past and pending

~ some of the past and a little that is pending


calimae:

These publishers refuse to sell or license eBooks to libraries sign

See: bit.ly/noebooks and http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2012/02/ebooksign.html

Academic publishers have become the enemies of science ›

This is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of scientists. Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication. The Research Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, amounts to a declaration of war by the publishers.