Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
Sci-Hub Blocked in Russia
Sci-Hub is the infamous pirate site that bypasses paywalls to illicitly host millions of pay-to-read scientific papers. The creator, Alexandra Elbakyan, sees the research repository is her solution to the rampant paywalls and copyright restrictions that keep valuable research out of the public domain. Now, Sci-Hub is being blocked in Russia after a court in…
Read MoreOpen Access Deal Made
Cambridge University Press recently announced they have reached an open access deal with higher education and research institutions in Sweden. This came to us from their release, “Cambridge University Press signs major Open Access deal in Sweden.” The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal has been agreed with Bibsam – a consortium of 85 higher education and research…
Read MoreSemantic Fingerprinting Reduces Barriers
Within artificial intelligence (AI) there are a number of different technologies and they lie at different points in the curve of adoption with virtual assistants and robo-advisors being the most common. Semantic technologies have a world of discovery lying ahead. Although it is widely used as the underlying technology for most deep learning systems, there…
Read MoreUsing AI for Peer Review Process
Peer review isn’t always seen in the brightest of lights. However, it is important to remember that it is very important to the quality of things. Peer review does the same thing for science that the “inspected by #4” sticker does for your underwear. It provides assurance that someone who knows what they’re doing has double-checked it. This interesting…
Read MoreShades of Grey
When it’s not black or white, it falls into the many shades of grey. For academic publishing, that is referred to as grey literature. Grey literature stands for manifold document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats that are protected by intellectual property rights, of sufficient quality…
Read MoreA Man With A Vision
Everyone has heard the news by now. Stan Lee, the Marvel Comics patriarch who was responsible for a new era of superhero storytelling has died. CNN brought this news to us in their article, “Stan Lee, Marvel Comics visionary, dead at 95.” This is not an article about a comic book creator. Yes, as the top…
Read MorePeer Review Optimization – Hindawi Limited and Access Innovations Partner for Better Author Service
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce their work with Hindawi Limited, a leading publisher of peer reviewed, fully open access journals. Access Innovations developed a controlled vocabulary to index published content for Hindawi at the beginning of 2017. The mission was to significantly improve their information architecture framework by clustering their data based on…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity from ALPSP
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is offering an online webinar educational opportunity titled, “Driving Usage, Demonstrating Value.” It is scheduled for December 5, 2018 at 10:30-12am EST. Driving and measuring usage of subscriptions is critical both to publishers and librarians in demonstrating the value of scholarly resources to readers and researchers…
Read MoreDebate Webinar from Charleston Conference
Charleston Conference Webinar Series is bringing an interesting topic to us. Hyde Park Debate – Resolved: All scholarship must be made freely available for reading and reuse. This debate is scheduled for October 31, 2018 at 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST. The debate will be conducted in general accordance with Oxford Union rules. All in the audience will vote…
Read MoreDigital Learning is Today
The printed book has been the foundation of the educational publishing industry since 1455. Has digital publishing changed the dynamics? Is digital learning the new norm? This interesting subject came to us from EdSurge in their article, “How Academic Publishers Can Push the Boundaries of Digital Learning.” There are many factors impacting the push for…
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