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June 29, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Much is murky in open access, but this at least is clear: academic libraries have committed different amounts of money and staff toward an open-access future, from a flat zero up to hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth. It's the...
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June 24, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
I am bursting with pride to introduce Sarah Shreeves and Elizabeth Brown as co-bloggers here on Book of Trogool! (You'll have to excuse me if I go over my exclamation-point quota. I'm just so excited about this!) I will let...
Posted 5:06 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
There is, in fact, more to life than the California vs. NPG battle royale. I know, I'm surprised too. It's funny because it's true! Daily Life in an Ivory Basement offers the NSF a data-management plan. Along those same lines,...
Posted 4:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 15, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Other people are doing NPG vs. CDL link roundups better than I am, so I'll limit myself to a few links: Think this is a one-off moment of insanity on NPG's part? Bernd-Christoph Kaemper demonstrates the pattern. Steve Lawson of...
Posted 4:01 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
June 11, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
Having inflicted at least one truly Bulwer-Lytton-contest-worthy metaphor on FriendFeed today ("The NPG/CDL thing isn't about open access; open access is just lurking there, kinda like a knife-wielding maniac in a horror movie"), I feel I must raise the stakes...
Posted 4:31 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 10, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
This morning, when Nature Publishing Group responded to the University of California library's broadside, I contemplated taking the response apart piece by piece in a bit of "... translated into English" satire. I'm glad I didn't have the chance. I'm...
Posted 7:15 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 9, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
So I'm turning over the California/NPG situation in my head, because I—okay, because I'm obsessive, are you happy now? (Just don't ask how late I was sending email last night.) The very cynical portion of my brain notes that it's...
Posted 3:52 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 8, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
This is the sort of event I can never, ever manage to predict. Like the Harvard OA mandate. Or the PRISM Coalition. In brief, Nature Publishing Group tried the usual big-publisher contract-renewal tactics: jack the price a lot, because although...
Posted 8:40 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dorothea Salo
Category: Open Access
I'm not a business analyst with my eye on the scholarly publishing industry, but if I were, I'd sound an awful lot like Claudio Aspesi being interviewed by Richard Poynder. I can't speak to Elsevier's internal organizational issues, but the...
Posted 5:00 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
June 4, 2010
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
Another reason it's been quiet around here is that comments haven't been appearing. This was my fault (though I am innocent of any ill intent), and I apologize with all my heart. What happened was this: I was getting quite...
Posted 8:33 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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