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The STM Report: An Overview of Scientific and Scholarly Journal Publishing
STM recently published The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing, providing an overview of trends in scholarly STM publication, including information on open access...
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Google, The Web, and the Future Roles of Publishers and Librarians
Last week, Information Today published the notes from a forum hosted by the iSchool at Drexel entitled “Google, the Web, and the Future Roles of Publishers and Librarians“. Speakers and...
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News Corp, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post Thinking of Pulling News from Google
An interesting thread of news, which began earlier this month with News Corp / Rupert Murdoch suggesting in an interview that they will pull their news from Google, continued today with stories that...
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2 Changes to How Google Delivers News
For those who didn’t catch it yesterday, the next 2 steps in the current Google-News Corp (and other publishers) saga: The first is that the Google “First Click Free” program is now more like “First...
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Confirmed: NYT to start charging for content, starting 2011
What has been rumored for awhile is now official: Next year (2011), the New York Times is going to implement a model where “frequent readers” will have to start paying for content. Essentially, this...
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A Bad Omen: After Three Months, 35 Subscribers (NY Newsday)
Following on the heels of the NY Times decision to go to the pay model, an interesting blurb today about the results of another New York paper, New York Newsday. Apparently after three months, $4...
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Wall Street Journal Pro Edition (WSJ + Factiva) Now Available for Consumers...
Today, Dow Jones made available to consumers the WSJ Professional Edition (currently available at a 4 week free trial). This includes news coverage and analysis from the WSJ, more than 17,000 global...
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What are the Most Important Medical Journals? (from librarians & doctors)
Passing along a link from the SLA Biomedical & Life Sciences Division, which compared the most important medical journals as rated by both doctors (by specialty) and librarians (DBIO), as well as...
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Starbucks, free access to NYT, WSJ, and USA Today
A few months back (coincidentally the same time as SLA Annual), Starbucks announced that not only were they allowing unlimited free wi-fi, but that they were going to launch the Starbucks Digital...
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Cutting journal subscriptions or cutting databases? – a user study from...
In the current environment of tightening budgets and increased vendor costs, libraries often have to make a decision on what to cut, a decision that often pits journal subscriptions against database...
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