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What is Scholarly Publishing’s Hoverboard? What’s on Our Wish List?
Several events these past few weeks have had me thinking about my wish list for scholarly publishing’s future. This is, which of today’s problems, frictions, irritants and opportunities would I put at...
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[Guest Post] What’s Happening to Peer Review?
[Our guest post is from Michael Jubb, who recently received the 2015 ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing (bio below). Michael’s 2015 study of peer review is the best catalog of the...
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What’s the Definition of “Read”?
[This is the third in an occasional series of posts on the results from HighWire’s researcher-interview series. The previous posts in the series were about how researchers locate information on topics...
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Where is the Conversation About Articles?
It has been nearly two decades since The BMJ introduced “Rapid Responses” with HighWire, and nearly as long since Pediatrics introduced “Post Publication Peer Review” (“P3R”). These were the two...
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What CEOs Say
[This post was inspired by Joe Esposito’s Scholarly Kitchen piece reporting on a roundtable of startup-CEOs. Thanks Joe!] At the 2015 STM meeting in Frankfurt just prior to the Book Fair, the last open...
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Recommended Reading: “Impact of Social Sciences” blog from The London School...
Over the last year I’ve been regularly subscribed to the blog, “The Impact of Social Sciences” blog which is one of the 60+ blogs from the London School of Economics blog network. And I realized in...
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Panel: “The Future of Platform Wars: Is this where STM Publishers should be...
At the STM 2015 meeting in London in early December, I was a member of a panel that discussed the topic of “platform wars”: should publishers buy, build or partner? The panel was moderated by Freddie...
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Panel: “The Future of Platform Wars: Is this where STM Publishers should be...
[At the STM 2015 meeting in London in early December, I was a member of a panel that discussed the topic of “platform wars”: should publishers buy, build or partner? The panel was moderated by Freddie...
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Panel: “The Future of Platform Wars: Is this where STM Publishers should be...
[At the STM 2015 meeting in London in early December, I was a member of a panel that discussed the topic of “platform wars”: should publishers buy, build or partner? The panel was moderated by...
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A View of the Past: The Wright Brothers
Along with a number of others in scholarly publishing, I spend a lot of time looking for signals about what the future will be, and especially what might presage a real discontinuity. In Silicon...
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CrossRef Reports to Publishers: “Issues” and “Conflicts” are simpler to...
Publishers (and their deposit agents such as HighWire) get regular reports from CrossRef that spark some questions. The reports are emailed, and the email subjects have ominous-seeming titles,...
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Is Publishing What We Do, or How We Do It?
Is scholarly communication our goal, and scholarly publishing just the technology we use to accomplish this goal? Industries should avoid being so identified with a technology that they can’t weather a...
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Augmented Intelligence in Scholarly Communication: The Machine as Reader
This past January I was in Berlin for APE 2016 (“Academic Publishing in Europe”). I was both a keynote speaker, and a first time attendee. Several others have blogged summarizing the meeting (Kent...
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“DotComs to Watch”: Scholarly Publishing’s Tech-Company Beauty Pageant
It struck me at the STM Innovations meeting in London in December 2015 that I was watching a type of panel session I had seen before: speakers from a handful of “dotcoms” were arranged in front of the...
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Which Metrics Matter?
So much is being written about metrics that I’m loathe to add yet another post to the pile. But this will be a simple and short story. When HighWire interviewed Stanford authors who had published in...
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“Format-neutral”: Why doesn’t every journal accept submissions this way?
Attracting and retaining authors is a significant goal for HighWire’s publishers: based on our survey of publisher priorities, this comes out at the top! So it is not surprising that editors and...
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HighWire’s Big Move Into Belfast: Internationalizing Customer Service
HighWire opened its first international office, in Belfast Northern Ireland, just a few weeks ago. Anytime an industry leader does something for the first time — especially after twenty years — it is...
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A Preprint Goes Viral. What Happens Next?
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s bioRxiv preprint server hit a milestone these last few days with the posting of a preprint on the link between cell phone radiation and tumors in rats. CSHL and HighWire...
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SSP 2016 “Voice of the Customer” Roundtable
I attended SSP’s Meet the…(Librarian/Researcher/Student/Dean) Rountable Discussions this past week at SSP 2016 in Vancouver. It was an informative session, and a new approach to a panel, at least to...
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Bringing Value to HighWire Customers
Understanding our customers’ needs in a maturing market, today and into the future In April 2016, I reported in the HighWire newsletter on the Spring Publishers’ Meeting, Stanford, USA. At that...
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