From Your (Greek-cooking) Editor
From Your (Greek-cooking ) Editor
Katina Strauch
Against the Grain
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From Your (Greek-cooking) Editor:
Y computer instead. Let me tell
’all, I like to cook but most of
the time I am “cooking” on the
you, cooking, especially Greek,
is hard, back-breaking work. But it is great
fun and now my husband Bruce is my able
sous-chef (is that what you call it?) which
makes it all much easier. So this summer,
with lots of festivities and company, I got
out my pile of Greek cook books and began.
Haven’t tackled the baklava yet, maybe next year?
In between cooking endeavors, I have
read this issue of ATG. And what a great
issue it is, on the topic of peer review. Papers
cover the history and new directions (Irv
Rockwood), current peer review practice
(Mark Ware), PLoS ONE
(Peter Binfield), interactive open
access peer review (u lrich
Pöschl), the open scholarship
full disclosure initiative (Gary
Hall), and book reviews (Da
vid Shatz). Our op ed is by
Tony Horava, Tony
Ferguson tells us about good turns
in Hong Kong, we interview
Meris Mandernach a
wonderful collection management
librarian, learn about a
homegrown book order system (Biz
of Acq), read about functional
and transformative (From the
u niversity Press). Moving right along,
Bob Holley talks about new models, Celia
Wagner has a wonderful reminiscence
about Yale, her alma mater, Donna Jacobs
talks about translators, Mark Herring is
into print newspapers, Tom Leonhardt
talks about not blogging, Rick Anderson
thinks library collections might be too risky.
I will take a breath before I continue. Next,
Arlene Sievers gives her perspective on
building library collections in the 21st
century, John Cox is all about authors’ rights,
Richard Abel continues the approval plan
story as does Rita Ricketts with Benjamin
Henry. Ending it all, Michael Pelikan is
talking about product announcements, Todd
Carpenter is moving libraries into Web ser
vices, Greg Tananbaum
talks to ProQuest at 70,
Cris Ferguson mulls
over the demise of the
print newspaper, and Xan
Arch helps with crowd
control. And we haven’t
talked about many other
columns in this issue. Get
busy reading right now!
Oops! Bruce wants to
make baklava and I need
to lie down first. Yikes!
See y’all in Chicago.
Love, Yr. Ed.
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Dear Loyal ATG Fans!
Okay? Please! — Yr. Ed. It’s late at night and I need your letter/comments/issues! Are you there? Send me a letter, an email, a missive, whatever, right now!
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v OLuME 21 — 2009
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Against the Grain / June 2009
Rumors
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a fake, computer-generated manuscript to The
Open Information Science Journal and then
withdrew it after acceptance. They produced
the paper using software that generates
grammatically correct but nonsensical text, and
submitted the manuscript under pseudonyms
in late January. The hoax has raised doubts
about the open access author-pays model.
The editor of the journal has resigned.
www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/06/10/nonsense-for-dollars/
Talk about pertinent! This issue — on peer
review — is guest edited by the amazing Irv
Rockwood (Editor & Publisher, Choice). In his introduction, Irv says that peer review is more important now than ever. We couldn’t agree more!
And did you know that in the midst of it
all, Irv was moving! Choice has moved. The
new address is 575 Main Street, Suite 300,
Middletown, CT 06457. Phone numbers and email addresses are unchanged.
Do you have an iPhone? Well if you do,
Duke u niversity Libraries now offers a
comprehensive university digital image
collection specifically formatted for an iPhone or
iTouch device. It includes thousands of photos
and other artifacts that range from early beer
advertisements to materials on San Francisco’s
Haight-Ashbury scene in the 1960s. Although
a growing number of scholarly institutions
offer images and other material online, Duke is
the first to offer collections that take advantage
of the iPhone’s design, navigation and other
features.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHK3E4N7w6o.
m.duke.edu.
Okay. We have changed the theme of the
2009 Charleston Conference to NECESSITY
IS THE MOTHER OF INvENTION . Used
to be “There’s a Whole Lotta Changing Going
on.” But in reviewing the themes, I noticed
that we had used the “change” theme in two
other conferences — 1987 (Plus ça Change)
and 2001 (The Trends They are A’Changing).
And this year we have ch (...truncated)