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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 […]