1. Biological Science Societies Hope to Convince Authors to Stay in the Society Family
Society journals are wise to do an environmental scan to see what their role is within their respective communities. Hoping to woo authors away from commercial publishers, a group of biomedical science societies have launched a new alliance to promote the value of publishing in society journals, notes Angela Cochran, in her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog.
The blog post says (quote): There is certainly value in promoting the benefits of society-run journals. Those journals actually have a large advantage over commercial journals in one way - the people. The first place to start promoting these benefits is within the societies. Those members should already see a benefit in publishing within their own community. If the journals in the alliance believe that their members are preferring to publish in commercially owned journals, then perhaps those members can share with the society what journals can do to attract these authors. On the other hand, if these societies are also losing members, they will continue to see their market share decline, making this an even bigger issue than where to publish……………(unquote)
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2. Make sure your book is discoverable! Advice for the reader-oriented author
Although academic book publishing remains dominated by print, the ability to reach readers is now hugely dependent on the online discoverability of scholarly books. Authors looking to connect with as wide a readership as possible should consider how to maximise the chances of their books and chapters being returned in readers' online searches. Terry Clague, in his post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, offers some simple advice to the reader-oriented book author.
The blog post says (quote): A good publisher will optimise the content of their books for discovery through search engines like Google. For scholarly publishers, operating at scale ensures a dependable, diverse, discoverable range of books but also enables essential investment in technology. Publishers and authors share many of the same goals in publishing books – both thrive by ensuring books are widely available and discovered. Given these mutually beneficial outcomes, it makes sense to collaborate to maximise chances of success. Authors can contribute to the success of their book by considering the advice of publishing professionals in crafting and developing their work. The advice is based on the experience of studying sales and usage reports over the years and discussing these figures with colleagues and authors to try to understand the critical success factors behind successful scholarly books……………(unquote)
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3. Enterprise Data Science: What It Is and Why It Matters
The ocean of digital assets available to the modern enterprise contains an enormous amount of untapped business value. The ability to exploit these digital assets could prove to be the single most important differentiator between leaders and laggards over the next decade, notes Babis Marmanis, in his post in the CCC Blog.
The blog post says (quote): Enterprise data science goes beyond big data initiatives and takes advantage of recent advances in machine learning algorithms and cloud computing infrastructure, to extract all possible knowledge (i.e. actionable information) from the digital assets of an enterprise and use it as a driver for change and value creation throughout the organisation. The term "enterprise" differentiates and distinguishes this strategic approach from the field known as "data science", which is currently limited to the application of machine learning and statistics on a case-by-case basis, rather than a holistic approach that aims to maximise the value of digital assets across the enterprise. There are many benefits to this approach, ranging from operational efficiencies to identifying new opportunities. Enterprise data science can accelerate knowledge discovery and facilitate its diffusion across the enterprise……………(unquote)
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4. Strategy & Integration Among Workflow Providers
Scientific workflow providers Elsevier, Digital Science, and COS differ in their strategy. In his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Roger C. Schonfeld focuses on one of the key strategic pivot points for the emerging breed of workflow providers: To what extent will they provide end-to-end integrated workflows?
The blog post says (quote): While Elsevier is building a single integrated workflow, and Digital Science is not interested in an end-to-end solution, the Center for Open Science is approaching the task in yet a third way. While the commercial firms have started largely from an acquisitions mindset, COS has built its workflow framework from scratch. Depending on the specifics of how this framework has been designed, this could provide a powerful head start over its formidable competitors. Of equal significance is that COS has not attempted to build every element of the research workflow. Instead, its vision has been for a framework into which other strong tools can be "plugged in," while it can emphasise those that are either missing or that are seen to play an especially strategic role. This has perhaps been a good way to focus limited resources but the resulting emphasis on developing partnerships with existing tools may have impeded its ability to compete with Elsevier and Digital Science……………(unquote)
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