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Funding for Open Access Publishing

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The open access (OA) movement has a lot of moving parts. For example it has led some research funding agencies to mandate that research publications resulting from grants should be made publicly available. A recent memo from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy requires federal science agencies to prepare a policy for making the published results of scientific research available to the public. The Smithsonian Institution is now working to formalize its policy. Continue reading →

Alternative Methods of Research Evaluation

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Alt Metrics ExamplesThe evaluation of research quality is a task which is attracting attention as the world turns more and more to evidence-based decision making. The work of scientists and historians are regularly reviewed by institutional administrators to ensure a high quality of scholarship and to determine where to deploy scarce resources. One of the most relied-upon components of research assessment is the review of publications authored by a particular scholar. And although publications are difficult to objectively evaluate, the standard method for many years was to use the journal impact factor. This method measured the number of times the articles from a particular journal were subsequently cited by other publications, for which a numeric score was assigned to the journal. It soon became prestigious for scholars to have their papers published in a journal with a high impact factor. Continue reading →

Featuring: The model menagerie

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Featuring a title from the Libraries' pop-up book collection and current exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn.

In the 1890s Nuremburg publisher Ernest Nister created several high-quality, illustrated, and innovative pop-up and movable books. He is best known for refining Dean & Son’s dissolving image slat books by creating pictures with horizontal and vertical slits and developing a device to transform pictures in circular forms. Nister also perfected a way to display multi-layered, three-dimensional scenes so that figures, like the deer and the cage here, seem to lift off and float atop the page surface. As a page is opened, a tab attached to the facing page, allows the layers of figures in the adjacent page to automatically pop-up. These Panorama Picture Books were popular and were widely marketed in England and America by Dutton.—Stephen Van Dyk

The model menagerie: with natural history stories. L.L. Weedon, Evelyn Fletcher, and others. London: E. Nister ; New York: E.P. Dutton, [ca.1895].

 

All the News That’s Fit to Print …

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Detail of a New York Times Advertisement – 1895, Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs.—Wikimedia Commons

The first issue of what would become The New York Times was published on September 18, 1851. The newspaper’s founders, Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, initially titled their publication The New-York Daily Times. In the premier issue Raymond and George announced:

"We publish today the first issue of the New-York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come."

In 1857 the publishers changed the paper’s name to its current title, The New York Times. After the onset of the Civil War, readers began to demand news every day of the week. The Times began publishing a Sunday edition in April of 1861.

The paper’s iconic slogan, “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” was coined in 1896 by Adolph S. Ochs, who acquired the publication in the same year. The catchphrase, which first appeared on the paper’s front page on February 10, 1897, was chosen to highlight the Times’s commitment to journalistic integrity.

Despite its specifically regional title, The New York Times has become what many consider to be the most respected newspaper in the United States, providing coverage of national and international events, entertainment, business, sports, arts and opinion editorials for readers worldwide. The Times has won over 100 Pulitzer Prizes for journalistic excellence. Though the Times is not the U.S. paper with the largest overall distribution, the Sunday edition is the nation’s largest, with an average circulation of 1.38 million copies.

In September 2010, speaking at the WAN-IFRA 9th International Newsroom Summit in London, The Times’s current publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. indicated in that remaining competitive in the face of a plethora of online news sources may eventually require the paper to seriously consider ending its print edition in the future. No specific time frame for discontinuing the print editions was given.

—Conrad Ziyad

Links/Sources:

http://www.nytco.com

http://www.nytimes.com/

http://www.nytco.com/company/milestones/timeline.html

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/newspaper-circulation-wsj-bucks-the-downward-trend/19454284/

Related:

One hundred years of famous pages from the New York times, 1851-1951; / with an introd. by Henry Steele Commager.

The New York times [microform].

The New York times magazine.

Featuring: Dean’s New Book of Dissolving Views

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Featuring a title from the Libraries' pop-up book collection and current exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn.

Dean & Son, an innovative British publisher of children’s books from the 1840s-1880s, used lithography processes to illustrate large numbers of novelty and toy books with movable parts. In the 1860s, they were instrumental in inventing the pull-tab mechanism that when activated would move figures on the surface of the page. Dean called these pull tabs images “living pictures”.  In Dean’s New Book of Dissolving Views, the scene changes on the page surface as a venetian blind slat mechanism moves into place as the tab is activated. This novelty book illustrates themes of contrast. In pulling the tab, an image of war is transformed into a serene pastoral scene representing peace, and images of air change into pictures of earth.

—Stephen Van Dyk

Dean’s New Book of Dissolving Views. London: Dean & Son, 1860.