Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
Why Peer Review is Important
Peer Review Week is a global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality. Scheduled for September 11-17, 2017 in Chicago, the theme is transparency in peer review. One of the more interesting events that will kick off this year’s celebrations is a panel session at 5:30 p.m. on September…
Read MoreChanging Priorities in Academic Research
Publishers are experiencing a shift in priorities when it comes to the structure of academic research. This is not a local issue, but a global one. Research Information brought this information to our attention in their article, “A changing landscape.” Every stakeholder in the scholarly information supply chain has an interest in understanding the research landscape.…
Read MoreWords Can Be a Lifelong Career
A 76-year old lexicographer continues working with his passion of the English language and all the intricacies that come along with it. He compiles dictionaries on a variety of topics and updates them as new words come into use. This very interesting news came to us from the Poughkeepsie Journal in their article, “Local wordsmith’s…
Read MoreTwo Part Educational Opportunity
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) is offering a unique two-part educational opportunity available in person or via webinar on July 26th at 12:30-2:30 p.m. EST. The first part is titled: “The Changing Discovery Landscape – Part 1: Librarians and Researchers.” This session will give an overview of the…
Read MoreALPSP Conference Promises Rich Content
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’s (ALPSP) 10th annual conference is coming up soon. The big question is “what does artificial intelligence (AI) mean for scholarly and professional publishing?” There are experts ready to explain what AI is, how it’s impacting other industries and the potential it holds for publishing. You just have to…
Read MoreHarvard Business Publishing Looking for a Taxonomist
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are…
Read MoreSummer 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 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…
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