Cites & Insights Annuals

Last few months to buy these annuals!

It appears that it's been more than five years since anybody except me has purchased any of these.

Given that( (perhaps unsurprising) total lack of interest, I'm planning to delete these books from Lulu some time in December 2025.

If you wish to buy one or more of them, you've been alerted.

Paperback annual volumes of Cites & Insights are available for all but the first five volumes. Each volume is 8.5" x 11" and includes all issues as originally paginated plus indexes to those issues. Each volume from 2009 on includes an overall table of contents.

Each volume except 2007 and 2011 has a wraparound cover based on a photo taken by Linda Driver (my wife) during our travels; volume 6 has two photos, one on the front and one on the back, and volume 11 has a single photo on the front.

Volume 6 (2006) includes an exclusive introduction. Volume 7 (2007) includes the special non-issue Cites on a Plane, which was only available online for two weeks in January 2007 and is now only available in the 2007 annual volume.

Each volume 6-10 costs $35. Volumes 11-19 are now $20 each.

This page shows the size, price and a few highlights for each volume, and a small version of the full cover (except for 2007 and 2011 where portions appear).

Jump to: 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

2006

Volume 6 (2006) -- 388 pages, $35

Highlights of this 14-issue volume include:

Library 2.0 and "Library 2.0"--the most widely-read essay in the history of C&I
The Diamond Anniversary issue, 75 brief essays
Finding a Balance: Libraries and Librarians
Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle
Pioneer OA Journals, a two-part essay
and, of course, much, much more

2007

Volume 7 (2007) -- 405 pages, $35

(The actual cover was created using Lulu's cover wizard for the spine, which does not appear here.)

Highlights of this 13 (plus 1)-issue volume include:

Cites on a Plane: The Phantom Edition, selected reprints from the previous 18 months
Civility and Codes: A Blogging Morality Play
Cites on a Plane 2--all about the conference life
August 2007, the (almost) all-philosophy issue: on the literature, on authority, worth and linkbaiting, on disagreement and discussion, on ethics and transparency.
and dozens of shorter essays

2008

Volume 8 (2008) -- 346 pages, $35

Highlights of this 12-issue volume include:

Discovering Books: An OCA and GBS Retrospective
Thinking About Kindle and Ebooks
TechNos and TechMusts
On Semantics, Reality, Learning and Rockstars
Updating the Book Discovery Projects
On Conferences in a Time of Limits
Libraries and the Social Web
How Common is Common Language?
Writing About Reading
and much, much more

2009

Volume 9 (2009) -- 434 pages, $35

Highlights of this 13-issue volume (the largest to date and, with luck, the largest ever) include:

A was for AAC: A Discursive Glossary, Rethought and Expanded
Making it Work: Shiny Toys or Useful Tools? (Blogs and wikis in libraries)
The Google Books Search Settlement (a whole-issue essay)
Making it Work: Thinking about Blogging, Parts 1, 2 and 3
Writing about Reading 2, 3 and 4
Public Library Blogs and Academic Library Blogs
The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008: A Lateral Look
On Privatization
Library 2.0 Revisited
Public and Academic Library Blogs: Limited Updates
Copyright Currents: Musings on Fair Use
Library Access to Scholarship (a whole-issue essay on OA)
Making it Work: Purpose, Values and All That Jazz
as always, much, much more in this enormous volume

2010

Volume 10 (2010) -- 419 pages, $35

Highlights of this 12-issue volume include:

Making it Work: Thinking about Blogging 4 and 5
Trends and Forecasts
Making it Work: Philosophy and Future
Writing about Reading 5: Going Down Slow
On Disconnecting and Reconnecting
The Zeitgeist: hypePad and buzzkill
Old Media/New Media
The Zeitgeist: There is No Future
The Zeitgeist: One Facebook to Rule Them All?
On Words, Meaning and Context
But Still They Blog: The Liblog Landscape 2007-2009 (an issue-length/book-length essay)
and more

2011

Volume 11 (2011) -- 290 pages, $20

The left two-thirds (or so) of the photo above was the backdrop for the front cover of Volume 11, the first symbolic cover: There was a very good chance at the time that Volume 11 would be the sunset of Cites & Insights. (In some ways, that might have been the sensible thing to do...)

Highlights of this 9-issue (plus hiatus announcement) volume include:

Five Years Later: Library 2.0 and Balance (in two parts--February and March)
Forecasts and Futurism
Writing about Reading (in two parts)
The Zeitgeist: 26 is Not the Problem (about libraries and ebooks)
Writing about Reading: A Future of Books and Publishing
and more, although less more than usual

2012

Volume 12 (2012) -- 410 pages, $20

Another vaguely symbolic cover, picturing the paddlewheel of the American Queen, which was reborn as an operating steamship after having been idled and nearly done away with.

Highlights of this 12-issue volume include:

Public Library Closures: On Not Dropping Like Flies (and, later, Public Library Closures 2 and 2010 Update)
Futurism and Forecasts (two separate essays)
Copyright: Fair Use, Parts 1 and 2
Give Us a Dollar, A Case Study and, later, two commentary essays
It Was Never a Universal Library: Three Years of the Google Books Settlement (a book-length single-essay issue)
Words: Thinking About Blogging, Parts 1 and 2
The Liblog Landscape: Where Are They Now?
Policy: The Rapid Rout of RWA
Libraries: Walking Away: Courage and Acquisitions
and more

2013

Volume 13 (2013) -- 414 pages, $20

Back to the South Pacific, this time Papeete, Tahiti, April 1, 2001, at the end of a one-week cruise on the Renaissance R3.

Highlights of this 12-issue volume include:

Catching Up with Open Access, Parts 1 & 2 (and Hot Times for Open Access)
Academic Library Circulation: Surprise! (two parts: 2008-2010 and 2006-2010)
The Death of Books (or Not) and Deathwatch 2013!
The Mythical Average Public Library
The Big Deal and the Damage Done (excerpts)
Social Networks
Books, Books and (Books?), a set of excerpts
Erehwon Community Library: A $4 to $1 Example
The Ebook Marketplace, Parts 1 and 2
and more...

2014

Volume 14 (2014) -- 344 pages, $20

Highlights of this 11-issue volume (with an extra edition added) include:

Three essays on Access and Ethics, including the sad case of Jeffrey Beall and the so-called "sting"
Ebooks and... print books, libraries, textbooks
Futurism and forecasts (and future libraries)
More on the Big Deal
The biggest feature, almost all original research: Journals and "Journals"--the actual state of gold OA journals and thousands of "journals" (names of journals but without any actual issues or articles) in 2011-2014, including Beall's lists, the Directory of Open Access Journals and the OASPA--including the "Third Half" (looking at 1,200+ bio/medical journals in DOAJ), which will otherwise appear in the January 2015 issue, along with some brief OA-related discussions as part of the same essay.
and more...

As always, the annual paperback includes an index that is not otherwise available.
If you're wondering: still in French Polynesia, swarming fish in the kind of water that even a non-snorkeler can see deeply into.

2015

Volume 15 (2015) --354 pages, $20

Highlights of this 11-issue volume include:

Three full-issue essays related to Open Access: Economics, The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014, and Ethics
A fair use trilogy: Google Books, HathiTrust and miscellaneous topics
More pieces of the OA puzzle, mostly leading up to The Gold OA Landscape
The usual: Deathwatch, Ebooks & Pbooks; a eulogy to FriendFeed and some notes on Twitter; and more

And the indices that aren't otherwise available.
The photo: the library at Ephesus--a familiar view if you own Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples but this is a slightly different photo and a considerably larger view...

2016

Volume 16 (2016) -- 214 pages, $20

Highlights of this shorter-than-usual 9-issue volume include:

Three full-issue (or nearly full-issue) essays related to Open Access: Economics and Access, a brief version of Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015, and Ethics and Access
PPPPredatory Article Counts- and "Trust Me"-precursors to the January 2017 Gray Open Access 2012-2016
The usual: Media, Ebooks & Pbooks; and more

And the indices that aren't otherwise available.

The photo: taken in Papeete, Tahiti--the same original photo as in Balanced Libraries, but it came out sharper and with better color balance this time around.

2017

Volume 17 (2017) -- 492 6x9" pages, $20

Highlights of this 10-issue volume include:

Two issues devoted to the first complete study of "gray OA"--OA journals not in DOAJ
Subject Supplement to GOAJ2 and the first seven chapters of GOAJ2
The Art of the Beall and an issue-length essay on economics and access
...and more

And the indices that aren't otherwise available.

2018

Volume 18 (2018) -- 462 6x9" pages, $20

Highlights of this 9-issue volume include:

Subject Supplement to GOAJ3 and the first seven chapters of GOAJ3
Issue-length essays on ethics and on "predatory" publishing
...and lots more

And the indices that aren't otherwise available.

2019

Volume 19 (2019) -- 402 6x9" pages, $20

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Highlights of this final volume include:

Three issue-length essays on aspects of OA.
Final roundups on copyright, big deals and others.

And the indices that aren't otherwise available.