October/November 2014

What are hijacked journals?Academic researchers need to publish the results of their research in scientific journals to graduate or to advance their careers. Around…

When it comes to publishing their research, traditionally the main aim of many scientists has been to get published in a journal with an…

If 2012 was the year of the MOOC (massive online open course), according to the New York Times, then perhaps 2015 will be the…

In the world of academic e-books, “patron-driven” is a particularly common buzz-term. It symbolises a fundamental shift in the way a library collection is…

The ‘cloud’ has been hitting the mainstream headlines lately – complete with stories about naked celebrities and explanations that no real clouds are actually…

Earlier this year, platform developer Atypon acquired MetaPress. Jonathan Hevenstone, senior vice president of business development, talks about the acquisition, Atypon’s approach to platform…

With the increasing amount of information available to help authors, readers, and publishers discover and assess scholarly content, new mechanisms are required to understand…

Any discussion about measuring the impact of scholarly research, especially on Twitter, quickly becomes heated. A picture is often painted of Thomson Reuters’ Journal…

In January, two years after it was founded, the alternative metrics start-up Plum Analytics was bought by EBSCO. The aim, as Plum Analytics co-founder…