Data Management Opportunity Down Under

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…

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New Year Brings Educational Opportunities

The Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division is offering two educational opportunities (in person or via webinar) to start the new year off. The PSP Books Committee will be hearing from guest speakers Matt Cooper & Emma Brink (Wiley) to speak about early publishing careers on Friday, January 13, 2017 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the AAP New York…

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New Science Journal Focuses on Robotics

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently debuted a new journal. Science Robotics has been launched to cover the most important advances in robots and their applications. As the newest journal to join the Science family of journals and it is now open to accept submissions. The journal’s goals have been identified as to select the most groundbreaking…

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Portable Peer Review

The process of peer review is a cornerstone of scientific integrity. It guarantees the quality in a scientific research paper. When a researcher accomplishes something, the concluding step is to publish the results in the scientific literature. To get there, the paper must undergo peer review. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this information to us in their…

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Traditions

Tradition. Every time I hear this word, the scene from Fiddler on the Roof pops into my head. “You may ask how did these traditions start? I’ll tell you, I don’t know, but it’s tradition!” There are so many traditions and yet many don’t know where they come from. Some start out as one thing,…

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Publishing Challenges

The widespread use of Sci-Hub for research papers has fueled one of the most important academic debates in recent times. This interesting information came to us from the London School of Economics and Political Science and their blog post, “The current system of knowledge dissemination isn’t working and Sci-Hub is merely a symptom of the problem.” Sci-Hub…

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#Hashtag

Think about the many ways in which we can search the web. First, there are various browsers to choose from: Chrome, FireFox, or Internet Explorer, for example. Then, you have search engine such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Then, after you choose those, you can search using Booleans or keywords. The rise in social media,…

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Enterprise Data Governance Online Event

2016 is coming to a close so it is time to start filling your calendar for 2017, before someone else does it for you. Now is a good time to save the date for the 2nd annual Enterprise Data Governance Online Event (EDGO). January 25th, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (PST) should be on your…

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Getting to Know Your Libaries

Many believe academic libraries and publishers can work together more effectively to deliver on their shared core mission – to foster access to the world’s knowledge across disciplinary, institutional and national boundaries for researchers, students and academics alike. This interesting information came to us from USKG in their opinion piece, “Managing relationships between libraries and publishers for…

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Scholarly Publishing Still Has Street Cred

Many critics believe that Facebook users have been influenced by “fake news” on Facebook in their election decisions. Whether you agree with them or with Mark Zuckerberg who adamantly contends this isn’t happening and that fake news is not very prevalent on Facebook, you have likely been a recipient of the trending news list fed by an algorithm. The…

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