All about the user
28 January 2019
The concept of ‘user-centred by design’ will be centre-stage at the OpenAthens 2019 conference
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Publishing news
The evolution of an industry
24 January 2019
Roger Valade traces developments in scholarly communications over the last couple of decades, from CD-ROM to artificial intelligence
Prisoners of a system
24 January 2019
Vitek Tracz describes his perspective on the changes in the way researchers have communicated their findings over the last 100 issues of Research Information
'Publishers could be doing so many different things'
23 January 2019
Elaine L. Westbrooks was interviewed as part of Research Information's report The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018
What is the added value of a traditional publisher?
22 January 2019
Lyubomir Penev was interviewed as part of Research Information's report The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018
Academic Book Week to return
22 January 2019
Academic Book Week – the week-long celebration of the diversity, variety and influence of academic books throughout history – is returning for a fourth year
'Libraries have a critical role engaging with faculty'
4 January 2019
Martha Sedgwick was interviewed as part of Research Information's report The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018
'We have to work better together, we have to work smarter together'
3 January 2019
Stephanie Dawson was interviewed as part of Research Information's report The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018
Springer Nature and Publons to partner on peer review
13 December 2018
Springer Nature and Publons are partnering to improve the peer review process and to enable peer reviewers to receive recognition for their contribution
'Stop pretending copyright piracy doesn’t matter'
11 December 2018
Rick Anderson was interviewed as part of Research Information's report The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018
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From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
Chris Smith
Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
