Summer 2022
Letting go of the way we worked pre-pandemic
Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working…
The challenge of measuring scholarly communication
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
Bright future for libraries in the cloud
Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
‘It just frustrates me to see research not being read and used’
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Early sharing not the only driver for preprint use
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Another extraordinary year for citation impact
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Open Book: African scholars facing economic crunch
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
A Mastermind of taxonomy
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Working towards a fairer playing field
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Conference highlights early-career research barriers
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing