Summer Learning Opportunity
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker Mary Anne Baynes, Chief Marketing Officer of Overleaf and Dr. John Hammersley, Co-founder and CEO of Overleaf on Friday, July 21 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. at the McGraw-Hill/NY offices. The webinar – How authoring tools are changing the landscape between author and publisher – will share case studies from researchers, institutions…
Read MoreIt’s All Semantics
Semantic search is search that understands the meaning of a natural language query as opposed to viewing search terms as keywords. Simplicable brought this interesting information to us in their article, “What is Semantic Search?” To properly use semantic search, a search engine back end is required that can discover, rank and index knowledge resources. In addition,…
Read MoreNaming Conventions
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics, and the practice and science of classification of things or concepts, including the principles that underlie such classification. It is also one of the few chances scientists get to actually inject humor into the published literature, and it’s a…
Read MoreUnderstanding Knowledge
There are many terms used in relation to artificial intelligence. Some are synonymous and some are just distantly related. Sys-Con Media brought this news to us in their article, “AI Is About Machine Reasoning.” In 1955 Prof. John McCarthy defined artificial intelligence as the goal to develop machines that behave as though they were intelligent. Even…
Read MoreLatest Attempt in Cyber Warfare
Many major firms, airports and government departments in Ukraine have been struck by a massive cyber attack which spread across Europe this week. This interesting news came to us from The Telegraph in their article, “Petya cyber attack: Ransomware spreads across Europe with firms in Ukraine, Britain and Spain shut down.” Ukrainian government departments, the central…
Read MoreFree Educational Opportunity
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Journals Committee has added an additional free guest speaker talk to their summer programs. This will be a talk via webinar only. We will be hearing from Laura Harvey, Head of Publisher Relations at Publons on Tuesday, July 18th from 12:00-1:00 p.m. (ET) via webinar. Publons is the world’s first and largest reviewer recognition…
Read MoreAccountability in Open Access Publishing
A recent United States court ruling awarded publisher Elsevier $15m in damages for copyright infringements by Sci-Hub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites. This interesting news came to us from The Bookseller in their article, “Elsevier awarded $15m from Sci-Hub in copyright case.” The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the International Publishers…
Read MoreScholar Communications and Machine Learning
The last 30 years in scholarly communications have shown a steady trend towards digital content creation and delivery, especially for journals. The industry focus has now moved from print to online. However, online delivery may be influenced by print predilections. This interesting topic came to us from Research Information in their article, “‘Genuinely disruptive’.” Academics have a…
Read MoreNew Partnership Enhances Collaborative Technologies
Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair) and Zapnito announced a new partnership to enable STM and humanities publishers, professional societies, and other knowledge providers to foster engagement around expert content and discussions. This information came to us from Silverchair’s press release, “Zapnito and Silverchair Partner to Create and Enrich Knowledge Communities.” This isn’t a new collaboration. Zapnito’s…
Read MoreThere is No Hiding
Are all journals vulnerable to harm from piracy? Are open access (OA) journals immune to the threat? The Scholarly Kitchen brought this news to us in their article, “Are Open Access Journals Immune from Piracy?” Authors choose to pay to publish in OA journals because of the increased visibility/citations and fund requirements. It is normal for an…
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