Some implications of "digital" for scholarly writing and communication

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The Library Partnership Rating: a new way to evaluate academic publishers?

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Libraries and publishers interact all the time, but how can a library communicate its vision for scholarly publishing? We all know about the limitations of current metrics for journal publishing: all too often the much criticised journal impact factor is used, …

Understanding Research Impact and Metrics: Insights from the library

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Universities spend considerable time and money trying to measure research influence, but do those metrics truly capture scholarly value? I talked with Rachel Miles, research impact coordinator at Virginia Tech Libraries, to find out …

A Cambridge publishing success story

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It may surprise some that there is more than one academic book publisher in Cambridge. Open Book Publishing, founded in 2008 by Cambridge academics Rupert Gatti and Alessandro Tosi, is one of the most successful open-access publishers in the UK. …

Gregory Laynor: from Gertrude Stein to systematic reviews

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Meta-Research, or research about research, has existing for many years, but only recently has it started to be identified more formally. Gregory Laynor, co-founder of the Meta-Research Collaborative, is in the forefront of this area of information science.

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Andrew Smeall: using technology to effect business change

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Adaptability and innovation are words that spring to mind with Andrew Smeall. From studying Chinese in Beijing, he was involved in setting up journal production systems at Hindawi and Wiley, before his present tole, as VP of Product Innovation at Sage. …

An interview with Brian Nosek, Center for Open Science

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The Center for Open Science, co-founded by Brian Nosek, has been responsible for many of the big innovations in science practice over the last ten years, including the Open Science Framework and the Reproducibility Project. In this interview I talked …

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