Cites & Insights 12:12 (December 2012) available

[Walt Crawford]

Cites & Insights 12:12 (December 2012) is now available for
downloading at http://citesandinsights.info/civ12i12.pdf

The print-oriented PDF is 38 pages long. A single-column 6x9" PDF
designed for online reading is also available at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ12i12on.pdf. That version is 73 pages
long. Both versions include bookmarks for all sections and
subsections, one reason they're fairly large.

The issue includes the following (also available as HTML separates
from the essay titles or at http://citesandinsights.info):
Policy:
The Rapid Rout of RWA (pp. 1-25)

    A comedy in four acts over seven weeks, from AAP/PSP's endorsement
of HR3699, the Research Works Act, on January 5, 2012, to Elsevier's
withdrawal of its support for RWA (which mysteriously caused the
near-instantaneous death of the bill, introduced as it had been by
wholly independent Congresspeople) on February 7, 2012. It's a story
that I believe and hope will resonate with scientists and others...

    And it's not directly related to the other essay, but some might
see connections:

Libraries:
Walking Away: Courage and Acquisitions (pp. 25-38)

    A much more recent story and one that's not over yet, involving a
small university librarian standing up and saying "We can't take it
any longer" and, with the help of her faculty, not taking it. Oh, and
of public relations people who don't believe in relating to the
public. Where the first story involves the largest for-profit
publisher in science, technology and medical journals, this one
involves a putatively nonprofit publisher, that is, a scholarly
society that just happens to take in one heck of a lot of money from
its publications. The story also involves the question of whether
librarians are ever allowed to be people--and at what point implicit
sexism and ageism enter into play.

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This marks the end of Volume 12. The index for Volume 12 is
value-added material (such as it is) and, as such, will only appear in
the printed paperback edition of Cites & Insights 12 (2012)--which
will be announced when it's available.

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