Academic Book Week – the week-long celebration of the diversity, variety and influence of academic books throughout history – is returning for a fourth year
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News
13 December 2018
Springer Nature and Publons are partnering to improve the peer review process and to enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution
11 December 2018
China is growing in importance as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research, and there is an increasing trend of researchers moving from academia to industry
Features
26 November 2018
While researchers, publishers and funders warm to data sharing, issues over misuse, citation and credit remain, reports Rebecca Pool
24 September 2018
Nine industry figures give us the low-down on the world of publishing platforms
24 September 2018
David Stuart describes how mainstream altmetrics have become, and the challenges the concept still faces
26 July 2018
Four industry figures discuss the latest developments around semantic enrichment with Tim Gillett
26 July 2018
As the open access landscape grows in volume and complexity, Rebecca Pool asks whether calls for caution should be heard
24 May 2018
Nine industry figures give Tim Gillett the low-down on recent developments in discovery as part of the research process
Webcasts
26 January 2018
For tips on researching food information effectively, please join us for this webcast
08 December 2017
Successful life sciences and biomedical research is critical to important scientific breakthroughs and innovation
20 November 2017
This webcast addresses options available through GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO, and listeners will hear from one library that has worked with GOBI to build its collection
02 December 2014
Dr Christopher Marker, will discuss Inspec, the indexing database of scientific and technical literature, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the depth of its extensive coverage within physics, computing and engineering
Analysis & opinion
23 January 2019
Elaine L. Westbrooks was interviewed as part of Research Information's report The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018
22 January 2019
Lyubomir Penev was interviewed as part of Research Information's report The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018
04 January 2019
Martha Sedgwick was interviewed as part of Research Information's report The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018
Interviews
19 November 2018
Danny Kingsley, deputy director at Cambridge University Library, looks back at her early days at Australian National University – and forward to the many challenges facing librarians
31 October 2018
SpringerNature’s new CEO Daniel Ropers was keynote speaker at the STM Frankfurt event this month. Here, he outlines his early thoughts as a ‘newbie’ to scholarly communications
20 September 2018
IntechOpen's new CEO Anke Beck talks about her early inspirations, and of 20 years working in academic publishing
Viewpoint
31 May 2018
For academic journal articles Altmetric badges are a widely used and well understood measurement of impact. Historically, due to both complexities in the data and differences in the way audiences engage with the content, it has been more difficult to provide the same kind of insights into the impact of books and book chapters.
9 April 2018
How Dimensions allows publishers and institutions to escape the limitations of siloed data
Since Dimensions launched in January, Digital Science has been talking and writing about how the platform breaks down barriers between different types information that have previously been siloed. But how do silos develop and why are they so damaging?
Products
Cambridge University Press has launched a new publishing model to provide an outlet for world-class research and writing that sits outside the traditional formats of book or journal article
Libraries are getting access to thousands of BBC academic titles following an expanded agreement between ProQuest and BBC Learning
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