Blogs selected for Week Sep 26 to Oct 2, 2016
1. Old Media, New Media, Data Media: Evolving Publishing Paradigms We typically classify publishers as Old Media and New Media, but now we have companies that are part of a new paradigm, the Dat Media company. Such companies sit above both Old and New, studying patterns in usage and in the databases of information aggregated […]
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1. How academics and NGOs can work together to influence policy: insights from the InterAction report Questions over how academics and the third sector can collaborate to influence policy are not new. However, Duncan Green, in his post in The Impact Blog, has noted some interesting research and insights from the InterAction report published earlier […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Sep 12 to Sep 18, 2016
1. How proximity and trust are key factors in getting research to feed into policymaking Policymakers frequently fail to use research evidence in their work. Academia moves too slowly for the policy world and its findings do not translate easily into policy solutions. Using the Department of Health as a case study, Jo Maybin, in […]
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1. How Much Does Publishing Cost? There have been several recent studies of what it costs to publish academic monographs, but they all mistake the cost of production with cost of publication. In his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Joseph Esposito summarizes the issues and suggests a very simple way to calculate the cost […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Aug 22 to Aug 28, 2016
1. Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World Both Scientific Reports and PLOS ONE are run by an immense, diffuse group of section editors, accept papers without novel findings, and charge the same article processing charge (APC) – $1,495. Phil Davis, in his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, looks at […]
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