May
11, 2005
Open Access Journals
Move into the Mainstream
A "Wired News" article
reports that open access journals, online journals that offer free access
to users, are becoming more accepted in the academic journal community.
Open access journal articles are even being commonly cited by other
journals, the website reports. More than 300 open access journals have
launched in the last three months. Read the entire article here.
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University Library
to Enter into Scholarly Publishing
A gift by Sacramento,
California philanthropist Angelo Tsakopoulos will enable Sacramento
State University Library to create a digital press. Using off-the-shelf
technology -- cameras, scanners and computers, as well as software designed
for archives and museums -- one of the press's first projects will be
to publish selections from the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, an archive
of rare Greek documents and artifacts donated by Tsakopoulos. The collection
represents the kinds of challenges the press was established to meet:
its documents and artifacts are significant to the comparatively small
community of Hellenic scholars located throughout the world, a niche
audience that doesn't always draw the attention of commercial scholarly
publishers. Freed from the physical and economic constraints of printing
on paper, the press can make more of the collection available to scholars,
while enabling them to search, download, e-mail and link to virtually
any part of it -- simple to do on a computer but much more difficult
when information is only available in print.
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2005 Texty Winner
Featured in AP Story
2005 Texty winner,
"The Nebraska Adventure," by Jean Lukesh was featured in an Associated
Press story. The book, in its second edition, is published by Gibbs
Smith. Read the article printed in the Sioux City Journal here.
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Convention Registration
Deadline Extended to May 15
Due to a delay in
the Special Convention issue of The Academic Author, the convention
registration deadline has been extended to May 15.
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TAA Convention
Schedule Updated
Check out the schedule
for the 2005 TAA Convention here.
TAA's 18th Annual
convention will be held at the Imperial Palace Hotel, located right
on the Las Vegas strip. To register for the convention, contact TAA
at (727) 563-0020 or TEXT@tampabay.rr.com
or download registration forms here.
Registration is
$75 for members before May 1, $125 after. Registration for non-members
is $125 before May 1, $175 after. Non-member registration includes a
one year membership to TAA. A pre-convention workshop, "Publish and
Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar," will be held Thursday, June 23,
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, June 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Cost is
$175 for TAA members before May 1, $225 after; non-members $225 before
May 1, $275 after. Room rates for TAA convention attendees are $85 per
night until May 20. Call the Imperial Palace to reserve your room: (800)
634-6441. You can find more information about the TAA convention here.
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Post Your Questions
About Text and Academic Authoring
To post a question
to the TAA Listserv, send an e-mail to: TAA@mail-list.com
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URL to Your E-mail Signature
Help spread the
word about TAA — add TAA's website URL to your e-mail signature:
Member of the Text and Academic Authors Association http://www.taaonline.net
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Sound Off!
TAA is always looking
for columns on issues related to text and academic authoring (plagiarism;
used books; comp copies; contracts; royalties; journal submission guidelines,
etc.) for publication on the TAA website or in The Academic Author.
400-word maximum. Please send your name, title, school, college or university
affiliation (if any), phone number and e-mail address along with your
column to Kim Pawlak, Editor, kmpawlak@centurytel.net
or mail it to S2874 Spruce St., Fountain City, WI 54629 or call (608)
687-3106.
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