Analysis & opinion

The benefits of journal-independent open peer review
07 February 2023

Elliott Lumb discusses how journal-independent peer review can improve the publishing process and how this new approach is gaining traction

Advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in academia
13 December 2022

Ioana Liuta tells us how community engagement and advancing the library’s EDI-related work led her to win the Cynthia Graham Hurd Scholarship Award

Open Access Week
Open access: The universal norm?
31 October 2022

Professor Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, shares why open access is personal

Everything you need to know about the Charleston Conference
26 October 2022

Research Information's round-up of noteworthy topics that will be discussed at the Charleston Conference

What you need to know from Frankfurt Book Fair
22 October 2022

Catch up with the most insightful take-home messages from the Frankfurt Book Fair

Support for early-career researchers
21 September 2022

Six university presses join forces to support early-career researchers from 2022 to 2025 with the OpenUP initiative

Photo credit: Olwenn Ní Dhubhghaill

Debunking digital myths
06 September 2022

Sabine Louët uncovers three myths about digital research dissemination and shares lessons she has learned

Sowmya Swaminathan

Preprints
Early sharing not the only driver for preprint use
29 June 2022

Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices

Nandita Quaderi

Journal Citation Reports, Covid-19
Another extraordinary year for citation impact
27 June 2022

Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion

Oluchi Ojinamma Okere

Research news, APCs, Global South, Open access
Open Book: African scholars facing economic crunch
20 June 2022

Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics

Miriam Maus

Peer review
Conference highlights early-career research barriers
06 June 2022

If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing

James Gray

ebooks
Is there a systemic problem with ebooks?
23 May 2022

James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed

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