Have You Looked At This: NGA Online Editions

[…] the documentation needed by students, scholars and perhaps most importantly other curators. The NGA platform is aimed at satisfying the workflow requirements of that set of users in a cultural heritage environment. In the workspace on-screen, the user can view […]

Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3

[…] their stakeholders understand how to navigate and find content, enhance faculty’s ability to do their work by integrating information into workflows, teaching, mentoring and encouraging students to discover a world of scholarship that might otherwise appear daunting. In other words, […]

UPDATED — 82 Things Publishers Do (2014 Edition)

[…] or, in some cases, providing deposit services on behalf of authors. Requires setup and monitoring of related production systems and workflows, and ongoing management, as well as occasional interventions when things go off the rails. Expense: $-$$. Difficulty: Easy to […]

Trust, Privacy, Big Data, and e-Book Readers

[…] awash in it and has undertaken many efforts to better manage it and better incorporate it into the scientific publication workflow. Data analysis and process management in business have similarly been in use for decades, and the incorporation of sensors […]

Ask The Chefs: Are Publishers Customer Focused?

[…] may be the actual user of the product/service? Or is the customer a broader population of researchers whose common disciplinary workflow represents the opportunity for product development and expansion? It doesn’t do to engineer the perfect product, only to be […]

The Next Big Things?

[…] simmering issue and more of a burning one. This year’s UKSG included an excellent panel discussion on Trust, Impacts, and Workflows, including a presentation from Carol Tenopir and David Nicholas on their recent survey on trust in scholarly communications, also […]