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April
21, 2004
Textbook Pricing
Bill to be Heard on April 28
Assembly Bill 2477,
a bill aimed at forcing publishers to reduce the costs of textbooks,
passed through the Higher Education Committee April 1 and will be heard
in an Appropriations Committee on April 28. It was introduced in the
California Legislature by Assembly Member Liu on February 19 of this
year.
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Issir,
Blackwell Launch Sexual Medicine Journal
The official journal
of the International Society for Sexual and Impotence Research (ISSIR),
The Journal of Sexual Medicine, will launch in July 2004. The premier
issue will feature never before published guidelines developed by over
200 experts from six continents during the Second International Consultation
on Sexual Dysfunctions in Men and Women, which was sponsored by the
International Consultation on Urologic Diseases (ICUD). The Journal
of Sexual Medicine will disseminate preeminent, peer-reviewed research
and information on sexual medicine in men and women to the scientific
community.
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Northeastern
University Press to Shut Down
Citing financial
woes, Northeastern University Press will stop publishing in 2005. The
Press, which has been operating for 27 years, publishes about 35 books
per year.
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TAA
Has New Phone, Fax Numbers
TAA
has changed its phone and fax numbers. The new numbers are: Phone: (727)
563-0020; Fax: (727) 230-2409.
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Elliott, Walters
Illustrate How to Simplify Language
University of South
Florida professors Deni Elliott, Poynter-Jamison chair of media ethics
and press policy, and Mark Walters, author of the recent book, Six Modern
Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, discussed what makes an effective
communicator and addressed the value of simplifying complex ideas for
real life application at the TAA conference in April. For more on the
presentation, visit the TAA convention
news section.
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How to Go Beyond
Google
David Davis, a competitive
intelligence manager with the Copyright Clearance Center, a digital
content management resource, said when it comes to web research, more
isn't always better. "It's not about serving up the longest list of
results," he said, during his TAA conference presentation in April.
Davis offered a list of alternative search engines that supply factual
data instead of market data, including "Factiva", "DIALOG", "SCIRUS",
"Lexis-Nexis", and "Firstgov.gov". These alternative search tools are
crafted for specifics, he said, taking a closer aim at the target of
research. For more on the presentation, visit the TAA
convention news section.
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How to Procure
Artwork for Your Textbook
Professors Chris
Harris and Paul Lester Elliott, communication specialists and co-authors
if the book, Visual Journalism: A Guide for New Media Professionals,
cautioned academic authors to be cautious with the grey areas of royalties
and perpetuities when publishing images with their text, during their
TAA conference discussion, "Procuring Art for Your Book Projects." They
also gave these tips on properly procuring and publishing images in
text: Get free rights to images by promising owners publicity in the
form of inserted credit lines and copyright information near the image
in the book; newspapers, magazines, museums, universities, libraries,
on-line resources, and even academic colleagues can all provide rich
hunting grounds for image gathering.
For more on the presentation, visit the TAA
convention news section.
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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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