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Blogs selected for Week December 14 to December 20, 2015

1. Will the impact framework fix the problems the research audit found? The results from the latest university research audit indicate that research in Australia is improving. Under the government’s latest reform of research funding, academics will be assessed not only on their quality of research through the ERA, but also on the economic, social […]

Blogs selected for Week December 7 to December 13, 2015

1. Scholarly Publishing Demographic Survey Reveals Major Diversity Challenges In Scholarly Publishing #STMchallenges Laura Wheeler, in her post in the Digital Science Blog, discusses an analysis conducted by Digital Science, Fordham University School of Business, SSP, ALPSP, STM and CSE, which ran from December 2014 to January 2015. The survey shows that although there is […]

Blogs selected for Week November 23 to November 29, 2015

1. Increasing the Scope of Researcher Engagement Through Technology It is an accepted reality that the role of scholarly publishers with respect to their ultimate customers, researchers, is changing. In 2012, Annette Thomas outlined her personal vision of the ways in which publishing, as we know it, should adapt to the changing face of digital […]

Blogs selected for Week November 16 to November 22, 2015

1. Academic publications to become less important when funding university research The Turnbull government is set to overhaul the way university research is funded by dramatically downgrading the importance of publishing articles in little-read academic journals. Prime Minister Turnbull wants to end the “publish or perish” culture in which academics are pressured to focus on […]

Blogs selected for Week November 9 to November 15, 2015

1. Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researcher Access to E-Resources The user experience of working with e-journals and ebooks in an academic setting has failed to keep up with changing practices and preferences for how researchers now expect to access the scholarly literature. Roger C. Schonfeld called attention to some of these limitations in […]

Blogs selected for Week November 2 to November 8, 2015

1. Sharing peer review experiences and knowledge BMC Medicine has launched a new series of specialised ‘How to’ peer review articles written by experienced members of the journal’s editorial board. Jigisha Patel, in her guest post in the BioMed Central Blog, tells us more about this, explaining why there is a need for such a […]

Blogs selected for Week October 26 to November 1, 2015

1. Open Access at a Crossroads Last week marked the annual celebration/marketing event that is Open Access Week, and this year it seemed something of a mixed bag. Open access (OA) is growing into maturity, and has rapidly become integrated into the scholarly publishing landscape over the last fifteen or so years. We have now […]

Blogs selected for Week October 19 to October 25, 2015

1. The impact of academia on Parliament: 45 percent of Parliament-focused impact case studies were from social sciences How does academic research feed into the parliamentary process? Analysing the impact case studies of the 2014 REF, Caroline Kenny, in her post in The Impact Blog, draws out potential lessons on how Parliament is currently engaging […]

Blogs selected for Week October 12 to October 18, 2015

1. Avoiding fake journals and judging the work in real ones The number and reach of phony scholarly journals that will publish almost anything in exchange for a payment, without regard for quality or the bother of subjecting the work to real peer review, has been growing. In his post in the Science Blog, Beryl […]

Blogs selected for Week October 5 to October 11, 2015

1. Transitioning to a More Unified Platform Combining most if not all of a publisher’s scholarly content on a single publisher platform has not always been the norm. Oxford University Press’s transition to a new platform represents not just a one-to-one platform shift but in fact a consolidation from more to fewer platforms. This is […]