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VOLUME 37, NUMBER 1
FEBRUARY 2025 TM
ISSN: 1043-2094
“Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians”
Cost of OA on Print Book Revenue Guest Edited by Erich van Rijn
(Director, University of California Press)
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THIS ISSUE: Monographs, Open Access, and the Persistence of Print........... 13 Why Purchase Print if the eBook is OA?: A Librarian’s Perspective................................. 16 Print Revenue for Open Access Monographs: Key Findings and More Questions......................... 17 Threat or Advantage?: Quantifying the Impact of OA on Print Revenues..................... 19
REGULAR COLUMNS
Begins on Page 13
Bet You Missed It....................... 10 Reader’s Roundup..................... 20 Booklover.................................... 24 Questions and Answers............ 25 And They Were There............... 27 Don’s Conference Notes........... 29 Seeing the Whole Board.......... 30 Libraries, Leadership, and Synergies.................................... 33 Wandering the Web.................. 36 Biz of Digital............................... 39 The Digital Toolbox.................. 43 Optimizing Library Services.... 45 Back Talk..................................... 56
If Rumors Were Horses
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ey y’all! Is it spring yet? This winter weather needs to GO! Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow though, so we must struggle through a few more weeks. So, let’s get to it!
ChatGPT Intro I asked ChatGPT to write the introductory paragraph, and this was the outcome:
INTERVIEWS
Prompt: Write an opening paragraph for Katina Strauch’s “If Rumors Were Horses” column in Against the Grain for February 2025. Reply: Certainly! Here’s a possible opening paragraph for Katina Strauch’s If Rumors Were Horses column in Against the Grain, February 2025: “Well, folks, here we are — February already! Time sure does gallop along, and the world of libraries, publishing, and scholarly communication isn’t slowing down either. There’s plenty of chatter about AI’s growing influence in research workflows, the latest publisher mergers shaking up the market, and of course, the ever-evolving landscape of open access. Meanwhile, conference season is sneaking up on us again, and you can bet there are some continued on page 8
Alicia Wise.................................. 47 Lorraine Estelle......................... 47 Dr. Mark Hahnel......................... 51
PROFILES ENCOURAGED People, Library and Company Profiles........................................ 53 Plus more...................... See inside