Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
Technology and Publishing
Technology has impacted how the casual reader consumes information, whether that be news or fiction. This is not new news. However, how exactly has technology changed how the publishing industry approaches their work? This interesting topic came to us from The New York Times in their article, “How Technology Is (and Isn’t) Changing Our Reading Habits.”…
Read MoreScholarly Search Gets New Platform
Digital Science launched a new platform – Dimensions – intended to transform scholarly search. Digital Science brought this news to us in their article, “Digital Science Launches Dimensions: a Next-generation Research and Discovery Platform Linking 124 Million Documents, Providing Free Search and Citation Data Across 86 Million Articles.” This is a collaboration between six Digital…
Read MoreScience Journal Increases Access
A new authoritative journal has joined the family of open access titles. Launched in 1884 and 1912, respectively, University of Hamburg’s journal Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut and Entomologische Mitteilungen are now resurrected under the name of Evolutionary Systematics. KnowledgeSpeak brought this news to our attention in their article, “Evolutionary Systematics joins Pensoft’s OA portfolio.” Evolutionary Systematics is…
Read MoreAnalyzing Relationships
Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain. The result? Search engines can identify related terms for keywords by researching through billions of pages and use these findings to evaluate whether a web page offers truly comprehensive content related to a…
Read MoreMaking It Easier to Share
Scholarly sharing is the foundation upon which a collective body of knowledge grows. Technology has definitely improved the speed and ease of sharing, but the practice dates back to when the very first scholarly journal was created 350 years ago. This topic came to us from Research Information in the article, “How Can I Share it?”…
Read MoreMetadata’s Role in Marketing
Marketing books these days is a totally different beast than just 20 years ago. What once was highly dependent on word of mouth recommendations, despite the large amount of money used on ad campaigns, is now a predominantly online discovery experience. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Enriching…
Read MoreVirtual Workshop on Research in Scholarly Publishing
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a virtual workshop titled, “Incorporating Research Objects in Scholarship” on December 12, 2017 at 1:00-3:45 p.m. (EST). Incorporating data sets, code, annotations, and pre-prints into the scholarly article improves the discoverability, reusability, and reproducibility of research. In this workshop you can learn what has been…
Read MoreProofreading Fun
To some the title of this article may seem like an oxymoron, but for others proofreading is an obsession. This unique but interesting play on the popular social media quizzes brings Harry Potter fans and grammar snobs together in a quiz called “Proofreading Quiz: What’s Your Harry Potter Proofreading Personality?” Rules, standards and style guides…
Read MoreConference Addresses Fake News
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of AAP is offering its 2018 PSP Pre-Conference, “Fake News — Fake Scholarship: Improving Accuracy and Transparency in Professional and Scholarly Publishing” on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C. It is not too early to mark your calendars and plan to attend. The…
Read MoreCollaboration Seeks to Improve Research
A group of not-for-profit scientific membership societies have announced the launch of the Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA). This is an initiative focused on building awareness of and support for publication of scientific research by scientist-run scientific societies. The American Society for Microbiology brought this exciting news to our attention in their article, “Scholarly Publishers Join…
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