Business Aspects of Journal Publishing

I have just finished giving speech (together with my colleague from HK) at the Higher Education seminar which was held at Twin Plaza Hotel, Slipi, Jakarta.

I presented a short paper entitled: Business Aspects of Journal Publishing, in whch I discussed the main  function of scientific journals, the development of journals and how journals publishing becoming big businesses, especially in the internet era.

The audience are representatives from ten best journals in Indonesia according to Higher Education criterion. They are representatives from the ten best journals including five which are eligible to get government grant for journal development.

My colleague presented Managing International Peer Reviewer, Strategy for Capturing Interests of International Contributors, Language Mastery for Scientific Journals, and Self-Editing and Revisions. The response are very positive for both his presentation and mine (not bad for only less than a week notice).

It was a great opportunity to meet a wide range of players in Indonesian scientific community.

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Licensing Digital Information Mailing List

Anybody interested in digital information licensing, especially scholarly journals for librarians, should subscribe to the LIBLICENCE-L mailing list which is hosted at Yale University Library.

Please visit:
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml
to check archive to this very informational mailing list or directly visit
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/mailing-list.shtml
to subscribe to the mailing list.

This link would certainly useful to the attendee of the forthcoming scientific journal management training which will be held in Jakarta on September 7-9, 2007.

The book on book as visioned in 1932

There is an interesting posting at Eoin Purcell’s Blog:
http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2007/08/19/information-the-long-now/

Those who think that we’re very modern and digital should think again. The old concept of currently digital publishing on the Internat has been visioned in this book on book which was published in 1932.