The User Has Changed. Has Scholarly Publishing?
For scholarly publishers, the user has changed faster than the systems designed to serve them, and the gap between the two is where most of the difficult work is happening.
Telling the Story of How Open Access Benefits Society: A Vision for the Future
Traditional metrics do not allow us to fully express how OA publishing benefits society; here’s a vision for the future of storytelling with usage data in scholarly communications.
Guest Post: Time to Rethink Usage Analytics
Users (human and machine) are accessing scholarly content in new ways, challenging traditional usage analytics models. In this guest post, Tim Lloyd outlines the challenges ahead in quantifying usage.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tasha Mellins-Cohen of COUNTER
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of COUNTER Metrics (formerly Project COUNTER), which plays a critical role in enabling consistent usage metrics reporting.