tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79413172024-03-12T19:51:28.585-07:00C&I UpdatesNew issue announcements and occasional administrative stuff for Cites & Insights: Crawford at Largewaltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-62493054807875943732019-06-25T12:22:00.004-07:002019-06-25T12:22:37.250-07:00Cites & Insights 19:2 (June 2019) available<!-- wp:paragraph -->
The <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ19i2.pdf">June 2019 <i>Cites & Insight</i>s</a> (19:2) is now available at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ19i2.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ19i2.pdf</a><br />
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The 72-page issue includes:<br />
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The Front: Some Notes on GOA4 pp. 1-12</h3>
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A discussion of the new Key Facts tables, and a much longer discussion of how I use pivot tables in a template to make it possible to produce all three books from <i>GOA4 </i>within a few weeks after finishing the data gathering.</blockquote>
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Intersections: Economics and Access 2019 pp. 12-72</h3>
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Probably the last Economics and Access roundup, since 2019 is probably the last year for <i>Cites & Insights</i>. </blockquote>
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Why is this a very late June 2019 issue rather than a slightly early July 2019 issue? Because I don't know how many issues it will take to shut things down nicely. This gives me a little flexibility.<br />
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What would it take to keep C&I going, I hear almost nobody asking?<br />
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<li>A lot more readership</li>
<li>Some useful feedback</li>
<li>Perhaps some sales of the annual paperback issues</li>
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I do plan to keep the GOA series going as long as SPARC finds it worth supporting and I believe I can do it well. I also plan to keep this blog going for a while--and I continue to be active on Facebook, Twitter and Mokum.<br />
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If plans do <i>not </i>change, I'll keep the <i>Cites & Insights</i> site up for at least two years after the final edition of GOA or the final issue of C&I, whichever comes last. (And waltcrawford.name up for at least that long.)<br />
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The 36-page issue includes:
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The Front pp. 1-2</h3>
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Notes on <i>GOAJ4 </i>and what it means for Volume 19 of <i>Cites & Insights</i>.</blockquote>
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Words: Books, Ebooks and Libraries pp. 2-26</h3>
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Not just "books, print vs. e" but a broader range of notes on books, including a couple of library-related items.</blockquote>
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Media: Media Notes pp. 26-36</h3>
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Two parts: magazine notes (including some anecdata about individual magazine changes) and other media notes.</blockquote>
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<del>hundreds dozens</del>one or two of you eagerly awaiting the print volume, index and all, I'll post something when it's available, probably in mid-December.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-27541491205176694062018-10-02T16:23:00.001-07:002018-10-02T16:23:01.778-07:00Cites & Insights 18:7 (October 2018) available<a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i7.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 18:7</a> (October 2018) is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i7.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i7.pdf</a><br />
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The 24-page issue includes:<br />
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Intersections: A Few Small Essays pp. 1-13</h3>
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Half of this section is an informal commentary on a remarkable new free list of >35,000 open access journals (and other things) in the humanities and social sciences (mostly) from Jan Szczepanski. There are also commentaries on "when good scholars go bad"--why I think the new spate of articles Viewing With Alarm scholars at serious institutions with articles in "bad" journals are looking at the wrong side of the equation; the colors, and why I think two is enough; why I do not (currently) plan to cover the new Hot Topic in OA; whether you can or should be an OA observer without being an advocate [for or against] or a skeptic; why "Intersections"; and a comprehensive guide to really useful applications of blockchain in libraries. [Omitted for space and because I'm a coward: A suggestion that societies that depend on subscription revenues aren't necessarily better than commercial publishers...]</blockquote>
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The Back: Audiophile System Prices 2018 pp. 13-24</h3>
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This time around, I'm including median systems in each category: systems composed of median-priced components. You can assemble a complete (CD and LP) audiophile system for $1,918--or you can spend $832,223 before adding power conditioners and other extras.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-89417241767254401082018-07-25T12:44:00.002-07:002018-07-25T12:44:21.297-07:00Cites & Insights 18.5 available<a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i5.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 18:5</a> (August 2018) is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i5.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i5.pdf</a><br />
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The 34-page summer-light issue includes the following:
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Intersections: GOAJ: Commentary Examples pp. 1-7</h3>
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I could really use feedback on some aspects of the Gold Open Access Journals project, if it goes forward. Two decision points are whether to include my quick comments for each country as part of the Countries book, and whether to include quick comments for each subject as part of the Subject Supplement. This "article" includes some samples of such commentary.</blockquote>
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The Middle: Futurism and Forecasts pp. 7-21</h3>
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Commentary on a combination of general futurism, library futurism and specific forecasts, ranging from 2014 to 2018.</blockquote>
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The Back pp. 22-34</h3>
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Small snarky items on a range of things.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-9216969398034699662018-06-13T12:56:00.000-07:002018-06-13T12:56:04.066-07:00Cites & Insights 18.4 available: Subject supplement to GOAJ3The <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i4.pdf">July 2018 <i>Cites & Insights</i> (18.4)</a> is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i4.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i4.pdf</a><br />
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The 76-page issue consists of the Subject Supplement to <i>GOAJ3: Gold Open Access Journals 2012-2017. </i>(As always. links for all portions of all GOAJ editions live at <a href="https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html">https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html</a>)<br />
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This subject supplement differs from last year's version in two ways (apart from having entirely new data):
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<li>As with <i>Gold Open Access Journals by Country 2012-2017, </i>I have forgone added commentary to focus on facts and figures while retaining a reasonable length.</li>
<li>With the exception of Medicine, every subject's list of articles by country includes all OAWorld countries with at least 20 articles in 2017 (APCLand is treated as a country), much more complete lists than last year, with several lists taking more than a page. (The Medicine list would be at least three pages long.)</li>
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The article closes with a series of questions to elicit feedback for future editions of GOAJ, if any. Your feedback is appreciated.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-29519030347025074982018-06-01T08:34:00.004-07:002018-06-04T08:18:26.583-07:00Cites & Insights 18.3 (June 2018) available<a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i3.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 18:3</a> (June 2018) is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i3.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i3.pdf</a><br />
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The 76-page issue is basically a shorter version of GOAJ3: Gold Open Access Journals 2012-2017 for those who aren't ready to read the whole thing (<a href="https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html">links here</a>):<br />
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GOAJ3: Gold Open Access Journals 2012-2017, chapters 1-7 pp. 2-76</h3>
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The first seven chapters of the 19-chapter book, providing the key findings. (The full book is a free PDF download or a $5 trade paperback.)</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-56505196104425594572018-04-12T08:43:00.003-07:002018-04-12T08:43:17.419-07:00Cites & Insights 18:2 (April 2018) availableFive months in the making*, it's ready for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i2.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i2.pdf</a>: the <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i2.pdf">April 2018 <i>Cites & Insights</i></a>, volume 18, number 2.<br />
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This 44-page issue includes:
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The Front: Readership Notes, 2017 pp. 1-2</h3>
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A belated set of notes on 2017 readership.</blockquote>
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Technology: Wikipedia: Oldish Notes pp. 2-16</h3>
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Mostly items tagged when I was still tracking Wikipedia more avidly, with most items still (I think) relevant.</blockquote>
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Words: Writing, Publishing and Stuff pp. 16-44</h3>
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Mostly-older (and still relevant) items about topics word-related topics other than ebooks and print books.</blockquote>
There were no February or March issues. There probably won't be a May issue.
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* Which is to say, part of this issue was written in December 2017, the rest in April 2018.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-15657283482360068462017-12-19T11:24:00.001-08:002017-12-19T11:24:07.763-08:00Cites & Insights 18:1 (January 2018) availableThe<a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i1.pdf"> January 2018 <i>Cites & Insights</i></a> (18:1) is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i1.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i1.pdf</a><br />
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The 48-page (6" x 9") issue includes:
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The Front pp. 1-2</h3>
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Announcing the <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/cites-insights-17-2017/22083409"><i>C&I Annual</i></a> for 2017, the most booklike annual to date; why you should buy a copy and support C&I; and brief "plans" for the 2018 volume. (<b>Note</b>: there's also a 20% sale on <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/cites-insights-17-2017/22083409">that annual</a> and all other Lulu print books, good through December 25, 2017: use coupon code <b>LULU20</b>.)</blockquote>
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Intersections: Open Access Issues pp. 2-42</h3>
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Issues other than economics and ethics (and "predatory" stuff), that is.</blockquote>
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The Back: Audiophile System Prices, 2017 pp. 42-48</h3>
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This annual feature--this time based on the October 2017 <i>Stereophile</i>--appears as a standalone The Back this time around. Did you know that you can assemble an audiophile-approved CD-only (and probably bass-shy) system for $624, a similar vinyl-only system for $874, or a more typical system with both CD and vinyl for $2,861--or, if you're rolling in it, spend $853,688 (yes, that's for a <i>stereo</i> system).</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-76615931689227872017-11-01T14:13:00.001-07:002017-11-01T14:13:20.360-07:00Cites & Insights 17:10 (November 2017) available for downloadingThe most colorful issue of <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i10.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i></a> to date, <a href="https://citeandinsights.info/civ17i10.pdf">November 2017</a>, is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i10.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i10.pdf</a><br />
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This 36-page (6x9") issue includes two essays:
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Intersections: Gray Portraits pp. 1-26</h3>
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A brief portrait of each of the 29 publishers and "publishers" with 100 or more journals and "journals" in <i><a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i9.pdf">Gray OA 2014-2017</a>. </i>You can draw your own conclusions as to whether 12 of the "largest" 14 (and 13 of the 29) are different "publishers" or one "publisher" with many aliases.</blockquote>
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Social Networks: Remember Facebook? pp. 27-36</h3>
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A roundup of Facebook-related items from four to seven years ago, which may or may not be of any interest now.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-72321057397089582202017-10-15T12:34:00.005-07:002017-10-15T12:34:57.733-07:00Cites & Insights October 2017 available: Gray OA 2014-2017<a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i9.pdf"><i>Gray OA 2014-2017: A Partial Followup</i></a>, the October 2017 <i>Cites & Insights</i> (17.9), is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i9.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i9.pdf</a><br />
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The single-essay issue is 42 pages long (38 numbered pages).<br />
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It updates article-count and status-code information (but not APC/fee information) for gray OA journals not in DOAJ, adding full-year 2016 article counts and January-June 2017 counts, doubled for ease of comparisons.<br />
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Journals in <i><a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i1.pdf">Gray OA 2012-2016 </a></i>that have been added to <a href="https://doaj.org/"><i>DOAJ</i> </a>have been removed from the new report.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-13893736554637859032017-09-14T08:21:00.002-07:002017-09-14T09:13:21.226-07:00Cites & Insights September 2017 availableThe <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i8.pdf">September 2017 issue of <i>Cites & Insights</i> (17:8)</a> is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i8.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i8.pdf</a><br />
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A very personal and <i>very </i>short issue (12 6" x 9" pages) includes two essays:<br />
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The Front: Maybe I'm Doing it Wrong pp. 1-4</h3>
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Hat-tip to Randy Newman for the title, and--although this was written over the weekend and it's not referred to in the essay, even indirectly--to <i>CHE</i> for once again making my point.</blockquote>
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Perspective: Where I Stand: OA, "Predatory," Blacklists, the Bealllists and Thought Leadership pp. 4-12</h3>
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That's not even the full title. There's a subtitle, "or why 140 characters is less than 1% of what I need to say about this cluster of topics," which relates to the Twitter "conversation" that resulted in this somewhat-redundant commentary being written.</blockquote>
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Enjoy. Or not.<br />
<br />waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-66810715705076067512017-07-30T10:28:00.001-07:002017-07-30T10:41:35.667-07:00Cites & Insights 17.7 (August 2017) availableThe <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i7.pdf">August 2017 <i>Cites & Insights</i> (volume 17, issue 7</a>) is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i7.pdf">https://citesandinsights,info/civ17i7.pdf</a><br />
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The 32-page (6" x 9", designed for online/tablet reading) issue includes:
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The Front: The Summer Issues pp. 1-2</h3>
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An ode to stone fruit season and a note on lack of deeper significance.</blockquote>
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Media: Mystery Collection, Part 8 pp. 2-16</h3>
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Three years in the making, this set of mini-reviews covers discs 43 through 48 of the 250-movie collection.</blockquote>
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The Back pp. 17-31</h3>
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Audio oddities: catching up with almost a year's worth of peculiarities--plus a tally of International Journals of Stuff.</blockquote>
What's that you say? What's on page 32? Overhead: the ongoing nearly-pointless "Pay What You Wish" and the masthead. The last page is short, and I chose not to write a couple of paragraphs to pad it.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-42459795225022494102017-07-01T14:51:00.003-07:002017-07-01T14:51:49.305-07:00Cites & Insights 17:6 (July 2017) availableThe <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i6.pdf">July 2017 Cites & Insights (17:6)</a> is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i6.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i6.pdf</a><br />
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This 60-page (6" x 9") issue consists of one essay:
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Intersections: Economics and Access 2017 pp. 1-60</h3>
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A roundup of various items relating to the cost, price, fees and other aspects of scholarly journals, with an emphasis on open access.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-2449994273692682702017-06-06T11:28:00.002-07:002017-06-06T11:28:36.139-07:00Cites & Insights 17.5 available: subject supplement to GOAJ2<a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i5.pdf">Cites & Insights 17.5</a> (June 2017) is now available for downloading at <a href="https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i5.pdf">https://citesandinsights.info/civ17i5.pdf</a><br />
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The 84-page issue (6" x 9" pages designed for online/device reading) includes:
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The Front: The Countries of OAWorld 2: 2011-2016 pp. 1-11</h3>
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Announcing <i>The Countries of OAWorld 2: 2011-2016</i> (links at <a href="https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html">the usual place</a>) and adding some comments on the cover--specifically, a copy of the heatmap, a table with the data used for the heatmap (combined 2015-2016 OAWorld articles per 100,000 population of each country), and another heatmap and table <i>including</i> APCLand articles (which mostly boosts Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to three of the top four spots).</blockquote>
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Intersections: Subject Supplement to <i>GOAJ2 </i> pp. 11-84</h3>
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There won't be a separate paperback and PDF for subjects this year; this long article expands the one-page-per-subject coverage in <i>GOAJ2</i> itself, adding up to six more tables and two graphs for each subject.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-31170067819383879292017-05-19T08:13:00.000-07:002017-05-19T08:13:04.447-07:00Cites & Insights 17:4 (May 2017) available<a href="http://citesandinsights,info/civ17i4.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 17:4</a> (May 2017) is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesandinsights,info/civ17i4.pdf">http://citesandinsights,info/civ17i4.pdf</a><br />
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The 80-page issue consists of an introductory page, a final page, and the first seven chapters of <i>GOAJ2: Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2017.</i>
It's a shorter version--unchanged but omitting sections on subjects and regions.<br />
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If you're downloading the free ebook or purchasing the $6 trade paperback (see <a href="http://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html">here </a>for links), there's no reason to read the issue: you won't learn anything more.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-13948283310929612522017-04-06T12:55:00.002-07:002017-04-06T12:55:20.530-07:00Cites & Insights 17:3 (April 2017) available<a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i3.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 17:3 (April 2017) </a>is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i3.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i3.pdf</a><br />
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The 32-page 6"x9" single-column issue* includes two essays:
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The Art of the Beall pp. 1-20</h3>
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[Hat-tip to Phil Davis for the title.] The blacklists have "disappeared," but not the blather. Almost entirely material from January 16, 2017 to April 3, 2017. And remember that a comprehensive study of journals that were on the lists and their article counts from 2012 through June 30, 2016 is available as <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i1.pdf">C&I 17.1</a>.</blockquote>
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Libraries and Communities pp. 21-32</h3>
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If the first essay's all recent material, this one's not: items date from October 2009 to May 2014. Some thoughts on libraries and/in their communities, mostly by people better qualified to write about these things than I am</blockquote>
*<b>Reminder</b>: <i>Cites & Insights</i> is now optimized for online/tablet reading. If you're printing it out, I recommend having your PDF software print as a booklet, which should require 8 sheets of paper. Very slightly smaller type, good paper efficiency.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-42836649080763554842017-01-03T16:35:00.003-08:002017-01-03T16:35:42.992-08:00Cites & Insighta 17:2 available<a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i2.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 17:2 (February 2017) </a>is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i2.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i2.pdf</a>
The 30-page issue (6" x 9", single column, optimized for online/tablet reading) includes:
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The Front pp. 1-3</h3>
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Announcing the 2016 Cites & Insights Annual and reduced prices for all C&I Annuals; also a change to CC BY (from CC BY-NC) and partial readership notes.</blockquote>
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Technology pp. 4-18</h3>
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Eleven little items spotlighting older (but still relevant) items--and an update on the bandwidth of a 747: it's now 4.7 petabits per second (New York to LA), assuming consumer media--namely a whole bunch of 4 terabyte solid state drives. (As before, the limiting factor is always weight, not space.)</blockquote>
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The Back pp. 18-30</h3>
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The annual update to The Money of Music, and eleven other items or groups of items.</blockquote>
The next issue will <i>probably </i>be on Economics and Access. When that will be...well, I've started the scan for <i>Gold Open Access Journals 2012-2016 </i>(that might turn out to be 2011-2016 if I can figure out how to make the tables readable), and we'll see how that goes.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-59147560166909098672016-12-02T09:21:00.004-08:002016-12-02T09:21:52.119-08:00Cites & Insights Number 200 availableA very special <a href="http://cical.info/civ17i1.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i>, Volume 17, Issue 1</a>, whole number 200, is now available for downloading at <a href="http://cical.info/civ17i1.pdf">http://cical.info/civ17i1.pdf</a> (or at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i1.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ17i1.pdf</a> if you prefer).<br />
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The 72-page 6" x 9" issue is a monograph:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>Gray OA 2012-2016: Open Access Journals Beyond </i>DOAJ</div>
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It's the result of several months of investigation into the <i>rest </i>of gold OA, beyond "serious gold OA" (journals in <i>DOAJ). </i>I liken it to making brandy out of sour grapes, since it relies on Beall's lists as the most complete known lists of "other" OA publishers and journals [journals that are also in <i>DOAJ--</i>a few hundred--aren't included in the monograph].<br />
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This monograph is <i>not </i>available in paperback form; at 72 pages (actually 68 + front matter) it just didn't make sense. It looks at -- gulp -- more than 18,900 journals and "journals," of which 7,743 appear to have published at least one article between 1/1/2012 and 6/30/2016--and, if you're familiar with a certain article claiming 420,000 "predatory" articles in 2014 [Chapter 4 of this monograph deals with that paper], the maximum number of articles for 2014 appears to be 255,183--but only 113,996 of these were in journals on the lists at the time the article was done, and only 29,947 in journals where a legitimate case against the journal or publisher had been made.<br />
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It doesn't look like a typical issue (the first page is a book title page but with the C&I banner at the bottom of the page) and it's distinctly not typical: more effort went into this issue than into a year's worth of typical issues.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-67713101388084868392016-09-13T08:24:00.001-07:002016-09-13T08:24:15.428-07:00Cites & Insights 16:8 availableThe <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i8.pdf">September/October 2016 <i>Cites & Insights</i></a> (16:8) is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i8.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i8.pdf</a><br />
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The print-oriented two-column 8.5x11" issue is 24 pages long. If you plan to read the issue on a computer, tablet or e-reader, you may prefer the 47-page <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i8on.pdf">6x9" single-column "online version"</a> at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i8on.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i8on.pdf</a><br />
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The content in both versions is identical.<br />
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This issue consists of a single essay:
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<h3>
Intersections: Ethics and Access pp. 1-24</h3>
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A much shorter roundup than the previous Ethics and Access piece, still covering a lot of ground, including DOAJ, NEJM and Data Sharing, Sci-Hub, Identifying "Bad Guys," Questionable?, The Aginners, Speaking of Beall... and Miscellany.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-38591567872978762302016-07-28T11:23:00.000-07:002016-07-28T11:23:06.871-07:00Cites & Insights 16:7 (August 2016) available for downloading<a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i7.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 16:7 </a>(August 2016) is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesndinsights.info/civ16i7.pdf">http://citesndinsights.info/civ16i7.pdf</a><br />
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The issue is 22 pages long. Those reading on a computer, tablet, etc. may prefer the <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i7on.pdf">6"x9" single-column version </a>at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i7on.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i7on.pdf</a><br />
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The single-column version is 43 pages long.<br />
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This issue includes the following:
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<h3>
The Front p. 1</h3>
<blockquote>
A quick blurb to announce <a href="http://waltcrawford.name/goajcntr.pdf"><i>The Countries of OAWorld 2011-2015,</i></a> the final ebook/paperback in the Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015 trilogy.</blockquote>
<h3>
Words: Catching Up with Books. E and P pp. 1-17</h3>
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What it says--not only ebooks and [or vs.] print books but other aspects of the book marketplace.</blockquote>
<h3>
The Back pp. 17-22</h3>
<blockquote>
Fifteen snarky little essays, fewer than half on audiophollies.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-45237893603891772692016-06-28T11:36:00.001-07:002016-06-28T11:36:18.459-07:00Cites & Insights 16:6 (July 2016) available<a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i6.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 16:6 (July 2016)</a> is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i6,pdf">citesandinsights.info/civ16i6.pdf</a><br />
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The 2-column print version is 14 pages. If you're reading it online or on a tablet, you may prefer the <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i6on.pdf">27-page 6" x 9" single-column edition</a>.<br />
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This issue includes the following:
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<h3>
The Front pp. 1-2</h3>
<blockquote>
The release of <i>Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015: A Subject Approach </i>and revisions to growth/shrinkage tables in both books, and a quick update on the final piece: <i>The Countries of OAWorld, </i>out sometime in July.</blockquote>
<h3>
Media: Of Magazines and Newspapers pp. 2-14</h3>
<blockquote>
It's been two years since a magazine roundup (and I repeat some of that essay, with updates) and much longer since notes on newspapers. This piece offers some stats and comments on both--neither of which is going away or going all-digital any time soon.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-63276153248920234032016-06-01T11:34:00.001-07:002016-06-01T11:34:12.686-07:00Cites & Insights 16:5 (June 2016) availableThe June 2016 issue of <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i5on,pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i></a> (volume 16, issue 5) is now available for downloading.<br />
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The issue consists of a brief introduction and excerpts from <i>Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015</i>--roughly one-third of the book.<br />
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The link above is to the single-column 6x9" version intended for online/tablet reading, because the page size and column width are the same as the book. That version, <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i5on.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i5on.pdf</a>, is 74 pages long.<br />
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The two-column print-oriented version at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i5.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i5.pdf</a> is 32 pages long, but some tables have very small type.<br />
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The July issue may be on a non-OA topic. If there is a July issue: I'm working on two bonus book-length supplements to the book.waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-89459110164130662312016-04-26T15:27:00.002-07:002016-04-26T15:27:28.013-07:00Cites & Insights 16:4 (May 2016) availableThe <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i4.pdf">May 2016 issue of<i> Cites & Insights</i></a><i>,</i> volume 16 issue 4, is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i4.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i4.pdf</a><br />
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The issue is 13 pages long.<br />
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If you're reading it online or on a tablet, you may prefer the one-column 6"x9" edition at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i4on.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i4on.pdf</a>. That version is 26 pages long (and lacks one extraneous paragraph).<br />
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The short but meaty issue includes:
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<h3>
The Front p. 1</h3>
<blockquote>
Why it's short.</blockquote>
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Intersections: Two Worlds of Gold OA: APCLand and OAWorld pp. 2-5</h3>
<blockquote>
A preview of some key data from <i>Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015, </i>offered partly because I believe it is a new and useful way of looking at gold OA and am inviting feedback (fairly soon, since I'll start on the book next week).</blockquote>
<h3>
Policy: Google Books: The Final Chapter? pp. 6-13</h3>
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The Supreme Court won't hear the Authors Guild appeal of the appeals court's decision in Google's favor. Maybe--<i>maybe</i>--the decade-long struggle is over. That's worth a quick roundup of Google Books items since the last roundup.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-25655069302361540502016-03-23T16:05:00.001-07:002016-03-23T16:05:14.285-07:00Cites & Insights 16:3 (April 2016) availableThe <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i3.pdf" target="_blank">April 2016 <i>Cites & Insights</i> (16:3)</a> is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i3.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i3.pdf</a><br />
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That print-oriented version is 30 pages long.<br />
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If you're planning to read online or on an ereader, you may prefer the<a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i3on.pdf" target="_blank"> single-column 6" x 9" version</a>, 59 pages long, available at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i3on.pdf" target="_blank">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i3on.pdf</a><br />
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While much of this issue has appeared as a series of posts in this blog, the final section of the lead essay is new, as is the fourth essay; the final section reprints 35 pages of <i>The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014 </i>to serve as context for a portion of the first essay.<br />
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This issue includes:
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<h3>
The Front: Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015: A SPARC Project pp. 1-8</h3>
<blockquote>
Remember the "watch this space" note in the February-March "The Front"? This is what it was about. This essay includes the key announcement, a partial list of changes from the 2011-2014 project, a partial checkpoint prepared when I was halfway through the first pass, a section asking for possible "changes for the better" in the analysis and writeup (note that this year's PDF ebook will be free and OA, since it's a SPARC-sponsored project), another section discussing the planned anonymization of the (free) spreadsheet when analysis is done--and, new to this issue, a second checkpoint prepared at the end of the first journal pass.</blockquote>
<h3>
The Front (also): Readership Notes pp. 8-9</h3>
<blockquote>
Notes on the most frequently downloaded issues in Volume 15 and the most frequently downloaded issues overall.</blockquote>
<h3>
Intersections: "Trust Me": The Other Problem with Beall's Lists pp. 9-11</h3>
<blockquote>
As far as I can tell, Jeffrey Beall provides no evidence whatsoever--not even his classic "this publisher has a funny name"--for seven out of eight journals and publishers on his 2016 lists. This piece, which has a little additional material beyond the original post, goes into some detail.</blockquote>
<h3>
The Back pp. 11-12</h3>
<blockquote>
Not precisely filler to get an even number of pages, but...OK, so these three mini-rants are mostly filler to get an even number of pages.</blockquote>
<h3>
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014, pp. 39-73 following page 12</h3>
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I'm including chapters 5 (starting dates), 6 (country of publication), 7 (segments and subjects), 8 (biology and medicine) and 9 (biology) to provide more context for my invitation to suggest better ways to analyze and present the 2011-2015 data. Please note that these pages appear <i>precisely </i>as they would in the PDF ebook if you're looking at the online 6" x 9" version (since the book's 6"x9"), but are reduced very slightly for the print-oriented version (to 5.5"x8.5") so that two book pages will fit on one printed page.</blockquote>
<h2>
Next issue?</h2>
I did not label this the April-May 2016 issue. Whether there's a May issue in late April or early May, or a May-June issue later in May, depends on a number of factors having mostly to do with <i>Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015.</i>waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941317.post-60023213231869428552016-01-02T08:17:00.006-08:002016-01-02T08:17:56.137-08:00Cites & Insights 16:2 (February-March 2016) available<a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i2.pdf"><i>Cites & Insights</i> 16:2</a> (February-March 2016) is now available for downloading at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i2.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i2.pdf</a><br />
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The double issue is 46 pages long.<br />
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If you're reading online or on a tablet or other e-device, you may prefer the<a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i2on.pdf"> single-column 6"x9" version</a>, which is 89 pages long and available at <a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i2on.pdf">http://citesandinsights.info/civ16i2on.pdf</a><br />
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The issue includes:
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<h3>
The Front p. 1</h3>
<blockquote>
A placeholder of sorts.</blockquote>
<h3>
Intersections: Economics and Access pp. 1-46</h3>
<blockquote>
Embargoes, costs, spending, Lingua/Glossa, flipping and more.</blockquote>
waltchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.com