Cites & Insights 15:3 (March 2015) available

[Walt Crawford]

Cites & Insights 15:3 (March 2015) is now available for downloading at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ15i3.pdf

The issue is 24 pages long.

If you plan to view it online or need working hyperlinks (at the
expense of boldface working--someday, I'll have a new computer and new
version of Word's PDF conversion and Acrobat), the single-column 6x9"
version, 46 pages long, is available at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ13i3on.pdf

This issue includes the following:

Intersections: One More Chunk of DOAJ    pp. 1-10

Because there will be a published concise version of all this
stuff--out this summer from ALA's Library Technology Reports, working
title "Idealism and Opportunism: The State of Open Access Journals"--I
went through 2,200-odd additional DOAJ journals with English as one of
the language options (but not the first one), and was able to add
1,507 more entries to my DOAJ master spreadsheet, which now includes
6,490 journals qualifying for full analysis and 811 that don't. This
essay offers some summary information on the 1,507 added journals and
some overall notes on the full DOAJ set--including some new and
replacement tables (there may be errors in tables 2.66 b and c and
2.67 b and c in earlier issues).

The essay also offers some details on "N" (not OA) journals, notes on
very small journals, a few comments on opportunism, idealism and
initiative--and the URLs for two spreadsheets offering anonymized
versions of the DOAJ and Beall data. (Note that the DOAJ spreadsheet
has just been changed to shift 580 "B" journals there because of
$1,000-or-more APCs to a new "A$" subgrade, since the high APC was the
only issue with them. The summary text in this issue has NOT been
changed to reflect this refinement; the Library Technology Reports
issue will reflect the change.)

The two spreadsheeets are on figshare and licensed with the Creative
Commons "BY" license, making them available for any use as long as
attribution is provided. Each spreadsheet includes a data key as a
second page.

Words: Books, E and P,  2014    pp. 10-24

Bringing discussions of ebooks vs. (or and) pbooks up to date from the
January 2014 essay. In most cases, "and" is now the prevailing
attitude as ebook sales appear to have plateaued--although of course
there are still those who say print books will die Because Digital and
now, oddly, a few who say ebooks will die or are dead (which I regard
as equally unlikely).

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