In her 15 years’ publishing experience, Lettie has led user-centered web and mobile product development, focused on driving research and analysis that enables evidence-based product management for a portfolio of global clients. She serves as North American Editor for Learned Publishing – read more about Lettie on LinkedIn, ORCID or Twitter.
Flashy new technologies come and go, but getting back to basics is a reminder that the “killer app” is high-quality content, composed in accordance with established standards for discoverability and accessibility.
Mikaela Jade and the Indigital app inspire us to question our privileged assumptions of “the user” in information design.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the folks at textBOX can help publishers present that descriptive text (“alt-text”) to the online world, meeting key accessibility and discoverability demands.
Does Springer Nature’s first machine-generated book usher in a new era of authorship? Or readership? Are the robots writing?
Last week’s ACRL and STM conferences demonstrated that libraries and publishers have a renewed desire to understand the researcher experience and embrace the scholarly information practices that will define our future.
This year’s ER&L conference was abuzz with the threats and solutions for digital access in libraries.
The editorial board for the Journal of Informetrics declared checkmate when they resigned over Elsevier’s open access and open citations policies. Raising both practical and moral questions of journal ownership, the editors of Learning Publishing ask: What can this power move tell us about editorial ownership in the age of open science?
Exclusive indexing deals in scholarly discovery hurt researchers and undermine the drive toward comprehensive library search.
A fresh mapping of open-science tools for the researcher workflow reveals numerous gaps and opportunities for software solutions in the name of scientific progress.
We have seen a surge in scientifically minded search engines and browser extensions that aim to supercharge content discovery — have they cracked the code in mainstream search and retrieval of scholarly literature?