[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] within Macmillan, it could be more effective for Macmillan to incubate new start-up ventures that serve the scientific research publishing workflow. Timo’s job was to make this happen. Amusingly, before launch in 2010, the business was not named Digital Science. […]
[…] describe the requirements for a successful publishing program, including choice of platform, search engine optimization and the development of lightweight workflows. The ARL report noted that at that time, librarian publishing was still in its early stages, describing the field […]