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Blogs selected for Week February 20 to February 26, 2017

1. Who Has All the Content? Looking across the scholarly publishing sector, there are many delivery platforms, representing a diversity of models, such as ACS Publications, PLOS One, Project Muse, and ScienceDirect. In conducting their research, scholars and students find that the voyage from discovery to access can frequently be tortuous. The need to use […]

Blogs selected for Week February 13 to February 19, 2017

1. Monograph Output of American University Presses, 2009-2013 This is a report on the monograph output of American university presses. The report had the cooperation of 65 presses, which contributed their historical data to the project. The report shows the output of the presses and provides a more granular analysis by subject area and press […]

Blogs selected for Week February 6 to February 12, 2017

1. The importance of being REF-able: academic writing under pressure from a culture of counting Writing is crucial to an academic’s role of producing, shaping and distributing knowledge. However, academic writing itself is increasingly being shaped by the contemporary university’s managerial practices and evaluation frameworks. Sharon McCulloch, in her post in The Impact Blog, describes […]

Blogs selected for Week January 30 to February 5, 2017

1. Carving Out a Content Discovery Strategy Publishers often struggle to keep pace with content discovery demands. Emerald’s user-centered discoverability strategy provides some important lessons in how publishers might adopt a more deliberate, evidence-based approach to facilitating scholarly information seeking and retrieval, discusses Lettie Y. Conrad, in her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog. The […]

Blogs selected for Week January 23 to January 29, 2017

1. How likely are academics to confess to errors in research? Five years ago, the “ground opened up” beneath Richard Mann. Then a junior postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden, he was in the middle of a two-month visit to the University of Sydney in Australia and was due to give a seminar about […]

Blogs selected for Week January 16 to January 22, 2017

1. Interdisciplinary research may lead to increased visibility but also depresses scholarly productivity Interdisciplinarity has grown in recent years. But how does interdisciplinary research influence scholarship and scholarly careers? In her post in The Impact Blog, Erin Leahey found that while interdisciplinary research has its benefits, such as increased visibility as indicated by citations, it […]

Blogs selected for Week January 9 to January 15, 2017

1. The Measure of All Things: Some Notes on CiteScore Elsevier’s new CiteScore service is a carefully thought-out element in the company’s competitive strategy. However, it reinforces the widespread error that bibliometrics can be used as proxies for the quality of a publication, notes Joseph Esposito, in his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog. The […]

Blogs selected for Week January 2 to January 8, 2017

1. The Shrinking Mega-Journal The world’s largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves, notes Carl Straumsheim, in the Inside Higher ED post. Joerg Heber, who became PLOS ONE’s new editor in chief in September, addressed the decline in a blog […]