Joachim Engelland

People interested in research communication and publishing will have an interesting autumn this year. The Association of Danish Science Editors will launch a campaign to discuss open access mandates.

Check out STM´s new short & smart videos about Scholarly Scientific Publishing.

There are (for lack of a better word…) “books”: produced effortless, cheap, bare of any scholarly standards (peer review, editor etc.) by glueing together Wikipedia texts. In an article in sueddeutsche.de  Corinna Nohn highlights cases, where these books of obviously very low quality were acquired by high profile academic libraries. And the question is: how come…?

The article provokes thinking about patron driven acquisition, the value of established publisher brands and the value of clear author attribution.

The next Intensive Course Journal Publising – U.S.  is coming up in November in the Washington DC area . Only two places left (should anyone wish to sign up last minute).

The equivalent STM course in Asia will run mid of March 2011 in Singapore. This year the course in Singapore was fully booked, and we had to turn away many people. The program is up now, and registration starts again:  Intensive Course in Journal Publising  – Asia.

Programs of the uppcoming STM seminars in London are up.

STM E-Production Seminar 2010 and STM Innovations Seminar 2010

So there are indeed still reasons for flying over to London in December.

The STM seminar “beyond books“, held after the London Book Fair, brought together some excellent speakers from the university/library world and from STM/SSH publishers. All speaker videos are available for free viewing here at the STM website.

Das Verlagsportal www.p3wiki.de ist “auf Sendung”. Am 22. März haben Gerrit Imsieke und Joachim Brunold das Portal freigeschaltet.

Gerrit Imsieke ist Inhaber der le-tex publishing services GmbH (Leipzig), und Joachim Brunold bringt seine Erfahrung aus derUnternehmensberatung ein. Seit Anfang 2010 ist auch Joachim Engelland als Mitherausgeber bei p3wiki dabei.

p3wiki.de ist die erste interaktive Plattform für Publikations-Prozesse. Verlagsmanager finden hier umfassende, leicht anwendbare und frei nutzbare Informationen zur Gestaltung von Geschäftsprozessen:

• Standardisierte Darstellung der Kerngeschäftsprozesse von Verlagen (Redaktion/Lektorat, Herstellung, Marketing, Vertrieb)
• Informationen zu automatisierten Workflows
• Konzepte und Prinzipien des Geschäftsprozess-Management
• Verlagsrelevante Software, mit welcher Verlagsprozesse flexibel gestaltet und unterstützt werden können (Verlagssoftware, Content-Management-Systeme, Media Asset Systeme etc.)
• Fallstudien, Whitepapers und Technologie-Konzepten

This seminar is relevant to publishing professionals with strategic responsibility and business development roles – in social sciences, humanities and stm publishing. It is right after the London Book Fair, 22nd April in London. The program in brief:

• Chair Jayne Marks, Sage
• Research and Information habits in the social science and humanities: a study by JSTOR –  Laura Brown, Executive Vice President ITHAKA Strategy and Research
• Doing data in the social sciences and humanities: links to and from published work – Peter Burnhill, University of Edinburgh, Director EDINA  
• Panel: Challenges of publishing for the social sciences and humanities – chair Diane Cogan
  • Alan Jarvis, Taylor & Francis
  • Sarah Phibbs, Wiley-Blackwell
  • Geraldine Billingham, Berg Publishers
• Research Methods Online – Sage (Speaker to be confirmed)
• Digging into Data: Electronic publications in Archaeology – Julian Richards, Director of “Internet Archaeology”
• Commercial opportunities for social science publishers: insights and development at Google – Santiago de la Mora, Google
• Open access text books – hope and (first) experience with “paperC”, Wulf von Lucius, Lucius & Lucius
• Open access monographs in the humanities – results from the OAPEN case study, Eelco Ferwerda, Amsterdam University Press

Mary Ann Liebert just launched their new journal “Videourology“, which supplements the long established Journal of Endourology. Urologists can find video demonstrations of innovative surgical techniques that would be difficult to describe in text.  Much effort had been put into the creation of navigation tools on the site and into the submission and peer review process for video material. Here is more information about the product.

Michael Clarke triggered an interesting discussion on Scholarly Kitchen about Google’s new Sidewiki. I started playing with Sidewiki myself. Kind of fun, I liked it. It has the potential for becoming popular and influential – with all the positive and negative impacts this brings. I am beginning to consider how publishers might make use of it – or cope with it (depending how you see it).