Critical thinking in a post-Beall vacuum
For many years, Jeffrey Beall single-handedly fought his own (often controversial) battle against ‘predatory’ publishers, mostly via his ‘Scholarly Open Access’ blog (AKA Beall’s…
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Exposing peer review
When Nature launched a trial of open peer review in June 2006, its editors and publishers felt peer review was ‘never perfect’ and the…
Picture perfect
Researchers will often tell you that the most challenging part of publishing their work is coming up with an article abstract. Having to summarise…
Until the bitter end?
Subscription agents: Rebecca Pool asks who will survive the seismic shifts in scholarly publishing circlesIt’s no secret that life for the subscription agent hasn’t…
From robotics to Rijeka
In October 2016, Simba Information reported that open access (OA) books are estimated to grow 30 per cent a year, and that there are…
Life through a lens
Just a few years ago, video was still a relatively new concept in the world of academic publishing. Even in the two-year period from…
Dare to share?
In September Springer Nature announced that all research papers accepted for publication in Nature and its additional titles must include a data-availability statement, detailing…
Revealing the silver lining
How would you define a cloud-based library system? Cloud-based library services platforms like WorldShare Management Services (WMS) allow libraries to run both front-office and…
Alternative assessment
Altmetrics surfaced in 2010 from a tide of scholarly dissatisfaction. For many, peer-review was slow, citation counting insufficient, and the Journals Impact Factor dubious.…
Dealing with diversity
In a broad sense, a publishing platform is the software and services needed to effectively and efficiently distribute and monetise a publisher’s digital content,…
Scholarly publishing and the art of glamping
Do you remember the tent?’ Not something you’d expect to hear at a scholarly communications conference, but there’s something quintessentially ALPSP about the question.…
London calling
London Info International will be held at London ExCeL Centre, on 6 and 7 December. This multi-faceted event will have at its heart a…