RE: Peter Brantley's blog

[sgt3@psu.edu]

[Mod. Note: Project Muse staff report that the article is not in 
Muse -- it was published before Muse included the journal JSP.]

It's the link to my article, not the blog, that is the problem.

Sandy Thatcher


> 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_communication_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_communication_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