Blogs selected for Week October 15 to October 21, 2018
1. Developing approaches to research impact assessment and evaluation: lessons from a Canadian health research funder Assessing research impact is complex and challenging, but essential for understanding the link between research funding investments and outcomes both within and beyond academia. In her post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, Julia Langton provides an […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week October 8 to October 14, 2018
1. Announcing the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications There is ample evidence that diverse organizations are more successful; that including people with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds at all levels improves an organisation’s financial results. Alice Meadows, in her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, argues that there is also […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week October 1 to October 7, 2018
1. Navigating the Big Deal: A Guide for Societies Shifts in how publishers market and sell journal packages have significant implications for society journal valuations over the long term. These same shifts may also be setting some societies up for publisher “lock-in” – making it difficult to change publishers in the future, notes Michael Clarke, […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week September 24 to September 30, 2018
1. Does Adopting a Strict Data Sharing Policy Affect Submissions? Setting the PLOS ONE example aside, is there any better data out there on how the adoption of a data sharing policy affects journal submissions? Do authors find these policies so off-putting they take their articles elsewhere, or do they not seem to care? Editors […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week September 17 to September 23, 2018
1. Why good metadata matters: discoverability, tracking, marketing and more… Among the many services that publishers provide authors throughout the publication process, metadata has become increasingly valuable in recent years. In their post in the Altmetric Blog, Charlotte Perry-Houts and Tyler Ruse examine the importance of publishers providing good metadata and describe the data Altmetric […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week September 10 to September 16, 2018
1. What a new Publons Report on Peer Review Says About Diversity, and More For centuries academic journals have brought modern research from around the globe into regularly published pages for consumption. At the heart of this system is peer review. But as the research market grows exponentially the peer review system is feeling the […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week September 3 to September 9, 2018
1. Research data should be available long-term…but who is going to pay? There is now a broad consensus that sharing and preserving data makes research more efficient, reproducible and potentially innovative. As such, most funding bodies now require research data to be stored, preserved, and made available long-term. But who is going to pay for […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week August 27 to September 2, 2018
1. What use is academia for small businesses and community interest companies? Pressures to demonstrate the impact of research has led to increasing numbers of academics looking beyond their peers for new audiences for their research findings, including to small businesses and community interest companies. But how can academia be of use to these groups? […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week August 20 to August 26, 2018
1. Multidisciplinary and cosmopolitan: how openness influences the academic impact of a scholar’s research The academic impact of a scholar’s research remains of great importance to institutions, particularly business schools. Hyungseok (David) Yoon and Mustapha Belkhouja, in their post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, report on research examining how scholars’ openness to […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week August 13 to August 19, 2018
1. To move towards a more open science, we must free the data Data sharing is a key principle of open science, and research funders are increasingly including this as a condition of grant awards. Despite this, Jessica Couture, in her post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, reports on research that found […]
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