Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Ivan Oransky and Retraction Watch
In this episode, Retraction Watch co-founder Ivan Oransky talks with podcast host Michael Clarke about the causes, trends, and problems with retractions of scientific research papers.
A Single User Account
[…] would carry login credentials to whatever platform a user would wish to access, allowing for seamless access and vastly improved workflows and interfaces. Personalization: It would carry usage data and preferences, allowing services to deposit data into this account that […]
The Changing Nature of Scale in STM and Scholarly Publishing
[…] number of reference books, a textbook, numerous monographs, and hundreds of regularly updated clinical practice guidelines. It also produces digital workflow products related to practice management (AAP Point-of-Care Solutions) and the management of continuing education credits (PediaLink). It further produces […]
The Manuscript Submission Mess: Brief Notes from a Grumpy Author
[…] submission process is ridiculously and needlessly complex, and authors have better things to do than learn and adapt to your workflows. Based on this and similar personal experiences, and on what I’m hearing from fellow authors (and editors), it seems […]
Thinking Through the Lit Review: Part 1: The Quest for Comprehensiveness
[…] fields. Whatever the research task at hand, scholarly publishers strive to support the discoverability of their works through all such workflows, while libraries strive to support the researcher’s discovery across all relevant works. I have been tracking one kind of […]
Grab and Go and the Gravitational Pull of Discovery
[…] While scholarly authors may in some cases have strong relationships with their preferred publishers or journals, on the reader side workflows and affinities increasingly favor discovery over content. For Facebook, the long time lag between a user clicking an article […]
Emerging from the STM Meeting: 2015 Top Tech Trends
[…] new approaches and tools emerging as researchers themselves tinker with creating tools and resources that better support different tasks and workflows. But tinkering and nurturing new approaches exacts a price. As Eefke Smit, Director of Standards and Technology, STM, noted […]
Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researchers’ Access to E-Resources
[…] about some of the various stumbling blocks that off-campus users, especially, experience in using licensed e-resources. Even for common research workflows, when off campus, researchers can be required to click through seven or more webpages in order to gain access […]
Are We at a Tipping Point for Open Data?
[…] grant doesn’t necessarily mean that data will be shared. After all, sharing data requires adding an extra step to the workflow of researchers that are already pressed for time. When the NIH began threatening that grants would not be renewed […]
Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship – An Interview with Robin Champieux and Jill Emery about this New Conference
[…] communication tend to focus on the cycle of content creation and dissemination. Around this core is a broad ecosystem of related workflows, policies, systems, and information–all driving less visible changes in how knowledge is developed, endorsed, and shared. This peripheral work doesn’t fit […]
The Elephant in the Room Is a Phone
[…] a presentation to the Books in Browsers conference in the fall in which he talked about the development of new workflows, the limitations of PDFs, the accursed Microsoft Word, and the need to move to the more supple HTML 5, […]
A Head of Schedule — The Increasing Importance of Project and Portfolio Management
[…] can silos run on their own, oblivious to what comes before or after. Now, if you want an end-to-end XML workflow, every part of it needs to understand the whole. Now, if you want rapid online publication or new multimedia […]
Macmillan + Springer: Some Lessons to Learn, Some Twists to Watch
[…] to command higher prices on the market and be in a position to extract further price increases over time. Digital workflows and commerce. Digital is not cheaper or simpler than print. The fixed costs of digital publishing are significant, and […]
When Tools Dominate Tasks
[…] if you’re going to promote tagging then at least think about approaches that focus and benefit from concentration and natural workflow. Social media tools should be about making jobs easier, not about creating new jobs altogether. Reblog this post [with […]
My Name Is Ozymandias, King of Kings
[…] There is indeed, I think, something sacred about making documents permanently available; however, there’s nothing whatsoever sacred about any particular workflow or technology we use in pursuit of that goal. Confusing the sacredness of ends with the sacredness of means […]