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March
24, 2004
eScholarship
Repository Reaches 1,200 Papers
The California Digital
Library's eScholarship Repository (http://www.repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship),
a free resource which offers University of California faculty a central
location for depositing working papers, technical reports, research
results, datasets with commentary and peer-reviewed series, has reached
several major milestones. They are: the Repository now has 1,200 papers;
users have logged 60,000 full-text downloads; and nearly 100 UC institutes,
departments, research units and centers from nine UC campuses have joined.
The eScholarship Repository is at the vanguard of a movement to disseminate
scholarly materials at low or no cost over the Internet.
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Thomson Launches
New Program
The Thomson Corporation
launched a new program that helps students and instructors get the most
from required textbooks and course materials through technology-enabled
tools. Under the new program, called First Class In-Service, a Thomson
representative visits classrooms at the beginning of each term to provide
demonstrations of the key features of technology-based course materials
to instructors and students. To date, Thomson has successfully conducted
more than 400 in-service programs, training more than 152,000 students
on the technology-based course materials that accompany their texts.
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Blackboard Launches
New Project
Blackboard, Inc.,
a provider of enterprise software applications to the education industry,
has partnered with Pearson Education, Houghton-Mifflin and Thomson Higher
Education to develop a new project called "Chalkbox". Chalkbox will
integrate the companies' most popular e-Learning applications into the
Blackboard Learning System. The products are currently in development.
Specific release dates for the new products will be announced later
this year.
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Top Medical,
Scientific Societies Commit to Providing Free Access to Research
Representatives
from the nation's leading not-for-profit medical/scientific societies
and publishers released Washington DC Principles for Free Access to
Science — a statement representing 48 not-for-profit publishers
and over 600,000 scientists and clinicians — with a commitment
to provide free access and wide dissemination of published research
findings.
The DC Principles
provide what has been called the needed "middle ground" in the increasingly
heated debate between those who advocate immediate unfettered online
access to medical and scientific research findings and advocates of
the current journal publishing system. The document was drafted in response
to recent claims that these publishers' practices hinder the public's
ability to access published scientific research. Visit http://www.dcprinciples.org/statement.htm
to read the full statement.
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"Beyond
the Book" Takes Chicago Writers on a Trip to the Future
At DePaul's Loop
Campus, Writing Conference Is All Business for Journalists, Authors
& Academics
When it comes to
gardening or carpentry, holding to traditional practices may be endearing.
But for writers and the entire media industry, there is no attraction
to living in the past.
"Beyond the
Book," a conference on the business of writing to be held on Monday,
May 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. at DePaul University's downtown Loop Campus,
One East Jackson Blvd., offers insights and information for authors
and freelance journalists to seek out sustainable ways to reach new
audiences and new markets. Notable Chicago area writers appearing on
the panel include Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg; DePaul
University's Laura Hartman; poet and biographer Barry Silesky; and relationship
counselor John D. Moore.
"Changes in
publishing technology and shifts in 'content consumption' by readers
have led newspapers and book publishers to seek out innovative ways
of reaching new audiences and markets," notes Christopher Kenneally,
Copyright Clearance Center's Director of Author Relations. "Writers,
too, face a host of challenges from such changes. Our panel will share
with Chicago journalists and authors the building blocks of a business
plan for the future."
The latest in an
ongoing conference series, "Beyond the Book" is presented
by Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world's largest licensing agent
for text reproduction rights (www.copyright.com).To
register, go online to authors.copyright.com,
or call toll-free 800-982-3887, ext. 2420. The program fee ($25.00)
includes a post-conference networking reception from 4 to 5 p.m. Program
fee will be waived for TAA members.
Scheduled panelists
for "Beyond the Book" are:
- Neil Steinberg,
a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and author, among other
books, of If At All Possible, Involve a Cow: The Book of College
Pranks; Complete & Utter Failure, a Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up,
Never-Weres, and Total Flops; and The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances
(From Advertising to Zealotry). Steinberg will discuss how a full-time
newspaper columnist finds enough hours in the day to write books.
- Laura Hartman,
DePaul University professor of Business Ethics and author most recently
of Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Approaches to Global Labor
Challenges. Prof. Hartman will discuss the demands on academic
authors posed by a highly dynamic publishing environment.
- Barry Silesky,
author of John Gardner: Literary Outlaw, which was published
earlier this year to critical acclaim, as well Ferlinghetti, The
Artist in his Time, a biography of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and
In the Ruins, a collection of poems. Silesky will talk about
the business lessons (good and bad) taught by the examples of famous
literary figures. Editor of the literary journal, ACM (Another Chicago
Magazine), Silesky teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- John D. Moore,
MS, C.A.D.C, a Professor of Health Sciences at American Public University
System and a state of Illinois Certified Addictions Counselor, is
author of, "Confusing Love With Obsession." Moore will discuss
his experiences as a best-selling "self-published" author.
His publisher, iUniverse (a Barnes & Noble company), is a leader in
the newly-emerging Print-on-Demand publishing sector.
About Copyright
Clearance Center, Inc.
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a not-for-profit organization, is
the world's largest licensing agent for text reproduction rights and
provider of licensing services for reproducing copyrighted materials
in print and electronic formats. CCC currently manages rights relating
to over 1.75 million works and represents more than 9,600 publishers
and hundreds of thousands of authors and other creators, either directly
or through their representatives. CCC-licensed customers in the U.S.
number over 10,000 corporations and subsidiaries (including most of
the Fortune 100), as well as thousands of government agencies, law firms,
document suppliers, libraries, academic institutions, copy shops and
bookstores. Copyright Clearance Center can be found at www.copyright.com.
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TAA President
Interviewed for Article
TAA President Mike
Sullivan was interviewed for an article on academic authoring issues
for the April issue of Information Today, a monthly print magazine that
covers late-breaking news and long-term trends in the information industry.
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TAA Welcomes
Advertising on Web Site, in Print Newsletter
If you would like
to place an ad in the June issue of The Academic Author, or on the TAA
website, please contact TAA's new advertising manager, Aaron Gregerson,
at (507) 452-2029 or AMGreger5431@webmail.winona.edu.
For ad rates and submission form, click
here.
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