When people talk about research quality, they often jump straight to numbers: citations, impact factors, H-indices, and rankings. But, as Elizabeth Gadd explains a conversation on the ATG Podcast, research assessment is much bigger than metrics alone. To understand what …
Here was an intriguing subject for a webinar, with the challenging title, The Future of the Book: Timeless or Time-Challenged? What could be more central than considering the role of books, in the …
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 …
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, …
This fascinating one-day event, at Imperial College, London, looked at failure from many angles. Speakers included established professors, writers, publishers, as well as early career researchers, on what failure means, …
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 …
Is there any point in doing a literature review now that genAI can do it for you? That’s the timely question raised in a recent article in LSE Impact (“Why write a literature review if …
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 …
Anyone with an interest in Open Science and the role of repositories will find the ATG interview with Abel Packer, co-founder of SciELO, fascinating. SciELO is both a national provider of publishing services for journals, and an aggregator of content, active …
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