A research report on direct-to-consumer marketing is provided here. The study was first announced on the Scholarly Kitchen. The report includes a survey of current university press practices and recommendations for steps to take to improve performance.
A look back at some of Rick Anderson’s insightful pieces on the economic realities of journal prices and library budgets.
A startling new breakthrough in reading technology from an unlikely source.
The competition among the largest journal publishers to acquire the rights to professional society publications is very keen. The bidding for these publications is likely to result in an alteration of strategy, whereby the bidding publishers seek to bind the societies more closely to them.
More and more studies are emerging showing how misdirecting and expanding citations can lead to long-term misconceptions and mistaken belief systems in the sciences.
An overview of Vox, a news site designed around current technology and information trends offers a fresh set of design choices worth considering.