Peer. Review. Two simple words, but join them up and you have one of the most crucial and heavily discussed areas of the journal publishing world.
Viewpoint
17 October 2016
Publishers and editors want evidence and the ability to test assumptions when making strategic decisions about the direction of a journal or programme. Data visualisation delivers faster, deeper insights and better answers to questions about the health of a journal programme.
28 September 2016
Publishers are natural content marketers—while other industries must generate new content to be successful “content marketers,” publishers already have a treasure trove of it and create more every day.
But scholarly and professional publishers have traditionally seen themselves as content curators and nurturers, not content marketers. Much of their staff were—or still are—scholars and professionals in their respective fields, after all.
4 August 2016
When you visit the doctor with a worrying symptom, or take your sick dog to the vets, you assume that the practitioner you consult is basing his diagnosis and treatment decision on the best available evidence, and not just on a quick Google search. After all, the pace of progress and change in scientific research is rapid, and it may be some years since your doctor did her training.
28 July 2016
Open Access has transformed academic publishing. A majority of the world’s academic publishers follow a hybrid model for at least some journals; around 43% of academic content published in the UK is Open Access. The rising tide of OA content brings its own challenges, none more significant than how the broadest possible audience can find quality, peer reviewed open research.
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Fiona Hutton
Fiona Hutton, of Cambridge University Press and Assessment, looks back over her career and tells of her love of the wilderness
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While open science has gained from the pandemic many challenges remain, writes David Stuart
David Armstrong
Options for disseminating research content have proliferated over the past decade, writes David Armstrong
Rachel Burley
The peer review-based publishing is under more pressure than ever to become faster and more open, writes Rachel Burley
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Shane Rydquist and Minhaj Rais ask: has investment in new content types led to a new era in discovery?
James Gray
Kortext CEO James Gray reflects on founding the company, his wider career, and some life-changing moments
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'Elitist world' discriminating against humanities must be avoided at all costs, write Martin Eve and Anthony Cond
Sami Benchekroun
Sami Benchekroun outlines post-pandemic trends in scholarly communications
Alvin Hutchinson
Institutional repositories have not evolved in the way they were first intended, writes Alvin Hutchinson
Frances Downey
Frances Downey, head of research and innovation culture at UKRI, explains the formation of the organisation’s Good Research Resource Hub
