[…] recognizing that it’s often harder for Southern authors to understand the publishing process (how to choose a journal, how the peer review system works) and the unaffordable expense of article processing charges (APCs) for many of them (credit is due to […]
[…] will continue to develop new “daughter” titles associated with their own premium brands and will increase their use of cascading peer review strategies to flow papers to these titles. Developing New Revenue Streams. The most notable new revenue stream is, of […]
[…] will come from three sources: an assigned mentor for each project, usually from among the editorial board, a roundtable of peer reviewers assembled to provide feedback on the manuscript, and then copyediting. The first two, very time and skill intensive in […]
[…] just one activity — research — and, in fact, on just one output of that activity (publication in high-impact factor, peer reviewed papers) and just one measurement of that output (citations). It’s a system that, as Nicholas noted, benefits publishers, but […]
[…] up. The value of curation will continue to become increasingly vital, and we will need editors and publishers, librarians and peer reviewers (both pre- and post-publication), trusted networks, expertise and filtering mechanisms, more than ever. In the spirit of the familiar […]
[…] another editor or publisher with a desire to publish on that topic. This nurturing and connecting role extends to the peer review process. Editors work to choose the most useful reviewers, academics with specialized knowledge who are in a position to […]
[…] particular life science, has driven many of the changes in scholarly communications – open access, data publishing, new models of peer review, and more. In our eagerness to meet the needs of the science community, it’s not uncommon for STM organizations, […]
[…] should now be written for a broader, not just a specialized, audience Research articles are typically written to the authors’ peers: subject-matter experts in their field. And so abstracts are typically written for the same audience. Relevance ranking in a […]
[…] do this deliberately, as they don’t want to be viewed as a house publishing arm. They then have the material peer–reviewed by experts from a multitude of institutions. The reason they do this is that traditional publishing is primarily about […]
[…] it before and I’ll keep saying it–there needs to be room for all kinds of business models, access models, even peer review. Shaking things up, talking about improvements, is very exciting and we have seen good things come out of it. […]
[…] expanding the range of services that they offer (while still remaining lean and light-weight) to include things like marketing and peer review support. Most importantly for this post, 34% offer data publishing services. The Relationship Between Library Publishers and Institutional Repositories […]
[…] recent Learned Publishing article, including the expansion of data publishing opportunities and implementation of – and recognition for – data peer review. There is certainly no one-size-fits-all, silver bullet solution to the challenges of data sharing – different communities, researchers, organizations, […]
[…] producing “positive” results (and published in top journals) is what reviewers look for. There’s little to be gained in the peer review grant system if what one has discovered does not contribute, in a positive way, to the accumulation of knowledge. […]
[…] will continue to develop new “daughter” titles associated with their own premium brands and will increase their use of cascading peer review strategies to flow papers to these titles. Developing New Revenue Streams. The most notable new revenue stream is, of […]
[…] more from the RIN and missed another opportunity to tackle the access-citation question. While this report was not treated as a peer reviewed journal article, perhaps it should have been, and met the rigorous standards for design and reporting that the NPG demands […]