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Guest Post — Making the Most Out of Virtual Events: The Publisher as Vendor

Organizations are having to shift in person events to virtual for the foreseeable future. In this post, author Colleen Scollans discusses the steps we can take to make virtual events a marketers dream.

  • By Colleen Scollans
  • Oct 26, 2020
  • 3 Comments

Elsevier Has Deployed an End-user Tracking Tool for Security. Should Users Be Concerned About Their Privacy?

Should library patrons be concerned about how Elsevier uses ThreatMetrix and how it tracks users? It’s complicated.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 13, 2020
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post — Research Support is an Enterprise Activity

Rebecca Bryant (OCLC) explains why cross-campus social interoperability is needed to adequately support today’s researchers.

  • By Rebecca Bryant
  • Oct 7, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Why Federated Access Matters: One Library’s Pandemic Story

Emily Singley discusses how Boston College adapted to federated access technologies to better support campus users during the pandemic, and why this matters going forward.

  • By Emily Singley
  • Sep 29, 2020
  • 8 Comments

Guest Post — What’s Wrong with Preprint Citations?

Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Igor Kleshchevich, and Bruce Rosenblum look at the complexities of adding preprints to the citation record and suggest best practices going forward.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Igor Kleshchevich, Bruce Rosenblum
  • Sep 18, 2020
  • 14 Comments

Syndication Success: A Report from the Springer Nature and ResearchGate Pilot

Results of this partnership signal we should expect future expansion of content syndication.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 9, 2020
  • 26 Comments

Exploring the Microcosmos

A surprisingly meditative lesson in Differential Contrast Interference Microscopy.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 28, 2020
  • 0 Comments

Revisiting: Cooperstown, Ground Zero for Altmetrics

A look back at 2014’s discussion of measuring the immeasurable.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 20, 2020
  • 0 Comments

Revisiting: The Problem(s) With Credit for Peer Review

Revisiting a 2015 post to ask whether we are any closer to offering researchers credit for non-research activities?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 17, 2020
  • 28 Comments

Changing Jobs During a Pandemic

Changing jobs can be stressful in normal times, but during a global pandemic and with everyone working from home, special considerations must be made. In this post, Angela Cochran and Jennifer Regala share their recent experiences.

  • By Angela Cochran, Jennifer Regala
  • Aug 13, 2020
  • 9 Comments

Beyond Publication — Increasing Opportunities For Recognizing All Research Contributions

Recognizing the many ways that researchers (and others) contribute to science and scholarship has historically been challenging but we now have options, including CRediT and ORCID.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Aug 12, 2020
  • 14 Comments

Ask The Chefs: Do’s And Don’ts Of Data

Is the value of data in decision making all hype? How can we leverage data to server our mission, customers, and our own operational effectiveness?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 5, 2020
  • 10 Comments

Guest Post — The Covid Infodemic and the Future of the Communication of Science

ResearchGate’s Joseph DeBruin looks at the balance between speed and uncertainty in scholarly communication, and how technology can facilitate better information travel.

  • By Joseph DeBruin
  • Jul 8, 2020
  • 8 Comments

Guest Post — Pivoting your Conference: Pandemic as the Mother of Invention

Simon Inger rethinks the online conference through the lens of product development.

  • By Simon Inger
  • Jul 7, 2020
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post — Leveraging Technology Partnerships in Times of Crisis

Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen discusses a new Silverchair report on how publishers are leveraging technology partnerships to adapt to the pandemic crisis.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Jul 2, 2020
  • 0 Comments
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