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Going Legit Part 2: The Continuing Path from Piracy to Partnership

An SSP Meeting Session showing the results from publisher partnerships with Researchgate suggest the company is shifting from a source of potential infringement to a distribution channel that is being folded into more and more organizations.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 27, 2022
  • 3 Comments

Let the Metadata Wars Begin

Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 22, 2022
  • 12 Comments

Marketing to the New Generation of Academic Influencers: Mobile First, SEO, Values-led Content and Initiatives

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 13, 2022
  • 7 Comments

Revisiting: When is a Publisher not a Publisher? Cobbling Together the Pieces to Build a Workflow Business

Revisiting a 2017 post looking at how, due to the slowing growth of content licensing, sophisticated content providers are building businesses supporting researcher workflow and university business processes.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jun 9, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Event Streaming Start-Ups: A Strategic Overview and Taxonomy

The value of streaming video as a genre of scholarly communication is just being established. Today, Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger profile the leading start-ups in this space.

  • By Danielle Cooper, Dylan Ruediger
  • Apr 20, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post: A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?

Mark Hahnel looks at the progress that’s been made toward open research data — what’s been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?

  • By Mark Hahnel
  • Mar 30, 2022
  • 9 Comments

Guest Post — Google, Atypon, NIH, and Information Discovery’s AI-Fueled Future: Notes from a BioASQ Panel

A report from the 9th annual BioASQ workshop discussing the ongoing development and future of AI-based tools.

  • By Hong Zhou, Megan Prosser
  • Feb 7, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect as Content Supercontinent? 

Does today’s news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar? 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 18, 2022
  • 20 Comments

SAGE’s Strategic Investments: An Interview with Martha Sedgwick

Today, Roger Schonfeld interviews Martha Sedgwick, SAGE’s vice president for Product Innovation, about its recent acquisitions and strategic directions.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Dec 20, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post: Scholarly Book Publishing Workflows and Implications for RIM Systems

The ability to harvest and reuse publications metadata at scale is good for STEM journal articles but poor for monographs, with significant implications for RIM systems. Why is this so? 

  • By Rebecca Bryant, Charles Watkinson, Rebecca Welzenbach
  • Dec 6, 2021
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations

Adeline Rosenberg offers a look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.

  • By Adeline Rosenberg
  • Nov 16, 2021
  • 2 Comments

Book Review — Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization

In 2014, Google created a disruption for both libraries (and publishers) with its digitization activities. Where do things stand now? What’s needed to move forward?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Oct 11, 2021
  • 1 Comment

The Experience of Good Metadata: Linking Metadata to Research Impacts

What do we really know about the linkages between good metadata and positive, productive user experiences with scholarly journals?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Michelle Urberg
  • Sep 30, 2021
  • 7 Comments

Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI: An Interview with Darrell Gunter

Today we feature an interview with Darrell W. Gunter, the editor of a new book on Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 29, 2021
  • 24 Comments

“Positively Disrupt(ing) Research Culture for the Better”: An Interview with Alexandra Freeman of Octopus

Octopus is a new sharing platform that hopes to disrupt research culture for the better. An interview with founder Dr. Alexandra Freeman.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 18, 2021
  • 17 Comments
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