Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
New 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…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity on PIDs
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) will be hearing from guest speaker Christine Orr, Sales Director – North America at RINGGOLD on Wednesday, July 19 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the HarperCollins/NY offices. Christine will address Persistent Identifiers – The 5 things you need to know. The use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) has become much more widespread in our industry,…
Read MoreDigging Through Data
The volume of papers emerging from the world’s universities is increasing on a daily basis. Estimates are as high as 10,000 new papers being published every day. This information came to us from the DZone in their article, “How Automation Can Help Us Deal With the Data Deluge.” A number of tools have been developed to help…
Read MoreEBSCO Gets New Director of Product Management
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has expanded its Analytics and Assessment team by hiring John McDonald as Director of Product Management. PR Web brought this news to us in their article, “EBSCO Information Services Expands Analytics and Assessment Team Hiring John McDonald as Director of Product Management.” McDonald will work with libraries to provide advanced decision-making support…
Read MoreDoes Digital Increase Reading?
The debate on whether reading “real” books, i.e. paper, is better than digital versions continues. This interesting topic came to our attention from New Republic in their article, “Why Digital Reading Is No Substitute for Print.” Both parents and teachers are asking whether students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print. Computer-based media…
Read MoreNew Strategy for Publishers
Metadata is important and has long been a priority for publishers. However, just as everything else changes, publishers are struggling to keep up with the changes in metadata. This interesting information came to us from The Bookseller in their article, “Publishers are struggling with metadata; enter BookEngine.” There are some options for help out there. One…
Read MoreChange Doesn’t Come Easy
A recent study analyzing digital transformation in the publishing industry found that 25 percent of publishers see themselves as “lagging” versus the rest of the industry in their current transformation efforts, while only 25 percent feel they are “leading.” Talking New Media brought this information to our attention in their article, “Study on digital transformation in…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity Around the Changes in Digital
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers brought a unique learning opportunity to our attention. “How to Survive (and Thrive) in the Digital Universe” addresses the change in scholarly communication technology. Digital innovations from within the community and from other industry sectors constantly promise to disrupt and reform scholarly communication. Open data and open science, collaborative…
Read MoreORCID is Coming to Canada
ORCID and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) along with support from a working group of 16 Canadian stakeholders who are deeply committed to supporting research, scholarship, and innovation in Canada, are collaborating to build ORCID-CA, the ORCID consortium in Canada. The Canadian Research Knowledge Network brought this news to our attention in their article, “ORCID-CA, the…
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