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An Interview with Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

1. Todd thanks for taking the time to talk to Wiley-Blackwell’s Publishing News. First of all, could you introduce NISO to our readers? Thank you for the opportunity. The National Information Standards (NISO) fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can…

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David Nicholson By
Vice President & Journals Publishing Director

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Piracy, Fraud, and Other Challenges for Publishers

Piracy and subscription fraud pose significant challenges to the publishing industry, especially in the digital world, where the illegitimate use of copyrighted materials is pervasive.  One-off illegitimate copies of copyrighted material can be found all over the internet, but the greatest challenge comes from systematic piracy facilitated by file-sharing sites. These sites come in a…

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Legal Advisor

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Your starter for ten… an interview with Ian Russell, CEO of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)

www.alpsp.org/  Wiley-Blackwell is an associate member of ALPSP and works closely with Ian and other ALPSP officers on publishing trade issues, training and research into scholarly communication. Many of our partner societies are also members of ALPSP. 1)      Ian, what attracted you to work for ALPSP? There were a number of reasons but I guess…

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David Nicholson By
Vice President & Journals Publishing Director

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Our Voices in Our Industry

Well over 100 Wiley employees are active in publishing industry organizations, working on everything from technical issues and copyright enforcement to environmental concerns, publishing ethics, and serving the handicapped and the economically disadvantaged. “Our involvement brings multiple benefits,” says Emily Gillingham, Director, Library and Institutional Marketing, Wiley-Blackwell, who has participated in such activity and tracked…

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John Lehmann-Haupt By
Editor, Corporate Publications

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ALPSP Seminar on Plagiarism Detection and Management

A recent one-day seminar organized by ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) focused on a very topical issue: plagiarism detection and management. It was an interesting and very full day, so it’s only possible here to give a brief overview. Audio files of the presentations and the slides are available on the…

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Managing Editor, The Plant Journal

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Bob Campbell Honored by the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)

We are delighted to announce that the 2009 ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing has been awarded to Bob Campbell, Senior Publisher at Wiley-Blackwell, and known personally to many of our society partners and editors. In a brief note explaining their choice, the ALPSP Council wrote: In a career spanning more than 40 years,…

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Evolutionary Applications wins ALPSP award for Best New Journal 2009

Evolutionary Applications beat stiff competition to win the 2009 ALPSP Best New Journal Award; it was announced at the ALPSP Conference Dinner on 10 September. Michelle Tseng, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, came to us with her vision for a journal that would demonstrate the significant impact made by evolutionary…

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Editorial Director, Life Sciences

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Societies Libraries

Impact of Self-Archiving on Subscriptions

One of the central issues in the open access debate is whether achieving open access through self-archiving of articles will undermine the paid circulation of a journal. Funding bodies and some institutions may request or even require authors to post their articles in some form on or within six months of publication. The Publishing Research…

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Bob Campbell By
Senior Publisher

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