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Liblicense readers may find the July issue of Learned Publishing
of interest - it is now online. All articles are free to all
ALPSP and SSP members and to journal subscribers; in addition,
editorials, reviews and letters to the Editors, as well as any
articles where the author has taken up the ALPSP Author Choice OA
option, are now free to all.  Enjoy your reading (and if anything
stimulates you to respond, don't hesitate to contact us)!

If you would like to receive an email alert or RSS feed every
time a new issue goes online, all you have to do is sign up at
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp.

This issue is packed with interesting and useful articles by
publishers, librarians, lawyers and others, ranging from journal
prices to library technology, and from Digital Rights Management
to the value of the Big Deal.

We are keen to find out what our readers think of the journal -
whether you are a subscriber or not, please take a few minutes to
complete the online survey which you will find prominently linked
from the ALPSP homepage at <http://www.alpsp.org/>.  You could
even win an Amazon book voucher!

The Editorial (http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323901) looks
at the changes in both scholarly behaviour and scholarly
communication which ought to be preoccupying publishers.

Lawyers Duncan Calow and Rebecca Egan
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323857) consider the
question of whether scholarly publishers need DRM to protect
their content.

Robert Bley, of Ex Libris, gives a useful summary of how library
systems are evolving in the digital era, and what this means for
publishers (http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323910).

Librarians Francoise Vandooren and Cecile Gass offer an
intriguing case study of how the library and university press at
the Free University of Brussels have collaborated to put
out-of-print books online
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323811).

Contrary to some authors' views, librarian Terry Bucknell has
clear evidence that Big Deals provide excellent value for money.
He explains how the University of Liverpool has made use of usage
statistics to establish the undoubted value of its Big Deals
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323893).

Claire Bird provides a useful summary and some up-to-date
statistics on Oxford Journals' experience in both full and hybrid
OA publishing (http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X288910).

Two more lawyers, Bridget Noonan and Debra Parrish, have analysed
occurrences of editorial 'expressions of concern' about articles
on which there is an as yet unresolved question
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X288857);  this is clearly a
useful tool which journal editors could employ more widely.

Claire Creaser and Sonya White, of LISU, report on a detailed
analysis of trends in journal prices from 11 leading publishers
between 2000 and 2006
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323866).

John Regazzi and Selenay Aytac, of the Scholarly Communications
Lab at Long Island University, have carried out a small study of
the attributes which are important to authors in evaluating the
quality of different journals in which to publish
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X2889380).

Last but not least, there are two book reviews in this issue:
OA publisher Paul Peters (Hindawi) on David Solomon's Guide to
'Developing Open Access Journals'
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323929), and Charles
Oppenheim (Loughborough University) on Christine Borgman's
'Scholarship in the Digital Age'
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315108X323938).

With this issue, we bid farewell both to Priscilla Markwood as
North American Editor and to Charles Oppenheim as Reviews Editor;
both have done a fantastic job over the past couple of years.
Their successors are Janet Fisher and Pippa Smart respectively.

Sally Morris, Editor-in-Chief
(editor@alpsp.org)

Priscilla Markwood, North American Editor
(us-editor@alpsp.org)


Sally Morris
Editor-in-Chief, Learned Publishing
South House, The Street
Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Tel:  +44(0)1903 871286
Fax:  +44(0)8701 202806
Email:  editor@alpsp.org
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