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The Latest Pew Report on The State of the News Media
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by Paula J. Hane
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Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism published "The State of the News Media 2013," a study that concluded the U.S. has a "news industry that is more undermanned and unprepared to uncover stories, dig deep into emerging ones, or to question information put into its hands." Overall, "Online was the only category of news that showed growth." I'd say that's a fairly dreary and pessimistic outlook, as did many of the media outlets reporting the results of the study. Thankfully, there were actually some bright spots in the report that highlighted some of the evolutionary changes occurring. But, Matthew Yglesias, writing in Slate, says, "Ignore the doomsayers: The news-reading public has never had more and better information at their fingertips."
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New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries
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OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries. Yelp, the popular local directory service, agreed to be one of the first to work with OCLC on this new program. The initial phase of the program will focus on public and academic libraries in the U.S. Subsequent phases will include new partners to address additional library types and regions.
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Elsevier and O’Reilly Media Sign New Ebook Distribution Deal
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Elsevier, a provider of STM information products and services, and technology publisher O'Reilly Media announced that O'Reilly will distribute many of Elsevier's academic, research-focused ebooks. This expands the depth of ebooks available from O'Reilly in areas such as computer security and networking, and includes leading imprints such as Morgan Kaufmann, Syngress, Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Newnes, and Elsevier with more than 1,200 individual titles.
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Publishers’ Online Communities to Double by 2015
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The number of publisher-owned online communities is set to more than double over the next 2 years, according to new research released April 17, 2013 by Publishing Technology at The London Book Fair. The study, conducted by Bowker Market Research, a service of ProQuest affiliate Bowker, found that two-thirds of responding publishers currently host reader communities, and that this is set to rise to more than 90% over the next 2 years.
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Elsevier Acquires Mendeley
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by Barbara Brynko
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For some industry onlookers, the news that Elsevier acquired Mendeley in early April came as no surprise. But the initial rumors in late December/early January about the possible sale shook the foundations of the research community. And just as the buzz seemed to die down, the rumors became reality on April 8, 2013, and refueled the controversy. Researchers were getting accustomed to Mendeley's social science platform and in sharing resources and data amid a growing community of like-minded users, and then it all seemed to change overnight.
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The Wild West of MOOCs
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by Abby Clobridge
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Hardly a day goes by without a story appearing in a major new outlet about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). While most of the headlines—including this one—reference MOOCs, the real issues are quite broad in scope, covering everything from whether higher education as we know it is on the verge of combusting, to big, bold experiments using technology to deliver education in transformative ways on a global scale. While the exact discussions seem to change on a constant basis, some of the current hot topics include proposed legislation in California, the swirl of possibilities around business models for so-called xMOOCs, and increased demand for production and availability of open textbooks.
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