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Marketing to the New Generation of Academic Influencers: Mobile First, SEO, Values-led Content and Initiatives

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 13, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Results of the 2022 Survey on Travel, Events, and Return to Office Plans

A look at the results from the SSP’s survey on travel, returning to the office, and attending in-person events.

  • By Madelyn Stone
  • Apr 21, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?

Mark Hahnel looks at the progress that’s been made toward open research data — what’s been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?

  • By Mark Hahnel
  • Mar 30, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Offensive or Inclusive Language in Scientific Communication?

Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field’s use of potentially offensive language.

  • By Richard de Grijs
  • Mar 1, 2022
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Google, Atypon, NIH, and Information Discovery’s AI-Fueled Future: Notes from a BioASQ Panel

A report from the 9th annual BioASQ workshop discussing the ongoing development and future of AI-based tools.

  • By Hong Zhou, Megan Prosser
  • Feb 7, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Information Experience Design: Holistic, Humanistic Solutions for Scholarly Products

For those in the business of information, it’s time to elevate our thinking from the transactional to the experiential. Information experience design (IXD) offers an inclusive, participatory approach that embraces the diversity of our user communities.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 3, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Iterative Development, User-centered Design, and the Fear of Getting it Wrong in Publishing

User-centered design provides a model for improving services, but is the history of print holding publishers back?

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Feb 1, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Shifting Away from Yearly Accessibility Audits: How Can a Better System be Implemented?

Justin Alexander from ITHAKA discusses effective ways to continuously ensure that media meets accessibility requirements.

  • By Justin Alexander
  • Jan 20, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect as Content Supercontinent? 

Does today’s news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar? 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 18, 2022
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

SAGE’s Strategic Investments: An Interview with Martha Sedgwick

Today, Roger Schonfeld interviews Martha Sedgwick, SAGE’s vice president for Product Innovation, about its recent acquisitions and strategic directions.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Dec 20, 2021
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

A Copyediting Carol

A holiday ode to the comma, and knowing where it goes.

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 10, 2021
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Book Review — Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization

In 2014, Google created a disruption for both libraries (and publishers) with its digitization activities. Where do things stand now? What’s needed to move forward?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Oct 11, 2021
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Important Squirrel Update

Catch up with the latest squirrel research.

  • By David Crotty
  • Sep 10, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Trends, Challenges, and Needs of Research in the Global South: Learnings as Research4Life Turns 20

Every five years Research4Life commissions in-depth reviews of its work to understand how the work of the partnership is experienced from the users’ as well as the partners’ perspectives. Domiziana Francescon discusses the latest findings.

  • By Domiziana Francescon
  • Jul 7, 2021
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Fat Fingers, Muscle Memory, Atomic Typos, or Why I Can’t Spell Orchid And What I’m Doing About It

The nuances between spelling mistakes, autocorrects, fat finger errors, atomic typos, muscle memory flaws, and the reason we only spot them AFTER pressing send.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 25, 2021
  • 43 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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