Modern “word processing” programs can do everything from check spelling and grammar to finishing your sentences for you. This might be convenient for the creator, but some “helpful” upgrades can wreak havoc for manuscript editors. In today’s Guest Post, Bruce Rosenblum and Sylvia Izzo Hunter explore the pitfalls of making the comments features less editor friendly.
“Researchers have only so many hours in a day; if they can spend one less hour on a research article because we have implemented improved workflows and better technology, that’s one more hour they can spend on research to try to save my life, and the lives of all ALS patients.” In today’s post, Bruce Rosenblum shares his experience as a clinical trial participant and how that contributed to scholarly publications.
Julie Zhu reflects on the IEEE’s journey with the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and the benefits of ODI conformance statements.
Following on from yesterday’s introduction to Kitchen Essentials, today Alice Meadows interviews Adam Hyde of Coko for the first post in this new series.
In our next Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
Knowledge Unlatched has announced its “transformation into a central open access platform.” What does that mean, exactly? An interview with Managing Director Sven Fund.
As the amount of scholarship continues to grow, Common Threads asks what new insights and utility can be found in reorganization of content for new audiences.
The DocMaps Project offers a machine-readable, interoperable and extensible framework for capturing valuable context about the processes used to create research products such as journal articles.
Turns out, digital transformation is actually more human than technical. Learn more in these case studies from Emerald and De Gruyter.
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Alice Meadows interviewed Director Maria Gould for today’s Kitchen Essentials post.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn, respectively Executive Director and Director of Community Engagement for DataCite.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico, the community-supported preservation archive.
A nice video documenting how a humanities journal is made inadvertently hits on some other themes, almost by exclusion.
The orphan works problem is finite. Current practices will chip away at the number of orphans. It is unlikely that more orphans will be created in the future because it is so easy for publishers now to hold onto rights and keep books available in some form.
Springer’s acquisition of Papers shifts the publisher into the workflow, and provides a unique opportunity to become a unifying resource.