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Content Platform Migrations Cause Headaches. Can We Avoid Some of the Pain?

Libraries and individual subscribers to journals have seen the problems that can occur when a publication moved or was sold from one publisher to another. Perhaps there would be an editorial change, leading to delayed issues. Perhaps all the subscription […]

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 4, 2019
  • 1 Comment

Copyright Transfer As a Click-through – It’s So Easy to Sign Away Your Rights

Click-through agreements are efficient for publishers and software companies to offer, but is it right for this efficiency to cloud the rights picture? Can’t we create systems that are slightly more subtle and customized?

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 6, 2013
  • 11 Comments

Amazon Enhances Its Position in Academic Markets with Launch of Its Whispercast System

Amazon’s new local distribution technology allows academic institutions new levels of control.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 19, 2012
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