Springer Nature and Publons are partnering to improve the peer review process and to enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution
While researchers, publishers and funders warm to data sharing, issues over misuse, citation and credit remain, reports Rebecca Pool
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
From the Journal Impact Factor to the latest altmetrics, scholarly players are crying out for metrics to be used responsibly, reports Rebecca Pool
Taylor & Francis Group and Cambridge University Press have joined a pilot project to test blockchain technologies applications to peer review
Three publishers and ResearchGate have agreed to work together on the sharing of articles on the scholarly collaboration platform
The overwhelming majority of professional staff in research institutions and libraries across the globe view open access as the future of academic and scientific publishing
Until recently, the evaluation of research output and impact has focused largely on journal articles
SciGraph, the linked open data (LOD) platform launched by Springer Nature in March, now holds more one billion metadata statements about content published by the company and links to established external datasets.
Springer Nature has launched a one-year pilot with PaperHive, a market-leading annotation system and copyright-compliant collaborative research platform
James Molloy
James Molloy reflects on the many different strands of his role as a librarian
Ted Slater and James Malone
Siloed data has a wide-reaching impact, say Ted Slater and James Malone
The last decade promised a revolution but high prices have stirred up a rebellion
Michele Avissar-Whiting
Michele Avissar-Whiting outlines the course of post-pandemic preprinting
Marian Asantewah Nkansah
Research Information meets award-winning Ghanaian researcher Marian Asantewah Nkansah
Eric Merkel-Sobotta
Eric Merkel-Sobotta discusses the APE conference, the Berlin Institute for Scholarly Publishing, and a great love of horticulture
Andrew Barker
Andrew Barker, UKSG chair, looks back on a difficult year – and towards a brighter future (and tells of his love for 50s jazz)
