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Blogs selected for Week Sep 26 to Oct 2, 2016

1. Old Media, New Media, Data Media: Evolving Publishing Paradigms We typically classify publishers as Old Media and New Media, but now we have companies that are part of a new paradigm, the Dat Media company. Such companies sit above both Old and New, studying patterns in usage and in the databases of information aggregated […]

Blogs selected for Week Sep 19 to Sep 25, 2016

1. How academics and NGOs can work together to influence policy: insights from the InterAction report Questions over how academics and the third sector can collaborate to influence policy are not new. However, Duncan Green, in his post in The Impact Blog, has noted some interesting research and insights from the InterAction report published earlier […]

Blogs selected for Week Sep 12 to Sep 18, 2016

1. How proximity and trust are key factors in getting research to feed into policymaking Policymakers frequently fail to use research evidence in their work. Academia moves too slowly for the policy world and its findings do not translate easily into policy solutions. Using the Department of Health as a case study, Jo Maybin, in […]

Blogs selected for Week Sep 5 to Sep 11, 2016

1. How Much Does Publishing Cost? There have been several recent studies of what it costs to publish academic monographs, but they all mistake the cost of production with cost of publication. In his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Joseph Esposito summarizes the issues and suggests a very simple way to calculate the cost […]

Blogs selected for Week Aug 22 to Aug 28, 2016

1. Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World Both Scientific Reports and PLOS ONE are run by an immense, diffuse group of section editors, accept papers without novel findings, and charge the same article processing charge (APC) – $1,495. Phil Davis, in his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, looks at […]

Blogs selected for Week Aug 15 to Aug 21, 2016

1. Curation Nation: Thoughts on the Future of Textbooks Is there a role for a curated, remixing approach to developing next generation textbooks. In his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Robert Harington investigates the role of curated open textbooks in teaching today’s students, looking at some of the available tools, the way in which […]

Blogs selected for Week Aug 8 to Aug 14, 2016

1. How to Manipulate a Citation Histogram Citation indexes need to provide standardised citation histograms for editors and publishers. Without them, it is unlikely that they will be widely adopted. At worse, it will encourage the production of histograms that selectively highlight or obscure the data, notes Phil Davis, in his post in the Scholarly […]

Blogs selected for Week Aug 1 to Aug 7, 2016

1. Nuts and Bolts: The Super Long List of Things to Do When Starting a New Journal Launching a new journal is a lot of work. In her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Angela Cochran looks at the basic “to do” list of logistical details that need to be done to successfully launch a […]

Blogs selected for Week Jul 25 to Jul 31, 2016

1. The uneven impacts of research impact: Adjustments needed to address the imbalance of the current impact framework. The current approach to measuring and assessing research impact favours certain kinds of academics and research topics over others. In their post in The Impact Blog, Kat Smith and Ellen Stewart outline three areas that require further […]

Blogs selected for Week Jul 18 to Jul 24, 2016

1. Optical Illusions – Shifting to Citation Distributions Only Makes It Easier to Fool the Eye A proposal to substitute graphs of citation distributions for impact factors introduces many problems the authors don’t seem to have fully grasped, including unintentionally bolstering the importance of the very metric they seek to diminish. The recent proposal from […]