Altmetric ‘Top 100’ highlights topical academic research from 2014 - December 11, 2014
Alternative metrics provider Altmetric LLP recently reviewed 100 academic papers that received the most online attention in 2014 – and the conversations happening around them. The list provides a detailed overview of the published research articles that have generated the largest amount of sharing and… Read More
Thomson Reuters’ analysis reveals China’s patent dominance despite stagnant foreign innovation investment - December 9, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has released research outlining the patent landscape in China, and best practices for developing a strategic outlook on the emerging areas in the country's portfolio. The new paper, Chinese Corporate Trends and Globalization for IP, identifies not… Read More
E-Book market set to dominate global book publishing industry with 27.8 percent share by 2019, says report - November 26, 2014
ReportsnReports.com, an online market research reports library of over 500,000 in-depth studies of over 5000 micro markets, has added Global E-book Market 2015-2019 research report of 95 pages to the book publishing industry intelligence collection in its online library. The Global E-book market is the fastest… Read More
London Higher and SPARC report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies - November 24, 2014
London Higher and SPARC Europe have commissioned a new report on the cost to UK research organisations of implementing funder open access policies. The report 'Counting the Costs of Open Access' highlights the compliance burden associated with the move to open access… Read More
Corporate interest is a problem for research into open-access publishing, says NPG/ Palgrave Macmillan survey - November 3, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and its sister company, Palgrave Macmillan, recently conducted a survey, which notes that the open-access movement, which aims to provide researchers and the public with free access to academic work, has been growing. But most academic research remains behind expensive… Read More
Freedom of Information requests reveal payments to main journal publishers by universities have soared - October 31, 2014
The amount paid by UK universities to subscribe to journals from some large publishers has risen by almost 50 per cent since 2010, new data suggest. The finding is based on freelance requests under the Freedom of Information Act to more than 100 universities by Ben Meghreblian, an independent researcher,… Read More
New PCG study shows 23 percent of libraries cover APCs for author submissions to OA journals - October 29, 2014
Marketing and sales consulting firm Publishers Communication Group (PCG), a division of Publishing Technology, has released the results of a new survey, according to which, academic libraries are getting more involved in the cataloguing and funding of Gold Open Access (OA) publications. Gold Open Access, though… Read More
NPG and Palgrave Macmillan make data from Author Insights survey publicly available as part of Open Access Week - October 21, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan are making data from their Author Insights survey publicly available for the first time as part of Open Access Week. The survey, which contains views from 30,466 researchers, is the biggest publisher survey of authors’ views to… Read More
Access to finance biggest obstacle for innovation, says TISP, Frankfurt Book Fair survey - October 20, 2014
The EU-funded network Technology and Innovation for Smart Publishing (TISP), in cooperation with the Frankfurt Book Fair, recently conducted a qualitative survey among European book publishers. Over 1,000 publishers were contacted; 360 reacted with interest, and 120 publishers from across Europe submitted a detailed response to… Read More
Mobile phone reading on the rise in the US and UK, says Publishing Technology study - October 8, 2014
An increasing number of people are now using their mobile phones to read ebooks, a survey by Publishing Technology has revealed. The survey of 3,000 consumers across the US and UK found that 43 percent have read an ebook, or part of an ebook, on… Read More
