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Research data infrastructure needs to keep pace with technology, look to the future, and focus on trust

Author: Victoria Moody Back in the mid-2000s, the open-source ‘data lake’ emerged. Structured and unstructured data could flow in, promising innovative and unlimited insights. Today data science, machine learning, and algorithmic approaches to data intensive research have become a cornerstone of research. It is a complex space, and research is increasingly dependent on infrastructure to […]

How Much Is Better Rights Management Worth? A New Study Finds Out

Author: Bill Rosenblatt All publishers need to manage rights. But what value does effective rights management have to a publisher? Apart from the obvious value of legal risk avoidance, this question has gone largely unanswered for a very long time. Publishers say they want to improve their rights management capabilities, but they often don’t invest […]

Goodbye, Microsoft Academic – Hello, open research infrastructure?

Author: Aaron Tay, Alberto Martín-Martín, Sven E. Hug The announcement of the closure of Microsoft Academic later this year, may have left the research community largely unmoved, although its demise has significant implications for those working with the service’s substantial database. Here, Aaron Tay, Alberto Martín-Martín, and Sven E. Hug¸ discuss what set Microsoft Academic […]

Proving and Improving – Evaluating policy engagement is an opportunity for researchers and institutions to learn as well as demonstrate impact

Author Chris Roche, Alana Tomlin, Ujjwal Krishna, Will Pryor The challenges of evaluating the contribution of research to policy making are well documented. In this post Chris Roche, Alana Tomlin, Ujjwal Krishna and Will Pryor outline seven principles for effective monitoring, evaluation and learning for policy engagement. They were developed through consultation with researchers, support […]

Journal Citation Indicator. Just Another Tool in Clarivate’s Metrics Toolbox?

Author PHIL DAVIS On May 20, Clarivate Analytics announced that it had created a new metric for comparing the relative citation performance of journals across different disciplines. It calls this metric, the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI). Given the perennial criticism that the Impact Factor — its go-to hammer for comparative journal metrics — is being […]

Benchmarking Your Library on a Global Scale

Author: Yoel Kortick What if you could instantly see how your library was performing compared to other libraries the world over? Surely, that kind of benchmarking would provide valuable insight into where you should focus improvement efforts and where your library is already topflight. It would be even more informative if the data could be […]

Article Sharing Framework: Facilitating Scholarly Sharing Through Metadata

Author: TODD A CARPENTER The STM Association released an Article Sharing Framework to facilitate use of scholarly collaboration networks in compliance with new EU Copyright Directive. The ability of sites to capture, index and republish digital content has created a plethora of useful tools and services on the internet. Who hasn’t found it useful to […]

Can AI be used ethically to assist peer review?

Author: Alessandro Checco, Lorenzo Bracciale, Pierpaolo Loreti, Stephen Pinfield, Giuseppe Bianchi As the rate and volume of academic publications has risen, so too has the pressure on journal editors to quickly find reviewers to assess the quality of academic work. In this context the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost productivity and reduce workload […]

Guest Post – Starting a Novel Software Journal within the Existing Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem: Technical and Social Lessons

Author: DANIEL S. KATZ, ARFON M. SMITH The Journal of Open Source Software was designed from scratch using the principles of open source and software design practices. This has both advantages and disadvantages, particularly with respect to elements of the traditional scholarly publishing ecosystem. The full entry can be read: Here.

Who benefits from data for good?

Author: Melissa Aronczyk, Maria Isabel Espinoza The central proposition of ‘data for good’ is that corporations should publicly share data sets derived from their business activities across various areas of the economy to improve and guide policymaking. Based on their study of contributors to the Big Data for Climate Action initiative, Maria Isabel Espinoza and […]