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Blogs selected for Week Dec 12 to Dec 18, 2016

1. Making research more accessible with Figshare Springer Nature wants to enable all of the authors and editors to publish the best research and promote wider access to research data, and other materials that support publications. To help achieve this, the company has introduced enhanced display and discovery of supplementary materials (additional files) in BioMed […]

Blogs selected for Week Nov 28 to Dec 4, 2016

1. Institutional Conservatism in Scholarly Communications: Thoughts from UKSG’s One-day Conference A recent UKSG conference explored what researchers need from scholarly communications, and whether the provisions of publishers, libraries and others are keeping up. Once again, the biggest frustration is rooted not in publisher / library services but in institutional structures for recognition, notes Charlie […]

Blogs selected for Week Nov 21 to Nov 27, 2016

1. Surviving work as an academic in the age of measuring impact Views that academics can avoid the problems of work and aren’t experienced in the ‘real world’ are wrong, writes Jane Tinkler, in her post in The Impact Blog. Precarious employment, balancing teaching, research and publishing demands and demonstrating impact are very real pressures. […]

Blogs selected for Week Nov 14 to Nov 20, 2016

1. What We Can Learn from Fake News Fake News is making headlines as questions about how dubious stories may have influenced the US election. In her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Angela Cochran explores the damage done to reputable news organisations and what scholarly publishers could learn from the whole thing. The blog […]

Blogs selected for Week Nov 7 to Nov 13, 2016

1. How Wrong Is Greta Van Susteren about Libraries? Is Greta Van Susteren right in taking universities to task for building “huge libraries” and in characterizing them as “vanity projects” that have been obviated by the growing online availability of books and other scholarly resources? Obviously not – that’s the position of an ignorant philistine, […]