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Eight candidates running for seats on TAA Council
Eight candidates are running for three open positions on the TAA Council. Former TAA President John Wakefield is running unopposed for Vice President/President-Elect. TAA members R. Thomas Berner, Robert Christopherson, Christopher R. Harris, Sandra M. Harris, Kevin Patton, Michael Lennie and Barbara Waxer are running for two open seats on the TAA Council.
Ballots will be mailed to members this week. Deadline for receipt of ballots is April 15.
View candidate position statements and bios
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TAA announces 2011 Texty, McGuffey Award winners
Seven textbooks were awarded 2011 TAA Textbook Excellence Awards (Texty), which recognize excellence in current textbooks and learning materials. Six textbooks were awarded 2011 TAA McGuffey Longevity Awards (McGuffey), which recognize textbooks and learning materials whose excellence has been demonstrated over time.
View the award winners
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Open textbook wins 2011 Textbook Excellence Award
Organizational Behavior, an open textbook  available online for free, was one of seven books awarded a 2011 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) by TAA. This is the first time that an open textbook has won a Texty, notes Richard Hull, TAA's executive director, and signals the emergence of a new publishing model. Read OrganizationalBehavior, by Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan, at flatworldknowledge.com. More |
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Marketing strategies: Free ebooks
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Michael Griffin's MBA Fundamentals: Accounting and Finance, was one of 140 Kaplan Publishing digital titles available for free download.
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By Kim Pawlak
Kaplan Publishing decided to
take advantage ofthe high volume of e-reader sales after the holidays by offering digital versions of 140 of its educational titles for a limited time.
More than 1.8 million ebooks were downloaded by Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Sony eReader owners who took advantage of Kaplan's free ebook offer between January 5 and January 17, 2011, said Tim Brazier, director of publicity, Kaplan Publishing.
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Getting the most out of peer reviews
By Dionne Soares Palmer Rather than seeing the peer review process as negative, veteran academic authors William Stallings and Francine McKenzie encourage authors to see it as a valuable opportunity to improve their work. McKenzie, an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, said authors should see peer reviews as part of a process of improving a piece and one's writing skills in general. "Think of peer review as more an intellectual exchange than a judgment," she said. "With this mindset, authors can approach peer review with enthusiasm instead of apprehension." More |
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4/13 Webinar:
Copyright in Motion: What You Need to Know About Sharing Content in Today's Social Media Environment
1 p.m. ET
Christopher Kenneally from the Copyright Clearance Center will share the copyright implications of using social networking sites to share copyright protected materials.
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Podcast: Understanding Trademarks & Book Titles
Stephen E. Gillen, Attorney at Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P., shares what trademarks have to do with book titles, what a book's copyright covers, and how and when a title can be protected in this interview on TAA's blogtalkradio show. |
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TAA Council member quoted in science journal
TAA Council Member Michael Sullivan, professor of mathematics and computer science at Chicago State University, was quoted in a March 4, 2011 article in the journal Science, "Taken for Granted: Scarlet Letters," about the controversy over former postdoc Pedro Cánovas single-authored article "Survivin Mediates Cdk1 Activation via Cdc25B Early in Mitosis" in the September 28, 2010 issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC). |
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2010 TAA Conference session featured on Beyond the Book
Freelance editor Laura Poole's 2010 TAA Conference session, "Fine-Tuning Your Work," is featured on the Copyright Clearance Center's Beyond the Book program.
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Busy TAA People:
Frank Christ writing weekly newspaper column
TAA member Frank Christ, a distance education textbook author, is writing a weekly column, "Dear Prof" for the Sierra Vista Herald (Sierra Vista, AZ). The column answers learning or study skills questions. Read his 2/26/2011 Dear Prof column. Share your news |
Applications being accepted for 2011 TAA Publication Grants
TAA is accepting applications for grants of up to $750 to cover expenses incurred in publishing already accepted print academic journal articles and books including academic journal page costs or university press subventions; the cost of preparing artwork or other charts, diagrams, or images to be included in accepted journal articles or academic books; and journal reprint costs.
Full grant requirements Apply for a Publication Grant |
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2011 TAA
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24th Annual
TAA Conference
"Let Your Writing Soar!"
Learn from and network with your textbook and academic author peers and industry leaders by participating in sessions, roundtable discussions, and networking events at the 2011 TAA Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 24-25 at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Writing and Publishing Your Scholarly Journal Article
Keynote Speaker: Robert Christopherson, author of Geosystems, "Geo-primer: Enchantment, TAA, and Albuquerque"
Interactive Educational Sessions:
General & Academic and Textbook Track
Moderated, Small-Group Roundtable Discussions
Networking Opportunities:
Hospitality Networking Suite
Group Trip to Sandia Peak Tramway
Mentoring
Welcome Orientation Breakfast
Registration Information:
Hotel & Travel Info
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Register early and receive two free books! The first 30 conference registrants will receive two free books, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook, and It Works For Me: Becoming a Publishing Scholar/Researcher.
Listen to 8 podcasts from the 2010 TAA Conference: click here
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Network with other members on TAA listservs
Network with your fellow members, ask questions, and share your expertise on the TAA Textbook Authoring Listserv and/or Academic Authoring Listserv.
Subscribe to the Textbook Authoring Listserv by sending an email to TAATextbookAuthoring-on@mail-list.com No subject line and nothing in the message field.
Subscribe to the Academic Authoring Listserv by sending an email to TAAAcademicAuthoring-on@mail-list.com No subject line and nothing in the message field.
You can switch to the Digest version of the Textbook Authoring Listserv, in which you receive only one email message per week with all that week's posts contained within it, by sending an email to TAATextbookAuthoring-switch@mail-list.com once you have been subscribed. To switch to the Digest version of the Academic Authoring Listserv, send an email to TAAAcademicAuthoring-switch@mail-list.com once you have been subscribed.
After you are subscribed to the Textbook Authoring Listserv, send messages to TAATextbookAuthoring@mail-list.com
After you are subscribed to the Academic Authoring Listserv, send messages to TAAAcademicAuthoring@mail-list.com
Read the archives for both Listservs: www.taaonline.net/membersonly/listservs
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Disclaimer: TAA has not tested nor endorses nor opposes any product or procedure recommended or referenced in any TAA publications, audio conferences, or workshops.
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