RE: Peter Brantley's blog

[Aline Soules <aline.soules@csueastbay.edu>]

I tried, unsuccessfully, to add the following comment to the blog:

Both publishers and librarians will need to rethink their 
approaches in order to stay relevant.  For example, other than 
academics, those in the discipline of computing science simply 
publish on the web.  You will find dissertations, reports, 
papers, conference proceedings, and every other imaginable form 
of published material.  They by-pass publishers and librarians. 
The significance of this is not only that this is happening in 
one or more disciplines, it is definitely happening among those 
who are essentially determining the new forms of communication - 
namely, computing science majors.  We not only have to rethink 
our approaches, we need to speed up the rate at which we are 
moving towards new paradigms.

Aline Soules
Cal State East Bay
510-885-4596
aline.soules@csueastbay.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf of Harper, Georgia K
Sent: Fri 6/15/2007 4:26 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Peter Brantley's blog

I don't think it's a problem with the blog url. The url has split 
in the message below and if you click on it, you only get the 
first part. To go to the site, you have to cut and paste the rest 
of the url into the browswer. The entire link is 
http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/06/08/on_scholarly_communica 
tion_and_universit

Apparently too long for the software that handles this list to
keep it together.

Georgia Harper
Scholarly Communications Advisor
University of Texas at Austin Libraries
512.495.4653; 512.971.4325 (c)

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of sgt3@psu.edu
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:40 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: Peter Brantley's blog

I will ask the Journals Manager at the UT Press if there is
another URL by which this article can be accessed. JSP is
included in Project Muse, so anyone at an institution that
subscribes to Project Muse should have access to it, at least.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press

>Link rot? Can't get to Sandy's article mentioned from the link
>below anymore.
>
>Chuck Hamaker
>Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
>Atkins Library
>University of North Carolina Charlotte
>Charlotte, NC 28223
>
>-----Original Message-----
>[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of sgt3@psu.edu
>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 8:53 PM
>To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>Subject: Re: Peter Brantley's blog
>
>Indeed, and I just contributed two postings to this discussion
>myself. Peter Brantley and Chuck Hamaker as commentator both
>argue that the editorial process in book publishing is not well
>understood by librarians (and, I would add, by administrators
>and faculty, too) unless any of them have actually served on a
>press editorial board. I agree, and I made an effort to
>illuminate this complex process (which has no counterpart in the
>arena of academic journal publishing, as Paul Courant notes in
>his comment) in an article in the Journal of Scholarly
>Publishing titled "The 'Value Added' in Editorial Acquisitions"
>in which I articulated nine functions that an acquiring editor
>plays in the system of scholarly communication When librarians
>aspire to become publishers, they would do well to understand
>what it is they are getting into and what is required to be
>successful in this domain. The article is accessible here:
>
><http://www.utpjournals.com/jsp/jsp302.html>
>
>Sandy Thatcher
>Penn State University Press
>
>
>>Very interesting blog post by Peter Brantley:
>>
>>http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/06/08/on_scholarly_communi
cation_and_universit
>>
>>The topic is the relationship between university presses and
>>libraries and the challenges of publishing in the years ahead.
>>Peter is the head of the Digital Library Federation.
>>
>>Joe Esposito