Category Archives for Online University Press
Reimagining the Digital Monograph – Design Thinking to Build New Tools for Researchers
Scholarly books are increasingly available in digital form, but the online interfaces for using these books often allow only for the browsing of portable document format (PDF) files. JSTOR Labs, an experimental product development group within the not-for-profit digital library … Continue reading
The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing?
Scholarly publishing has changed considerably in recent years. Perhaps the biggest transformation is one we now take for granted – the move to digital. Publishing and scientific R&D are not the only industries to have witnessed the remarkable impact of … Continue reading
Copyright & Digital Scholarship
This workshop will provide an overview of fair use as it applies to digital projects. It will particularly benefit anyone planning, attempting to fund (via a grant), or currently managing a digital project that is aimed at providing access to … Continue reading
Scholarly work in the Internet age: Co-evolving technologies, institutions and workflows
This study explores how ICTs and the Internet are influencing, and being influenced by, the evolution of institutions, organizations and workflows that play a role in scholarly work. Based on a literature review and a structured analysis of 8 carefully … Continue reading
SAGE Publishing Editorial on the Library’s Role in Sustainability
The efforts of Madeleine Charney, a Sustainability Studies Librarian at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to connect sustainability communities across campus and support them with key library resources and services is featured in this editorial by SAGE Publishing. Read More
The Abbey Theatre Digital Archive: a digitization project with dramatic impact
The Digital Archive enables new types of research, including text and data mining, and has reshaped undergraduate curricula. It has also had a transformative effect on the Library as leader of the project. The role of the archivist has changed … Continue reading
Where is scientific publishing heading?
The scientific publication industry is undergoing dramatic changes. The number of journals continues to increase, competing for the best papers, as evidenced by the large number of invitations we receive. With many journals remaining in the traditional format, relying on … Continue reading
Biological Science Societies Hope to Convince Authors to Stay in the Society Family
As a society publisher, my colleagues and I have been asked on several occasions to participate in discussions about remaining competitive against commercial publishers. Staying competitive is a tough thing to do when you are out-spent and out-resourced. Read More
Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?
The recent law suit against ResearchGate brought by Elsevier and the American Chemical Society follows hard upon the $15 million damages awarded to Elsevier in their recent case against Sci-Hub. These are just the latest actions in a long line … Continue reading
Springer Nature published a white paper The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
This report presents the first major comparative analysis of usage data for OA and non-OA scholarly books, and provides an informed view of how a book benefits from OA publication. It also highlights the challenges involved in measuring the impact … Continue reading