Why Digital Platform Solutions Are Needed in Academic Publishing
While traditional books are standalone products, marketed separately and designed to inform without context, their use in academic contexts can be very different. Students use large amounts of digital content in a specific subject area in a short time. Their research, their writing and their pursuit of a degree are… Read More
Publishers Embrace Social Platforms, Mobile
In line with the classic advice to ‘fish where the fish are,’ publishers are embracing social platforms and mobile media along with their audiences, but remain wary of some potential pitfalls associated with these channels, fast on their way to dominating media consumption. Many publishers are entering into distribution partnerships… Read More
Predatory Journals Lure In Arab Researchers
Predatory publishers that do not take science seriously are exploiting those eager to climb the academic career ladder. Universities rely on publishing as a measure of a researcher’s success. Predatory publishers charge the researchers to publish their papers without providing genuine peer review. Some researchers are victims and others are… Read More
Peer Review Fraud on the Rise at Scientific Journals
Biomedical fraud is not uncommon, either, and can have dire consequences. Most such frauds involve the fabrication of results, and even when it leads to no disaster for patients, it leads other researchers up the garden path, wasting time and resources. But a recent article in the New England Journal… Read More
Academic Publishing Can’t Remain Such a Great Business
Publishers generally don't pay for the articles they publish, or for the primary editing and peer reviewing essential to preparing them for publication (they do fork over some money for copy editing). Most of this gratis labor is performed by employees of academic institutions. Those institutions, along with government agencies… Read More
STM Publishing Continues to Drive Revenue, Innovation
Research published earlier in the year from International STM and Outsell valued the STM publishing market at approximately $25 billion, plus $10 billion in additional journal revenues. The number of published articles was also reported to be growing by 3.5 percent per year to stand at 2.5 million articles. The… Read More
At #FutureBook15: New prominence for academic publishing
In ‘considering the hard-won lessons of the academic publishing journey,’ the FutureBook 2015 programme in December was organised by Bookseller editor Philip Jones to place new and robust emphasis on the scholarly sector. Taylor & Francis' Michael Strang surveys this in a thoughtful look back at the day's high points.… Read More
India maintains scientific edge despite static funding
Researchers in India are increasingly authoring articles published in ‘high-quality scientific publications’ despite continued stagnation in Indian government spending for research, according to a new Nature Index analytics report. In 2014, India ranked 13th globally in the number of papers published in top journals, with a ‘weighted fractional count’ of… Read More
Africa: How to Reach a Wider Audience for Your Research
In current age of knowledge abundance, the scholarly community is turning its attention to the use of social media channels and other online platforms. Scholars have been increasingly integrating these tools into their everyday work, creating enormous potential to capture the digital traces of their research. Not surprisingly, then, in… Read More
Examples of Effective Data Sharing in Scientific Publishing
This article presents a perspective on an approach to data sharing in scientific publications. The essence of the approach is that data can be embedded in a human-readable and machine-addressable way within the traditional publishing environment. This is shown by examples for both computational and experimental data. A need for… Read More
