Editor's picks

Faye Holst

Analysis and opinion
Peer review 'must keep pace with rapidly changing landscape...

Systems must evolve and advance to adapt to interdisciplinary processes, writes Faye Holst

Peer review

Jessica Payne

Analysis and opinion
Communicating science breakthroughs through video

A golden opportunity for researchers to communicate their latest findings, writes Jessica Payne

Video
News story
Frankfurt Book Fair – reader offer!

Research Information readers offered reduced price on trade visitor tickets

Events, reader offer

News

Open access
PLOS receives multi-million-dollar grant funding
03 October 2024

$2.5 million funding "will support mission to drive Open Science forward with meaningful change in scholarly publishing"

Peer review
Shining a light on constructive feedback in peer review
21 September 2024

IOP Publishing is raising awareness of the importance of constructive and respectful peer review feedback

equity and inclusion
New tool to assess equity in scholarly communication models
18 September 2024

“How Equitable Is It” tool launched at the OASPA 2024 conference

Analysis & opinion

Faye Holst

Peer review
Peer review 'must keep pace with rapidly changing landscape...
19 September 2024

Systems must evolve and advance to adapt to interdisciplinary processes, writes Faye Holst

Analysis & opinion

Jessica Payne

Video
Communicating science breakthroughs through video
12 September 2024

A golden opportunity for researchers to communicate their latest findings, writes Jessica Payne

Peer review
AI in research and publishing workflows: a new paradigm
09 September 2024

Dave Flanagan outlines how artificial intelligence is being used to enhance productivity and innovation

Maria Machado and Anne T Stone

Peer review
Innovation, technology, and the pace of change
28 August 2024

Peer Review Week 2024 organisers report ‘remarkable’ response to community poll, write Maria Machado and Anne T Stone

Features

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ebooks
Searching for the right ebook business models
24 April 2023

The rapid adoption of ebooks in recent years has led to greater scrutiny of pricing models, writes David Stuart

Features

Metrics
COUNTER: more than just subscription metrics
11 April 2023

Twenty years after its launch, the latest update to the COUNTER Code of Practice is about to go live

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FAIR data
Making publishing platforms fairer
09 March 2023

Four industry figures tell Annabel Ola what needs to change to make research accessible to all

Grey literature
The chasm between the scholarly record and grey literature
02 March 2023

Toby Green examines the growing problem of grey literature research, which is not being published

Interviews

SSP President Heather Staines

Interview
INTERVIEW: “I want others to fall in love with the profession”

Heather Staines, newly-appointed president of SSP, recalls her career and outlines her hopes for the wider industry

Interview
INTERVIEW: Democratising science

Christian Box of Karger Publishers reflects on 20 years in the industry and his hopes for the future of scholarly communications

Mateja Jamnik

Artificial intelligence
INTERVIEW: Advancing AI and women's journey in science

Mateja Jamnik, Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge

Viewpoint

Working to engineer a better world? Watch the IET video here: Intelligence & Research - The IET

open science
Transforming research for an Open Science world

IET's Research Solutions are helping to transform research for an Open Science world

Industry trends
Increasing your employees’ copyright awareness

Your employees and copyright awareness: sharing your policy may not be enough

BMJ and Overton launch first medical research impact tool

BMJ and Overton launch first research impact tool focused on health and social care

Resources

Research news
Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities in Scholarly...

During a time of thorough transformation towards Open Access and, moreover, Open Science, the field of scholarly communications is facing new challenges.

Working to engineer a better world? Watch the IET video here: Intelligence & Research - The IET

open science
Transforming research for an Open Science world

IET's Research Solutions are helping to transform research for an Open Science world

White paper
Three US organizations reflect on their transition to OA

In the US, the pace of transition to OA is accelerating. An increasing number of libraries are signing transformative agreements (TAs) that support authors to publish OA, while maintaining access to subscription content.

Press releases

IOP Publishing's Applied Physics Express converts to fully...
13 September 2023

From January 2024 all articles published in APEX will be immediately and openly accessible

Karger Publishers expands open access portfolio
13 September 2023

Journal features research and reviews reporting on translational and clinical studies encompassing all fields of immunology

SPIE partners with Cadmore Media for video publication
05 September 2023

Partnership brings SPIE’s 55,000+ video assets to Cadmore’s streaming platform

News story

The Research Information Yearbook 2023-24 is out now!

20 September 2023

We are delighted to tell you that the Research Information Yearbook for 2023-24 is now published!

 

As ever, the last 12 months has been a time of change in scholarly communications, and this yearbook covers many of the subject areas that have seen crucial developments: artificial intelligence; open science and research; ebook pricing; preprints; user experience; developments in the Global South, India and the Middle East; metrics and citation; and industry standards.