Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
PIDs for Peer Review!
To round off Peer Review Week 2021, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share work under way to map out a PID-optimized workflow for peer review – and invite your feedback!
Diverting Leakage to the Library Subscription Channel
Springer Nature is leading in the effort to preserve library subscriptions by syndicating its content and, in doing so, would establish ResearchGate as perhaps the foremost service for the distribution of scholarly content. Analysis by @lisalibrarian and @rschon.
Interpreting Elsevier’s Acquisition of Aries Systems
Elsevier’s acquisition of Aries Systems sends shockwaves through the industry, but is it really that surprising?
Workflow Strategy for Those Left Behind: Strategic Options
As workflow providers build deep relationships with scientists early in the research lifecycle, how can publishers establish and maintain strong author relationships? This piece proposes a number of fundamental strategic options.
Workflow Strategy for Those Left Behind: Strategic Context
An emerging duopoly for the new class of scientific research workflow products could marginalize publishers large and small to the benefit of the Big Two. This first of two pieces provides the strategic context, while tomorrow we will review options for those publishers at risk of being left behind.
Strategy & Integration Among Workflow Providers
Scientific workflow providers Elsevier, Digital Science, and COS differ in their strategy. To what extent will they provide end-to-end integrated workflows?
When is a Publisher not a Publisher? Cobbling Together the Pieces to Build a Workflow Business
As growth in content licensing slows, sophisticated content providers are building businesses supporting researcher workflow and university business processes.
"The Making of a Scholarly Journal" Video — Perhaps Inducing More Nostalgia Than Intended
A nice video documenting how a humanities journal is made inadvertently hits on some other themes, almost by exclusion.