More and more newspapers are shifting their online business models to compensate their declining print circulation numbers. The Wall Street Journal is no exception. The New York Times reported yesterday that Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, anticipates dropping the online subscription price for WSJ.com after the completion of News Corp’s acquisition of Dow Jones & Company, publisher of WSJ. This is all well and good, but expect more ads on the website - increased advertising revenues will make up for the loss of the subscription rates.
You can always read the print edition of the Wall Street Journal here at the Library on the first floor in Periodicals or online via Proquest, free and without the ads.
full article: Murdoch Intends to Drop WSJ.com Fee - New York Times
Through support of Student Tech Fee, faculty and students now have access to Sage Journals Online, a collection of about 450 journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.
You can view SAGE’s complete offerings, both alphabetically and by topic, by going to the Browse Journals page.
A tutorial has been created to demonstrate how to set up personalized search alerts for SAGE - you can get the table of contents of journals you pick e-mailed right to your address.
Since it is a paid subscription, there is no limit on the number of articles you can link for course reading. For assistance in linking to specific articles on your reading list, contact Carolyn Doyle (doylec@uww.edu) or Patty Fragola (fragolap@uww.edu).
SAGE Journals Online
How do you expand your publishing business and make more money? Most would not respond by giving away your product for free, but that’s just what Reed Elsevier is going to do. They’ve decided to go out on a limb and offer the latest articles and research from 100 of their top medical journals for free. Oncology by OncologyStat targets doctors and other practitioners to register to receive access to hundreds of thousands of dollars of content. Like other free web services, like Facebook or MySpace, they’re looking to survive and profit from advertising sold for the site as well as selling user information.
Why does this matter? It’s huge because it is shifting costs from the institutions and professionals that need that information to perform their critical work to the advertisers that want to sell them stuff. Furthermore, it’s an opportunity for others to get a hold of cutting edge research (if they can sift through the medical jargon).
Now you may be familiar with Elsevier, as we subscribe to ScienceDirect College Edition (
). You already have access to over four years worth of content from more than 1800 journals, which means you probably don’t need to sign up for the website.
original story reported in the New York Times
The University now has a campus-wide subscription to the online version of the Chronicle of Higher Education!
To access the subscription while on campus, you can go directly to the Chronicle’s web site at http://chronicle.com. If off campus, connect via the library EZProxy using the following link.
Access is free and open to all UWW faculty, staff and students.
You are encouraged to subscribe to Academe Today, The Chronicle’s Daily Report. Anyone can sign up to receive this free e-newsletter once they have created a Chronicle account. Visit their website for more information and to start the sign-up process. You will also find a listing of all available e-mail newsletters and how to receive the Chronicle headline service via RSS feeds.
Highlights of coverage in addition to what you are familiar with in the paper version include:
- Daily Web updates on the latest news in higher education.
- Searchable archives of back issues. Unlimited access to every news article and essay published by The Chronicle since 1989.
- Online access to The Almanac of Higher Education, an annual report from The Chronicle since 1995. View data, demographics, enrollment, staff salaries, tuition fees, test scores, and more state by state.
- Regular updates on current grant opportunities.
- Several thousand of the best job opportunities in the academic world, updated daily.
- Career advice and counseling, for beginners and experienced academics alike.
- Employer profiles providing in-depth information for job candidates.
- Essays and opinion articles from all issues of The Chronicle Review.
- Participation in online discussions about issues and controversies featured in The Chronicle.
- Licensing revenues and patent activity at universities from fiscal 1994 to present.
- Listings of forthcoming events in higher education.
The subscription is made possible through funding support from Interim Chancellor Telfer.
