A statistical analysis of usage data for open-access ebooks from two different publishers and from a free ebook distribution platform.
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Volume 22, No. 1
2019This study estimates the article processing charges for 509 medical open access journals using a sample selection model to examine the determinants of the charges.
How to Choose a Format: Consumers’ Evaluation in Choosing a Format for Reading Books in Norway
Linn-Birgit Kristensen
2019This article studies the determining factors when choosing a format for reading, and how e-books and physical books compare to each other.
The Cornwall a-book: An Augmented Travel Guide Using Next Generation Paper
David M. Frohlich, Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh, Mirek Bober, Haiyue Yuan, Radu Sporea, Brice Le Borgne, Caroline Scarles, George Revill, Jan van Duppen, Alan W. Brown, and Megan Beynon
2019This paper introduces a new method of reading through the use of an augmented book (‘a-book’).
Volume 21, No. 1
2018Review of The Business of Being a Writer (Jane Friedman), which presents a twenty-first century guide to the publishing industry, aimed at those who are beginning a career in writing.
Book Review: Chris Mackenzie Jones, Behind the Book: Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication
Rafael Chaiken
2018Review of Behind the Book: Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication (Chris Mackenzie Jones), featuring interviews of eleven first-time trade authors, using their stories to provide advice for aspiring writers.
“Let’s start a journal!”: The Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Journal as Educational Opportunity
Daniel Paul O’Donnell, et al.
2018Details the lessons learned by the University of Lethbridge’s Graduate Students Association while establishing a multidisciplinary, institution-focused graduate journal.
An argument against NPM told as a fictitious story.
Book Review: Peter Ginna, ed. What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing.
Johanna Meetz
2018Review of What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing (Peter Ginna, ed.), a collection of essays offering stories of editing from various perspectives.
Review of The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition, which includes an online counterpart with additional electronic resources.
How does one publish and preserve a piece of complex multimedia work in a way that balances competing archival, scholarly, and creative needs?
JEP's Editor bids the journal a fond farewell and looks toward the future.
A study of research articles about the open access (OA) movement, and how many of them are published non-OA, in paywalled journals.
Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Design Thinking to Build New Tools for Researchers
Alex Humphreys
2018A JSTOR Labs Report, June 2017.
Greater transparency can lead to getting to reasonable BPCs with less acrimony than has been the case with journal APCs.