[…] organized with both my time and my activities, to be proactive at introducing myself to people, and to develop efficient workflows that mean I can complete tasks without getting bogged down in the things that take me more time. Anonymous: […]
[…] as well. Alternatively, funders without APC payment programs may find such a request to be so incompatible with their granting workflows as to be a non-starter or may have already determined that allocating their resources to supporting open access publishing […]
[…] But then came the problem… No extra money. A big wish list of exciting ideas requiring infrastructure and processes and workflows. But the same pot of cash. So I asked what would need to be given up in order to […]
[…] startups will move elsewhere, and the technological innovation, new metrics and tools will move to different stages of the research workflow. It certainly fits with the current business strategies of the largest commercial publishers. That may not be an insurmountable […]
[…] their flat image files with human- and machine-readable descriptive text? Technical improvements have enhanced many aspects of the digital publishing workflow, such as the introduction of EPUB3 content and ONIX eBook metadata distribution. However, there are still many technical challenges […]
[…] adopted hedging strategies. This rapidly-evolving and dynamic environment is exciting, and it offers lots of opportunities to improve individual researchers’ workflows, as well as the quality of research as a whole. In Part 2 tomorrow, we’ll look at some examples […]
[…] spate of acquisitions of essential infrastructure by commercial interests (bepress, as one example, is now a cog in Elsevier’s research workflow strategy). The goals here are both laudable and achievable, but when we think about scholarly communications, we must take […]
[…] he pointed out, it’s not only a matter of offering access to an individual press’s titles, but getting into the workflow, which means getting discovery to those titles through the big services, ProQuest, EBSCO, and OCLC. The third is that […]
[…] reputations of researchers, publishers, institutions, and even countries were at stake, and the group’s concerns coalesced around two broad areas: Workflow issues: A medical publisher says her days are filling up as she looks across peer review and editorial systems […]
[…] which in this article I mean gold or diamond OA unless otherwise specified). Since 2009 we have invested in OA workflows, trained and hired staff to push our OA program, and developed models for all formats and content types. In […]
[…] even as so much innovation is taking place among start-ups and even mature businesses in the scholarly communication and research workflow and management sectors? While we all happily use closed and proprietary software in our daily lives, the scholarly world […]
[…] re-usable. They expect the structure of information to align with the functionality of the web, expanding publishing from an opaque workflow into a more transparent one. They expect to see richer representations of authorship and provenance, and other new ways […]
[…] some fields have well-established taxonomies, others do not; even where those taxonomies exist, they may not be embedded in research workflow processes. And if the keywords list contains ‘mouse’ and ‘human’, how is one to know the subject of study? […]
[…] Furthermore, with toll access, authors are removed from the costs, and lack incentives to publish in modern journals with efficient workflows. In the words of Dr. Thomas Munro: “Paywalls raise costs, by allowing authors to externalize these ruinous costs to […]
[…] the changes in research technology and policymaking since then. I am particularly interested to see the findings related to research workflows, perceptions of the role of the library, learning analytics, and factors impacting scholarly communications and publishing behaviors. Similarly, the […]