As President of Informed Strategies, I lead a team that works with publishers and vendors to evaluate market strategies and to design and develop user oriented products and services. Our insights on content trends lead to practical advice and measurable results. Prior to consulting I worked in sales management for the citation indexes (now Clarivate Analytics) and had a first career in academic libraries.
Evolving forms of digital scholarship such a 3-D images, multimedia, and geographic data are relatively new elements in the scholar’s workflow. These formats appear in stark contrast to the legacy books and journal articles required for career advancement within the […]
An overview of recent events and the current state of preprints in the scholarly communications landscape.
In 2004, two journalists imagined the impact of social participation would have on the news media.
NISO has released the results of their year long study of Altmetrics in draft form for comment.
EBSCO has recently acquired altmetrics startup Plum Analytics. What will this mean for both companies and altmetrics in general?
A new book for scholarly publishers updates a classic, and shows just how diverse, interesting, and promising scholarly publishing has become.
Mobile access is reaching an inflection point, but publisher solutions to mobile access are still lagging.
With the speed of communication today, researchers, authors, and grant funders are impatient to get an indicator of its value. Waiting 1-3 years for publication and citation seems interminable. Conflating an article’s impact with its journals’ impact creates uncertainty, as […]