two complete...

... of publishers and vendors are enabling these technologies. Background, benefits, issues, projects, and employment of reference‐linking are examined to provide an overview of the current state of reference‐linking. A sampling of industry players is queried to obtain a variety of perspectives. The information...

...Michael Seadle Not all commercial publishers are alike. Of the many epithets thrown at the commercial publishers of academic works, “greedy” ranks as the most common. But for journals facing serious competition, like Library Hi Tech, the pricing strategies tend to conform to market...

...Steve O’Connor The function of this article is to examine both the current state of scholarly communication and its prospects. Among the issues to be examined are the viability of the present model of scholarly publishing, the cost of the delivery of unit articles and the difficulty of assigning...

...Anne Christie This article sets out to highlight how new technologies have changed the way publishers and other information providers are able to deliver services. Publishers are rethinking their role and taking a fresh look at how they can meet the needs of customers. Universities, libraries...

... suggest the possible demise of libraries, it is incumbent on us to make a revolutionary response. Part of that response should be making accessible to the public the vast stores of hidden information and knowledge that lie beyond the purview of conventional publishers. Creating local online databases...