How can a university press survive and flourish when faced with constant technical change and increasingly monolithic commercial competition? In this interview, Allison Belan, Director for Strategic Innovation and Services at Duke University Press, describes her 20+ years with Duke, and …
Helen Bischoff gave a fascinating and inspiring presentation at the last Charleston Conference: how the library can become an active learning hub. Helen, who is liaison coordinator at the University of Kentucky. As a follow-up, I talked with her to find …
If you thought being a librarian was just licensing content and shelving books, then think again. Stacey Greenwell, of the University of Kentucky Library, is redefining the role of a librarian at every turn, blending instructional design, IT, and practical research …
Libraries and publishers interact all the time, but how can a library communicate its vision for scholarly publishing? We all know about the limitations of current metrics for journal publishing: all too often the much criticised journal impact factor is used, …
Universities spend considerable time and money trying to measure research influence, but do those metrics truly capture scholarly value? I talked with Rachel Miles, research impact coordinator at Virginia Tech Libraries, to find out …
It may surprise some that there is more than one academic book publisher in Cambridge. Open Book Publishing, founded in 2008 by Cambridge academics Rupert Gatti and Alessandro Tosi, is one of the most successful open-access publishers in the UK. …
Meta-Research, or research about research, has existing for many years, but only recently has it started to be identified more formally. Gregory Laynor, co-founder of the Meta-Research Collaborative, is in the forefront of this area of information science.
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Adaptability and innovation are words that spring to mind with Andrew Smeall. From studying Chinese in Beijing, he was involved in setting up journal production systems at Hindawi and Wiley, before his present tole, as VP of Product Innovation at Sage. …
The Center for Open Science, co-founded by Brian Nosek, has been responsible for many of the big innovations in science practice over the last ten years, including the Open Science Framework and the Reproducibility Project. In this interview I talked …
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