[…] library discovery services and abstracting & indexing (A&I) databases, it’s a shame to see this sort of barrier to scholarly workflows. Creating dead-ends and silos in this way undermines research and shores up illegal pathways to content, signaling ongoing threats […]
[…] researchers. Guthrie: Let’s bring your farm and restaurant metaphor to the scholarly context: Elsevier has recently acquired a number of workflow and preprint tools, for example, SSRN, bepress, and Pure. Is that about providing value? — some might argue that […]
[…] process and enables it to occur wherever and whenever the researcher has a few minutes to review results. Extending the workflow to mobile devices maximizes the value for all researchers globally. With emerging technologies becoming more sophisticated, we’re entering a […]
[…] set up as an independent title on the publishing platform. The platform fees will vary depending on the provider. Journal workflows may need to be adjusted to incorporate the post-acceptance fork. New contract addenda will be needed for any societies […]
[…] OA is certainly a driver in the shift of focus of the major market players away from publishing and toward workflow services. If OA ever does get to a point where it drastically devalues the work that publishers do, then […]
The scholarly publishing sector has struggled to address the problems that users face in their discovery-to-access workflow and thereby stave off skyrocketing piracy. The top-line impact of these struggles is becoming clearer, starting with Elsevier’s absence from Germany. This makes […]
[…] squaring off against one another. Publons can no longer be seen as a neutral third party service in the data/ workflow sphere. The two most common suggestions one hears from researchers are that either 1) peer review should be explicitly […]
[…] mission-critical services? How will libraries cope with “Big Deals” growing even bigger and reaching into every aspect of the research workflow? Join us for a conversation on the future of independence. Angela Cochran will moderate the discussion, and panelists will […]
[…] these tools, and have them invite the people the tools suggest. I think this can be achieved with a minor workflow change. Instead of providing Editors with the online equivalent of a blank sheet of paper, they could be presented […]
[…] have revolved around bottlenecks faced by researchers seeking to access existing knowledge — what I have called “Friction in the workflow” in a talk at APE and in a recent article — but there is still work to do on […]
[…] with existing systems. New platforms that increase the administrative burden of university and hospital information professionals will not work. Any workflow inputs, outputs, and link-outs have to work with current systems and platforms. Incorporation of pre- and post-publication services. Pre-publication […]
[…] a neutral non-publisher non-content provider in the scholarly communications ecosystem. At the same time, it is building out a research workflow toolset in ways that are not dissimilar from many parts of the portfolio that Digital Science (half-sibling of Springer […]
[…] by colleagues. From these starting points, users move from system to system among an array of resource providers and research workflow tools. They are essentially starting from anywhere and going to anywhere in their journey to access the most relevant […]
[…] Recognize that authentication will affect not only discovery and access to content resources but also other parts of the research workflow, where just a few companies are consolidating major new businesses. Monitor the overall landscape of available and in-development options […]
[…] publishing the work of our authors? As Toby Green recently points out in Learned Publishing, most green and gold OA workflows require changes to standard practice for every stakeholder along the chain, including publishers and librarians. While innovation often requires […]