How the Healthcare Industry Tackled Data Blocking in 2015
Data blocking, the antithesis to health IT interoperability, is emerging as a major impediment to the improvement of EHR use. Data blocking is defined by the ONC as preventing the sharing of health information intentionally, knowingly, or with a lack of reasonable justification for blocking the information. Data blocking is… Read More
A changing role in a changing market
When Swets filed for bankruptcy in 2014, the 113-year old company clearly illustrated the difficulties faced by traditional intermediaries in a rapidly changing information ecosystem. The web has revolutionised many-to-many transactions and all intermediaries - whether library, publisher or subscription agent - have needed to transform the nature of their… Read More
Increasing Number of Publishers to Make ORCID IDs Compulsory
The start of 2016 has seen a number of academic publishers declare their intention to make it compulsory for authors to use ORCID identifiers during the publication process. The implementation of this will commence during the course of the year, and follows the example of the UK’s Royal Society, which… Read More
The impact of article processing charges for libraries and what we’re doing to help
Gold open access is becoming an increasingly popular choice for articles, and article processing charges (APCs) are the dominant business model for funding them. The importance of tracking and reporting APCs grows as they become a larger part of the cost of research. Institutions are expected to record APCs to… Read More
Repackaging research findings is not enough: Building partnerships for a practitioner-driven research agenda.
If you want educators to use research, you might reconsider your approach to producing research. Researchers often lament the divide between education research and practice, sometimes implying that practitioners should pay more heed to published research findings. In the US, education research production in universities and research organisations is too… Read More
Is there a problem with academic integrity?
For many academics today, research is not about pushing intellectual boundaries. It is not about investigating a fascinating issue so much as it is about churning out publications, demonstrating impact and generating revenue in order to meet the performance targets upon which institutional reputation and individual careers depend. The temptation… Read More
The New Model for Scientific Publishing
Scientific publishing is a multi-billion dollar industry, yet little of that money is reinvested in the scientists actually conducting the research. Paywalls for those looking to access information and high open access publishing fees impede scientific progress and favour people and institutions with resources. As one of the last independent,… Read More
Can New Models of Publishing Better Salvage the Benefits of Peer Review?
Peer review, in which papers written by scientists and submitted to scholarly journals are reviewed by two or three other experts in the field before being published (or rejected), is the gold-standard for evaluating science. However, its effectiveness in rapidly disseminating good science and eliminating bad has recently come under… Read More
No publication without confirmation
Concern over the reliability of published biomedical results grows unabated. Frustration with this 'reproducibility crisis' is felt by everyone pursuing new disease treatments: from clinicians and would-be drug developers who want solid foundations for the preclinical research they build on, to basic scientists who are forced to devote more time… Read More
Biblio-Talk: Open access journals important issue in Queens County libraries
Open access journals come in a variety of forms and styles but at their core they are journals or articles that are free and open to anyone. These can be set up by institutions through digital or print collections or on free, open-sourced online sites. This movement is incredibly important… Read More
