[…] technologies, but it’s also because for many people, any kind of change is a disruption. You used to have a workflow that generated PDFs at the end, which were then used for print editions and were also mounted on a […]
[…] aid of their many suppliers, publishers turn around and raise the prices for the materials that are put through that workflow. This is how the Big Deal works: a substantial collection from a single source, but at a whopping price. […]
[…] publishing than the Kindle, but she then went on. She had in her budget money to build a complete digital workflow. Now all books would be produced in XML and the various specific formats (ePub, Mobi, PDF, etc.) would be […]
[…] and which to ignore; how to deal with users who move across multiple devices during the course of their daily workflow; what information for which context; how to make money on any of this; all the good things of an […]
[…] while “included in PubMed” refers to all citations in PubMed, whether it is a MEDLINE citations, a citation in the workflow to become a MEDLINE citation, or a citation that will not become a MEDLINE citation. The vast majority of […]
[…] to pay for products that provide tangible benefits to productivity. This is why there is so much buzz about “ workflow integration.” The next generation of products will succeed or fail based on their ability to add value to professional […]
[…] a lot better about how innovative scholarly publishing has actually been. A post by Ann Michael talked about how publisher workflows and mindsets are still pushed through print, even amid a burgeoning device economy with different requirements. “Thinking about print […]
[…] technologies?” First up was Jim King, Director of Software Engineering for the American Chemical Society (ACS), who discussed their XML-based workflow. The goals were to eliminate all human interaction with the content beyond intellectually driven activities of the editors, to […]
[…] enough digestion, too much waste, not enough preservation or meaningful categorization. In short, he wants help managing the entire scientific workflow and acknowledges the fact that: The paper is an artifact of a previous era and it is not the […]
AI-generated content has been discovered in prominent journals. Should peer reviewers be expected to find AI text in manuscripts? Where in the publication workflow should these checks be done?
Data Availability Statements are a powerful tool in promoting data sharing, but what does it take to include them in a journal workflow?
Evolving forms of digital scholarship such a 3-D images, multimedia, and geographic data are relatively new elements in the scholar’s workflow. These formats appear in stark contrast to the legacy books and journal articles required for career advancement within the […]
The review article follows narrative conventions similar to other journal articles limiting its value in many types of discovery processes. Could the review article’s organization and analysis of the field be used to improve discovery in other types of research […]
[…] We can assert it, but often we’re surprised at what users really value. Is it authority? Simple presentation? Bullet points? Workflow simplicity? Low price? Oxford University Press (OUP) might find itself on the downside of both these aspirations with its […]
[…] a session yesterday at a scientific meeting and listened to an enthusiast for open data paint rosy pictures of optimal workflows and “idealized data models” (I love that term), talking about unlocking the data hidden within studies and ossified print […]