Cites & Insights -- Crawford at Large -- Volume 16, Number 1: January 2016

" ... Year beginnings are traditional times to take stock of how it’s going and propose resolutions intentions for the new year. Of course, this essay isn’t being written in the new year; the first draft is being written in late November 2015, and I’ll touch it up just before publishing the issue. So I won’t discuss ongoing readership patterns (if I do that, it’s usually in the February issue), but I will offer a few notes. First, the books ... [1] The paperback edition of Cites & Insights, volume 15, 2015, is 354 pages long, including table of contents, 11 issues, and two indices that only appear in the book. As always, it’s 8.5” x 11” and printed on 60# white paper; it’s a handsome book. The price is $45; roughly half of that goes to support C&I and open access research. Highlights include ... [2] The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014 ... The paperback is $60 (or less with occasional discounts; I think B&N and Amazon are both selling it for $53 at the moment). There’s also a site-licensed PDF ebook version for $55, only available from Lulu (apparently the other vendors won’t accept PDFs, and my attempt to turn this into an ePub resulted in a pretty sad ePub, largely because of all the tables and graphs). When I say 'site-licensed,' I mean that the copyright statement clearly says an institution can make the PDF available to its users within one site (that is, a campus or equivalent) without regard to how many use it at any one time ..."