Monday, July 31, 2006
Last time I was stuck in this godforsaken place and blogged it I was chastised as a a first-class travelling plutocratic publisher of no worth. So I`d better not moan about delays,lousy service, lousy signage, grumpy staff and attitudes more reminiscent of 1960s Britain than I care to remember. So let`s celebrate Tim Coates`s recovery of his own blog Good Library Blog - see Blogroll - which he`s managed to hijack back from the dastardly hijackers - and has celebrated the doubling of book purchases by libraries in Ulster. The scandal of diminishing book budgets in libraries (as opposed to the burgeoning of`other outreach activities`) would never have been noticed without Tim`s crusade. and it matters - see the comments on my previous blog. Aux barricades mes amis pour les bibliotheques - and please will someone privatise Air France properly as soon as possible.
7/31/2006 6:55:45 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Richard, perhaps a read of this news will help to break the tedium of Charles de Gaulle airport.

http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/7015

"British Library led partnership chosen to run UK PubMed Central"

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"Based on a model currently used in the United States, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) will provide free access to an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences."



8/1/2006 3:50:00 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
I'm absolutely delighted that the BL has won this contract. They are a law-abiding copyright respecting organisation which recognises commercial realities as well as scholarly ideals. There could be no better partner for publishers or scientists in this endeavour - and I'm not just saying that because I sit on one of their strategy committees!
8/1/2006 5:30:54 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
I wish someone would tell me what strategy is - when not used in a Battles context.
8/7/2006 7:34:01 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Ah, the French!

I once spent some time at Charles de Gaulle and wasn't too impressed (the champagne helped ease the strain). But then I remembered Gatwick.

Wherever you are in the world - home is good, home is best.
8/8/2006 7:11:55 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Strategy in publishing is when you overpay for an acquisition.