Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
Sharing the Data
A new suite of data sharing policies to drive open scholarship forward and help the research communities achieve their goals has been made available. This interesting topic came from Knowledge Speak in their article, “Taylor & Francis announces new data sharing policies opening up the research lifecycle.” Data is a key research output. Therefore, sharing it…
Read MoreWebinar on Open Access
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is offering a learning opportunity in the form of a free webinar titled, “The Economics and Sustainability of Open Access.” Scheduled on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 8:30 a.m. (EST), this webinar is free and open to the public. Open access creates many concerns and questions in the world…
Read MoreMLIS Degree Means Different Things to Different People
ML(I)S traditionally stands for “Master of Library (and Information) Science”. However, Erica Leeman, Metadata Associate at the MIT Press (MITP) and Abigail Wickes, Discoverability Associate at Oxford University Press (OUP) offers a new meaning for this familiar acronym – Metadata Librarians In Scholarly publishing. This interesting topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “MLIS: Metadata Librarians In Scholarly publishing.”…
Read MoreChallenging Peer Review with Hoax Articles
Over the past year, three scholars have been engaged in a broad and massively secret academic project. Together, they submitted over a dozen papers to top academic journals in fields like gender studies, sexuality studies, race studies, and critical theory. While the majority of their submissions failed the peer review process and were ultimately rejected, a…
Read MoreEveryone at the Table
Mark your calendars today to attend the FORCE2018 Conference in Montreal, Canada on October 11-12, 2018. The FORCE 2018 conference is a different kind of meeting. It’s where stakeholders come to the table for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about changing the ways scholarly and scientific information is communicated, shared, and…
Read MoreNew Partnership Improves Academic Library Access
SAGE Publishing recently acquired Lean Library and its associated products to promote the value of the academic library to patrons. This interesting information came to us from Sage Publishing in their article, “SAGE Publishing acquires Lean Library to bring library services into the patrons’ workflow.” In research and academic libraries, getting access to databases with licensed material…
Read MoreAcademic Publishers Aren’t the Villains
In Argentina many local scientific journals are open-access. Public universities and libraries don’t typically have the resources to pay the rates that major publishers are requiring. Therefore, some folks have gotten a little creative with their approach. This interesting information came to us from The Guardian in their article, “Who are the real pirates in academic…
Read MoreMetadata Specialist Needed in London
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. 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 evolving.…
Read MoreWebinar on Future Publisher Independence
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is offering a webinar titled, “The Future of Publisher Independence in a Consolidated Scholarly Ecosystem”, facilitated by The Scholarly Kitchen. This event is scheduled for November 6, 2018 at 12 Noon to 1:00 p.m. (EST). Scale and consolidation are the driving forces in today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem. Mergers and…
Read MoreOpen Source and Security
Open source and scholarly publishing get a lot of chatter that can, and often does, overshadow the significant potential it has to lead organizations to modernized, efficient workflows. This interesting topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their guest post, “Open Source and Scholarly Publishing.” Many believe that scientific publishing lags behind others in…
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