Five industry leaders on the future of publishing platforms
26 August 2022
As the move towards open science and FAIR data progresses, platform providers are facing new challenges. Five industry figures tell Tim Gillett what comes next.
River Valley Technologies
'Fast publication can save lives!'
15 July 2022
River Valley Technologies director Maryam Bazargan describes her early career, 10 years of working with her brother Kaveh, and her love of languages and cultures
Platform number one
8 October 2020
River Valley Technologies launches content hosting platform
29 July 2019
River Valley Technologies has launched a content hosting platform, and the final component of its XML-based scholarly publishing solution
Platforms of note
29 March 2019
Five industry figures tell Tim Gillett what authors should be looking for when disseminating their work
Platforms to success
24 September 2018
Nine industry figures give us the low-down on the world of publishing platforms
ReView
4 April 2018
Authors of biology and biomedical papers can now choose to submit to a journal directly from bioRxiv, as well as to submit to bioRxiv automatically from a journal
ProofCheck by River Valley
9 August 2017
After evaluating several competing products in 2016, De Gruyter has chosen River Valley’s online proofing platform, ProofCheck.
De Gruyter had previously been sending authors their proofs in PDF format for annotation. Authors’ corrections would then be implemented to produce the final publication. De Gruyter was looking for a faster and more reliable system in order to minimise admin within the publication workflows of their online-only journals.
RVPublisher
3 December 2014
River Valley Technologies, the UK-based typesetting company, says its new RVPublisher platform will cut production costs and turn around times in half for publishers
RVPublisher
20 September 2014
River Valley Technologies to launch automated XML publishing system
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
