Publishing and Open Access

Open access in publishing makes it possible for more scholars, policy makers, practitioners, clinicians, and the general public to be able to view, cite, and share work. Their research could have a direct application towards current practices, methodologies, and policies. To keep up with the ever-growing amount of literature, researchers have to specialize more and…

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Is Open Access the Answer in Publishing?

Open access in publishing makes it possible for more scholars, policy makers, practitioners, clinicians, and the general public to be able to view, cite, and share work. Their research could have a direct application towards current practices, methodologies, and policies. To keep up with the ever-growing amount of literature, researchers have to specialize more and…

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Open Access and Sustainability

As more publishers consider the open access model, looking closer into collective action models in academic publishing might be in order. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next?“ Several factors appear to be converging to accelerate the move toward open access. Many publishers…

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Acknowledging the Contributions

There are many different ways that researchers contribute to progress beyond just the publication of their own results. There is peer review, serving on editorial boards, serving as editors, volunteering in their scholarly community or association, helping plan conferences and participating in promotion, tenure and hiring committees, to name a few. The Scholarly Kitchen brought…

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Open Access to Musical Compositions

Open access has extended to music and that makes many people happy, especially during this time of isolation in the COVID-19 pandemic. This news came to us from UCLA Newsroom in their article, “UCLA Library’s online publishing of music scores makes history.” Composers from 86 countries have submitted more than 7,800 musical compositions as part…

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Free Webinar Tomorrow

Access Innovations is offering a free webinar series on semantic technology, moderated by Bill Kasdorf. The first webinar is the series is scheduled for tomorrow – Thursday, May 7th at 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT. This first webinar is titled, “Why Keywords Don’t Cut It: How structured semantics get far better results in both discovery and content…

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Pandemic Creates New Challenges Going Forward

Months into this pandemic and weeks into working from home for a majority of the country – wait, just weeks? I know it feels like forever since we sat down at a coffee shop with a friend or had anything but a virtual happy hour after work with our colleagues, but it has indeed only…

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Webinar Addresses Semantic Meaning

Access Innovations is offering a free webinar series on semantic technology, moderated by Bill Kasdorf. The series is called “Meaning Matters: Practical Applications of Semantic Technology.” It addresses the power of semantics to enhance the value and visibility of content for publishers. The first webinar is scheduled for Thursday, May 7th at 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT…

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Access Innovations, Inc. and Data Conversion Laboratory Align Technology Solutions to Support Taxonomy Development and Content Structure

Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, and Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in structured data and content transformations, today announce a new partnership for content-centric organizations. Together, DCL and Access Innovations provide a complete solution to improve the organization, delivery, and retrieval of content across the content supply chain. “This…

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