Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
Last Minute Learning Opportunity
Tomorrow – October 23, 2019 – the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is offering a webinar entitled, “Are There Finally Real Use Cases for AI?” In the last few years, a number of companies have come on the scene to tout new or better artificial intelligence (AI) technology and propose new ways of using AI…
Read MoreThe Role of Scholarly Societies
Communities exist in various forms and fashions. Spiritual, educational, and occupational. This interesting information came to our attention from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Why Scholarly Societies Are Vitally Important to the Academic Ecosystem.” A community or learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines, such as the arts…
Read MorePublishing and Digital Conundrum
As digital content continues to rise in popularity over the years, it is assumed that convenience and cost are the main drivers. Even though print can be flashy and heavy, requiring physical transport, doesn’t mean it always cost more. This basic assumption has led to a flawed logical process — if online is virtually free, with the…
Read MoreScience in Song
Sometimes it is nice to approach a serious topic with some lightheartedness. This is the case for the STM Tech Trends 2023 – a discussion forum of over 30 STM members aimed at identifying key trends that may impact the STM publishing industry between now and 2023. In April of 2019 at the STM U.S. Conference…
Read MoreThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Scholarly Publishing
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is gearing up for their New Directions in Open Access Business Models: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly seminar on October 2-3, 2019 in Washington D.C. Along with highlighting successful new models, the seminar will allow for lively discussion and debate surrounding some of the most talked-about enterprises in the…
Read MorePeer Review Week
This week is Peer Review Week 2019, how are you celebrating? The Scholarly Kitchen is continuing their tradition of asking a peer review question. Because the theme this year is quality in peer review, they are asking: How do different stakeholders – authors, editors, readers, publishers, the public – value peer review quality? The responses that came from…
Read MoreOpen Access and Peer Review
Open access literature is a method of sharing scholarship that is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes open access possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. This interesting topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Open Source…
Read MoreKMWorld Chooses Access Innovations, Inc.’s Data Harmony Software as a 2019 Trend Setting Product
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce their inclusion on the 2019 KMWorld list of Trend Setting Products. This is the seventh time Data Harmony has appeared on the list. “We’re excited to announce the KMWorld list of Trend-Setting Products of 2019,” remarked Thomas Hogan, Group Publisher at KMWorld.…
Read MoreOpen Access Project Gains Interest
A new project has been launched to help universities, researchers, libraries and publishers make better use of open access book publishing in humanities and the social sciences. Campus Technology brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Project Working to Improve Open-Access Publishing.” The Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) is a partnership…
Read MoreTechnology in the Publishing World
Publishing is an information technology business, but technology may not be enough. It is more than having the capacity to invest in technology or even the desire, there must be a strategy behind the effort. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Why Is It So Hard to Solve Problems with…
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