... The paper encourages libraries to build on their history of cooperation and extend it by linking their repositories, using their own strengths to battle excessive subscription fees, and become publishers in their own right. Practical implications Consortia are encouraged to work together to build...

...Nana Tuhufo Quagraine; Baffour Ohene Agyekum Purpose The lack of a country-wide data on the extent to which academic librarians in Ghana publish combined with perceived publishing challenges as indicated by a number of scholars including Opoku (2012) leaves much to be desired. Therefore...

...Amanda Cossham John P. Feather The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change (6th ed.) London Facet 2013 218 pp. 9781856048187 £49.95 (paperback) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Information society Publishing Information...

...; and, has clearly thought through and reflected on the various factors at play in the complex environment of scholarly communication and publishing.. Scholarly Communications for Librarians is a very readable book and one, which deserves to be read not only by librarians but by all who have...

...Assimina Vlachaki; Christine Urquhart Purpose The purpose of this research project is to explore the impact of open access initiatives on biomedical research scientific publishing and scholarly communication in Greece. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents the preliminary findings...

... of disruptive technologies to academic libraries, higher education and the academic publishing industry. The way universities are organised and how they operate could change radically; scholarly communication could be transformed, placing academic publishers at risk; academic libraries may become irrelevant...

... and funded. Looks at the future of scholarly publishing, the “Internet solution”, and the reactions to the new technology of commercial publishers and many other stakeholders in academia. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Information management Publishers Publishing Dissemination...

... members) US$44.50 others © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Publishing Quality control I was especially interested to read this book. I edit a journal, of which only a proportion of articles are refereed; I have done a great deal of refereeing for other journals; I am on the editorial boards...

...Ray Irving; Cathy Smith Describes and discusses the publishing programme undertaken by the Institute of Management’s Information Centre, including the reasons for setting up the programme, the use of resources and the benefits and drawbacks. Argues that many information and library services have...