ONIX: Is there a return on investment for all publishers?     

Endre?L.?BekyEmail author 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,20(2):3-8

Summary What will be the future of ONIX? Some argue that wider industry acceptance will lead to increased efficiencies in the transfer of book data, which will ultimately benefit book sales. ONIX still has to overcome many challenges: its implementation cost is high, whole-salers and aggregators are still using different spreadsheets and information sources. Furthermore, MS Excel as an alternative solution is widely available and accepted by the industry. Small publishers need more education and a straightforward demonstration of ONIX’s return on investment. An outreaching of the helping hand of professional organizations is strongly suggested to foster the adoption process among small players. It is the role of the AAP and BISG to get their memberships to think about what is good for all members as a whole throughout the industry. As an organization BISG can recommend, educate, and promote the standard. It cannot, however, bring pressure or demand organizations use it. Publishers, retailers, and wholesalers make those decisions for themselves and quite apparently the majority do not yet see the rewards. Market players need to determine the cost versus benefit and as long as distributors and retailers agree on receiving other formats, ONIX will never take a strong hold in the marketplace. After all, publishers should compete against each other with good books and not with multiple computer codes.  相似文献   

Science can help cure university presses     

Peter?J.?DoughertyEmail author 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,20(2):33-36

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Grey literature in the life of GESAMP,an international marine scientific advisory body     

Bertrum?H.?MacDonaldEmail author  Ruth?E.?Cordes  Peter?G.?Wells 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,20(1):25-41

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Research on university presses: An overview of UK university presses     

Rachel?Hardy  Charles?OppenheimEmail author 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,20(2):18-31

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Quality of grey literature in the open access era: Privilege and responsibility     

Paola?De?CastroEmail author  Sandra?Salinetti 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,20(1):4-12

Conclusions We are living a deep change in the information transfer process involving the different actors of the editorial scene (from authors to editors, web-editors, e-publishers and readers), who occasionally play different roles at the same time (e.g., authors sometimes bypass the editor thus assuming direct responsibilities in the diffusion of documents in the Internet). Furthermore, information producers, managers or seekers often show twofold personalities like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They would like to find all documents free on the Internet and be able to read original, reliable, and high quality information, but they are sometimes reluctant to spread their papers through online nonofficial channels as they care for the impact factor, prestige, and career advancement. It is a revolutionary period in which new and alternative forms of scholarly communication live together with more traditional ones and the future is difficult to define. Recent initiatives of open access—such as Pubmed Central, Public Library of Science, Budapest Open Access Initiative—are contributing to define new trends in the editorial market, challenging the traditional distribution channels, mainly managed by commercial editors, and placing the authors’ role and publication copyrights under severe discussion. In this landscape, GL now has new dignity and becomes closer and closer to innovative scientific publications supported by researchers in view of a generalised movement towards open access. The nuances of grey are becoming lighter and lighter. The questions are many, the answers few, but, in any case, the ethical responsibility of producing and issuing quality documents can never be disregarded.  相似文献   

Capturing academic grey literature—Starting at home     

Gretta?E.?SiegelEmail author 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,20(1):62-69

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Book industry consolidation and authors’ incomes     

Richard?J.?ButlerEmail author 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,20(2):9-17

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Editorial content and use of technology in the Italian media environment     

Cristina?MussinelliEmail author 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,19(4):54-61

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Marketing marvel: Extending the life of a Scribner’s bestseller     

Lisa?SpiroEmail author 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2004,19(4):3-16

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Frobenius and his Density theorem for primes     

B.?SuryEmail author 《Resonance》2003,8(12):33-41

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