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Licensing and Managing Electronic Resources
Becky Albitz
List price: $69.95 (Paperback)
Book Description
"Libraries are licensing information resources in greater numbers than ever before. In order to negotiate and manage the ever-increasing resulting number of licenses resulting from this trend, libraries are either establishing Electronic Resource (ER) Librarian positions, or have been assigning these responsibilities to current staff. In either case, few resources are available to acclimate new ER librarians to the diverse responsibilities associated with their position. Helping fill this gap, this book offers an introduction and practical guide to the standard responsibilities ER librarians address daily. These include: knowing the rights libraries have as consumers of information under United States copyright law, understanding licensing terms and conditions, negotiating licenses to support the specific needs of the subscribing institution, and managing these resources once subscribed. Although every college and university is different, this book provides a framework within which the new ER librarian can learn the basics behind negotiating and managing their information resources effectively."
Indexing for Editors and Authors: A Practical Guide to Understanding Indexes (American Society of Indexers)
Fred Leise, Kate Mertes, and Nan Badgett
List price: $40.00 (Paperback)
Book Description
"At last an indexing guide for editors, authors, and designers who need to create, edit, format, or evaluate indexes and work with professional indexers. Three experienced indexer-authors explain the various types of indexes, the characteristics of good indexes, and common formatting considerations. They share dozens of practical tips and over 100 examples of good and bad indexing practices. Publishing professionals will not only learn how to edit an index, but how to hire freelance indexers and maintain successful editor/author/indexer relationships. While geared to the needs of publishing professionals who are not indexers, the book will serve indexers as a guide to navigating the publishing process and explaining indexing processes to their clients."
Word 2007: The Missing Manual
Chris Grover
List price: $29.99 (Paperback)
Book Description
"Microsoft Word has grown considerably in power, sophistication and capability over the past decade, but one thing that hasn't changed since the early '90s is its user interface. The simple toolbar in version 2.0 has been packed with so many features since then that few users know where to find them all. Consequently, more and more people are looking for "insider" tips that will allow them to use these advanced and often hidden features. Microsoft has addressed this problem in Word 2007 by radically redesigning the user interface with a tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate and use. Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation is as scant as ever, so even though you will be able to find advanced features, you might not know what to do with them. Word 2007: The Missing Manual, written specifically for this version of the software, explains basics like how to create documents, enter and edit text, format, print, and fax. You will will also learn how to create sophisticated page layouts, insert forms and tables, use graphics, and create book-length documents with outlines and Master Documents. Coverage also includes how to share documents with other people and programs, create web pages, automate documents with fields, and automate tasks with macros and the Visual Basic scripting language."
AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors
JAMA & Archives Journals
List price: $55.00 (Hardcover)
Book Description
"For decades indispensable, the AMA Manual of Style continues to provide editorial support to the medical and scientific publishing community. Since the 1998 publication of the 9th edition, however, the world of medical publishing has rapidly modernized, and the intersection of research and publishing has become ever more complex. The 10th edition of the AMA Manual of Style brings this definitive manual into the 21st century with a broadened international perspective. In doing so, the 10th edition has expanded its electronic guidelines, with the understanding that authors now routinely submit articles through online systems and often cite Web-only content. Ethical and legal issues receive increased attention, with detailed guidelines on authorship, conflicts of interest, scientific misconduct, intellectual property, and the protection of individuals' rights in scientific research and publication. The new edition examines research ethics and editorial independence and features new material on indexing and searching as well as medical nomenclature."
What the critics are saying ...
Chronicle of Higher Education
"The 10th edition instructs writers how to attach audio and video clips, as well as links to Web-based supplementary material. It also instructs them how to reference research that, in addition to books pulled from the library stacks, might include Web sites, messages from e-mail lists, or online-conference proceedings...The new Oxford University Press verison also has an expanded, 175-page chapter on ethical and legal concerns, including conflict of interest, scientific misconduct, intellectual-property rights, and protection of research subjects' rights in scientific research and publication."
Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors
Hardcover, 680 pages, Seventh Edition
Book Description
"Scientific Style and Format is an authoritative reference for authors, editors, publishers, students, and translators in all areas of science and related fields.The seventh edition of this useful resource, compiled by the Style Manual Committee of the Council for Science Editors, has been fully updated and expanded to reflect changes in recommendations from authoritative international bodies.
"New chapters cover the responsibilities of authors, editors, and peer reviewers in scientific publication and discuss copyright requirements and practices. The chapters on books and journals provide advice pertinent to both electronic and print publication, and authoritative online resources are listed where available. The Manual covers both American and British styles. According to the CSE, 'Everyone involved in scientific publishing should have the seventh edition of Scientific Style and Format on hand.'"
To order, go to www.csemanual.org
Book Publishing Encyclopedia
Dan Poynter
Para Publishing, 2006, Paperback.
"Dan Poynter’s Book Publishing Encyclopedia is the 'Book Publishing Answer Book.' It has thousands of tips and references in an easy-to-use alphabetical encyclopedia. Each fact, figure, resource or reference in its 222 pages, links to a specific page on a web site for more information.
"Poynter’s Encyclopedia is available in softcover, large print and four types of eBook. All are laid out alphabetically -- A through Z and have a voluminous index.The eBook editions also may be searched electronically.
"Keep this reference within easy reach; you will refer to it often. When you have questions, this book will supply the answers and they will be easy to find."
(From the Para Publishing Website. For more information on Poynter's many books on publishing, visit http://www.parapublishing.com).
Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print —
and How to Avoid Them
Bill Walsh
Published by Contemporary Books, Paperback, 246 pages
Style Manual Released in 2000 Stands the Test of Time!
Reviewed by: Vikki Newton
Lapsing into a Comma is a stylebook that author Bill Walsh describes as "a mix of traditionalism (never, ever, use which when you mean that) with a streak of liberalism (don't believe what you've heard about hopefully)." Featuring 10 chapters that cover a wide range of style issues from "Beyond Search and Replace (Using Your Head as Well as Your Stylebook)" to "Holding the Virtual Fort (Disturbing Trends in the Information Age)," to "Giving 110 Percent (Why you Needed Those Math Classes After All)," to "Dash It All, Period (The Finer Points of Punctuation)", Walsh's book is full of tried-and-true rules doled out with passion and discussed with more than a little tongue in cheek.
This reference book would come in handy to new and experienced writers alike, and while Walsh insists that it is a style manual for newspapers, it certainly could be applied to many types of publications. Walsh's sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, and always outspoken commentary on the many idiosyncrasies that writers face as they ply their craft makes this style guide memorable. Even after working many years in publishing, I learned quite a few things and found myself smiling as I read. Books about grammar, punctuation, and other such topics can be dry, but not so in this case. This is not only a handy reference, it's a good read.