tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42549577630855551832024-03-16T01:11:34.650+00:00ALPSP blog: at the heart of scholarly publishingWelcome to the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers blog. It includes helpful posts to connect, inform, develop and represent the scholarly publishing community. ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.comBlogger613125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-86155610561845656042024-03-13T15:00:00.011+00:002024-03-13T18:14:15.261+00:00What is the future of social media in scholarly publishing?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">The <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/Special-Interest-Groups/Marketing-Maestros" target="_blank">ALPSP Marketing Maestros Special Interest Group</a> brings together senior marketing professionals to explore and discuss the changing landscape for scholarly publishing. On 28 February, a group of approximately 30 members gathered to discuss the future of social media.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What publishers say – results from a survey</b></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To set the stage, group co-chair, Kin Maclachlan, presented insights from a recent SSP survey asking publishers about their use of social media. Conducted in November 2023, the survey included approximately half non-profit publishers, 12% commercial publishers, and around a fifth from industry service providers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The changing profile of X</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The survey revealed a notable disparity between organisations’ use of X, compared to individuals. Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, one of the SIG members and report authors, shared her insights, suggesting that individuals can make decisions much faster, whereas organisations can take longer to adjust. Most meeting attendees agreed that X remains a popular channel for researchers, making it a key channel for publishers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The expanding social landscape</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The survey found increasing use of new social media channels, including BlueSky and Threads, as well as lesser-known channels like Mastadon. LinkedIn and YouTube usage also increased, while Facebook had decreased in popularity. Community-specific channels were also seen as important for marketers, for example WeChat for the Chinese market with 1.3 billion users, and ResearchGate as a way to interact with researchers globally.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Member discussion – break out conversations</span></h3><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Attendees then engaged in smaller group discussions. There were similar points raised in all groups, including a continued focus on established channels like X, Facebook and LinkedIn. In multiple groups, attendees commented that internal editors were pressuring marketing to move away from X. Although teams were experimenting with LinkedIn, there was a consensus it didn’t offer the same level of engagement as X. As one group aptly described it, “X is the devil that no one wants but everyone needs.” It’s important to engage with researchers where they are active. However some who remain on X were refusing to put advertising money on the platform, as it didn’t align with their values.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The proliferation of new channels was seen as a challenge, particularly in terms of resource allocation and segmentation. Many were evaluating, rather than actively developing new channels. The consensus was that existing platforms are continuing to decline, and new channels have not yet offered a viable alternative. It therefore remains uncertain where marketers will shift their efforts to fill this gap.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To make social work effectively, the group discussed the need for authenticity and passion, and ensuring a channel-specific strategy for content. Setting clear, measurable objectives and evaluating effectiveness on individual channels is key, particularly noting that channels will continue to change their algorithms.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Break out discussion summaries</span></h3><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">1. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">What works and what doesn’t work on social media?</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The breakout group identified several key factors as crucial for successful social media engagement.</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Authentic Voice:</b> Posts with a human touch, such as those with humour, tend to get better engagement. The group agreed that while tone needs to be appropriate, academics are humans too, and content should reflect this. It’s important to find a sweet spot between professionalism and authenticity.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Video </b>needs to be authentic and not overly corporate to engage viewers. People connect more with stories than with facts and figures.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Passion:</b> The group noticed that marketing often posts content about topics they aren't passionate about, which can be evident. The suggestion was made to consider hiring PhD students who have a real passion for the subject, although limited resources and bandwidth were identified as potential roadblocks.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Channel mix: </b>Many found LinkedIn to be a better channel for lead nurturing. WhatsApp Groups were also identified as a potential new channel to try, though investment in this area has yet to be made. WeChat has significant usage in China, covering everything from parenting to academia. However, the vast amount of content on the platform makes it challenging to stand out. As for new channels, most have tried to use Bluesky and Mastodon, but haven't seen significant engagement to justify a major shift away from existing channels.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Avoiding jargon is essential:</b> Messages should be written in plain language, kept short, simple, and easy to understand.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Targeting segments has been difficult: </b>it goes against all marketing principles to customise content for specific customer segments.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">2. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">What are the objectives/KPIs for social media – paid versus organic?</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Objectives for organic and paid social:</b></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Visibility and awareness </b>were the top objectives for the group. Many agreed that organic social is particularly effective in supporting visibility at the top of the marketing funnel, with common objectives including promoting readership, or recruiting researchers for journal issues and articles.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Brand:</b> social media was also seen as an essential part of brand building for publishers and journals with their target communities. Sentiment was identified as one potential measure for brand effectiveness, although this requires investment in tools, which can be a potential blocker.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paid supports conversion: </b>The group felt that return on investment (ROI) for conversion and decision-making is low for organic social media, but conversely paid social media, particularly for journal launches, was effective at supporting conversion. Retargeting was one notable option discussed.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>KPIs and measurement:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Concerns were again raised about audiences, and the level of confidence marketers had that campaigns are reaching the right people. Here, appropriate use of metrics for evaluation is key:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The importance of a measurable call-to-action (CTA):</b> It’s important to have a clear CTA from campaigns, such as engagement with a submission page.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Strategies for different channels: </b>Each channel requires its own evaluation, considering costs and reach. For example, while LinkedIn was mentioned as more expensive, it was seen as valuable for institutional targeting. Facebook was identified as having relevance for specific countries.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Set budget goals by campaign across platforms</b>, with an emphasis on optimising spend.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Be mindful of regions targeted: </b>to ensure that ads reach the right audience, it’s important to set budgets for priority regions. Cost-per-click (CPC) was identified as a valued performance indicator.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ultimately, the group recognised that outcomes differ from organisation to organisation, highlighting the need for a customised approach.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">3. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">How is social media use changing in light of new channels?</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Publishers tend to rely on the same trusted platforms:</b></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">As noted elsewhere, LinkedIn, Facebook, X and Instagram remain the most popular.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Instagram </b>was felt to be for a younger audience. However, with Facebook declining, and since Meta owns both platforms, there is still potential to reach communities moving from Facebook to Instagram.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>LinkedIn is emerging: </b>Many are using LinkedIn more intensively than before. One member explained how LinkedIn newsletters are helping to gain a new subscriber base and more followers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Closed groups and their use: </b>these were very popular during the pandemic but are less so now. However, some of these groups are still active and engagement tends to be high. There was a consensus that maintaining these or contributing to them is a lot of work and highly resource-intensive.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>New platforms:</b></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Some have experimented with Bluesky, but the lack of resources and lack of critical mass on some of these newer platforms is preventing publishers from going full throttle.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">No one in the group reported using Mastodon or Threads. Publishers are in an observation mode to see what happens next.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">None of the representatives in the group used Tik-Tok. But all agreed that this is probably not the first place to go for academics. The conclusion was that publishers go where their audience is, based on their topics and publication format.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One challenge noted was that <b>Algorithms are constantly changing</b>: the changes that platforms are constantly making are not necessarily to the advantage of publishers.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">4. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Differences in social media usage for different demographics</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>There is limited segmentation:</b> across the board, there was consensus that small teams can only afford to do so much. There is only one handle per platform. There is some specific targeting for these channels specifically, for example one member is using BlueSky to target a German-speaking audience.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Different platforms work for different kinds of content. </b>For example, LinkedIn was valued for press releases and thought leadership. Instagram for motivational posts. In other words, it is possible to pursue different personas across channels.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Similar to other groups, existing channels continue to be important, and newer channels were mostly being used for experimentation at this stage:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>X is where scientists continue to engage.</b> The group acknowledged we need to be where our audience is and engage where they are.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Facebook engagement was seen as mostly non-existent</b>, however the group discussed some evaluation was needed on the quality of the traffic.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>There was interest in WeChat and Weibo</b>, but a crunch in available resources. Some were working with vendor partners such as Charlesworth to put out translated content.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Mastodon had no engagement</b>, although some were trying it out.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Reddit was mentioned as a venue to put out “real science” </b>as opposed to “junk science” on most platforms.</span></li></ul><div><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;">About the ALPSP Special Interest Group</b></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Co-chairs: Zita Jeukendrup</b>, <i>De Gruyter</i>, </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Kin Maclachlan</b>,<i> CUP,</i> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Mithu Lucraft</b>, <i>TBI Communications</i>, </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Annabel Daly</b>, <i>OUP</i>, </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Harini Calamur</b>, <i>Cactus Communications </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/Special-Interest-Groups/Marketing-Maestros" target="_blank">ALPSP Marketing Maestros SIG</a> provides a unique platform for senior leaders to connect, collaborate, and address pressing issues outside of industry events where marketing topics are often overlooked. It exists to bridge that gap and have a forum for leading marketers who have a significant influence on marketing strategies and business decisions at either a CTO, VP, director, or senior manager/head of department level. <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/Special-Interest-Groups" target="_blank">Find out more</a> about all the ALPSP Special Interest Groups.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9oFpQAG9GAGrtgbPVpI3dZf0nW7-ZBAYaA7F5iIEIXijqUHw5qfZSxUBDxvgt6rubMNZp1fR51eCEgBk77k4haJhkJbibRgTJ3eSi2L-MqQQn9UT_WCXT03y73iCVsb0cnHMbJL8iIM8-kCpeg_x-QrbTPCazF2k8zIcR048XUl54A7sN6uWVxOOMROp/s200/Mithu%20Lucraft.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9oFpQAG9GAGrtgbPVpI3dZf0nW7-ZBAYaA7F5iIEIXijqUHw5qfZSxUBDxvgt6rubMNZp1fR51eCEgBk77k4haJhkJbibRgTJ3eSi2L-MqQQn9UT_WCXT03y73iCVsb0cnHMbJL8iIM8-kCpeg_x-QrbTPCazF2k8zIcR048XUl54A7sN6uWVxOOMROp/w200-h200/Mithu%20Lucraft.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Mithu Lucraft </b>is a <i>Senior Consultant for TBI Communications</i> based in the UK. A strategic content marketing expert with a passion for business storytelling, Mithu started her marketing career in 2004 at Oxford University Press, before setting up and leading the first PR team at SAGE. At Springer Nature she was responsible for the development and implementation of global marketing strategies for eight years, with a significant focus on open research and open access. At TBI, she provides marketing and communications support for clients across the scholarly communications industry including societies; publishers; researcher services; and technology platforms. She is a co-chair of the ALPSP Marketing Maestros Special Interest Group.</span><p></p><p><br /><br /></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-78891450470091077412024-02-29T15:20:00.005+00:002024-02-29T15:22:29.339+00:00University Press Collaborations Connect People and Ideas<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>By Annette Windhorn, <i><a href="https://aupresses.org/" target="_blank">Association of University Presses</a></i> – Drinks Reception Sponsor for <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/5qwkq?Refid=social" target="_blank">University Press Redux 2024</a>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1548" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSCswuEdxVmXGMhRlC09o3Wz20rlGvUBBlRknBwdMEqVE_FqX6xIwR2ruUWZFb87Uq6B1VHmdaaSWchfXsgsnPzELTx5IoJzky3tA1cvPKPFxRQKM5b-g7kKurPiT9T3lL32zDaESTU7TLCabGqL2hT-aHdqLGzc2Uh1GRr16imsKL3pNYe1gPD_xcRpT/w200-h116/AUPresses_logo_RGB_20180206.jpg" width="200" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) embraces this year’s University Press Redux theme of connecting people and ideas. As a global community of 160 mission-driven scholarly publishers, we celebrate and support our member presses’ essential work of connecting readers with authors’ ideas as well as their connecting with each other to collaborate and advance ideas of best publishing practice. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We asked representatives of our UK and European member presses to reflect on the question, “How does AUPresses help your press connect people and ideas?” This is what they had to say: </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqniZKVwgwAmglUuBSqFeoD2HiEjviY2513WwTqkEcdW3urEqGwdmpMwM4tS0ZSxayDdnOHoCEjUX01npn9spp4n9H7MF6Iyy1n-3CmJsSGUj9ulY4RO2MsnvVddf1swrlewdzP19fKw_hr3jvYW_-1RlJ_SxLPNgYO2TtkPdMlsIUd4-zzryqvFHgHdP/s300/Anthony%20Cond_300x300px.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqniZKVwgwAmglUuBSqFeoD2HiEjviY2513WwTqkEcdW3urEqGwdmpMwM4tS0ZSxayDdnOHoCEjUX01npn9spp4n9H7MF6Iyy1n-3CmJsSGUj9ulY4RO2MsnvVddf1swrlewdzP19fKw_hr3jvYW_-1RlJ_SxLPNgYO2TtkPdMlsIUd4-zzryqvFHgHdP/w200-h200/Anthony%20Cond_300x300px.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>AUPresses President-elect, Anthony Cond</b>, <i>Liverpool University Press</i><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: arial;">(AUPresses member since 2013)</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“The University Press Redux conference was founded originally by Liverpool University Press to connect the people and ideas involved in university press publishing in the UK and Europe. Since that time, the Association of University Presses has expanded to become a genuinely international organisation, offering that same audience a point of global connection. Liverpool University Press has benefitted from AUPresses membership in budgetary terms—particularly through participating in shared stands at book fairs and conferences—and through knowledge-sharing that has ranged from <a href="https://aupresses.org/resources/accessibility-guidance/" target="_blank">accessibility guidelines</a> to <a href="https://peerreview.up.hcommons.org/" target="_blank">best practice in peer review</a>. Above all, though, it is AUPresses’ collegiality that we value: presses thousands of miles apart are willing to share with and learn from each other. No two university presses are the same but most prevalent among their common threads is generosity.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><b>Charlotte Mason</b>, <i>Edinburgh University Press</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlyXX4PijB-q08MYpeYPBIckZPy5eZI6tnsi8BmTOTIJHMlIzP9nEXdBtoAX1VLmJxL6rCY94CfuNxEa4fH7KL-EgDMtonoAEStIintRw_c8SmUmJbIqGTyAo6u48iceDL9TOnjhviEKqQGq4_KrQoeyLn-lTUBcz7fesxglYMwTqPnaRaO8RVjJeVRXo/s300/Charlotte%20Mason_300x300px.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlyXX4PijB-q08MYpeYPBIckZPy5eZI6tnsi8BmTOTIJHMlIzP9nEXdBtoAX1VLmJxL6rCY94CfuNxEa4fH7KL-EgDMtonoAEStIintRw_c8SmUmJbIqGTyAo6u48iceDL9TOnjhviEKqQGq4_KrQoeyLn-lTUBcz7fesxglYMwTqPnaRaO8RVjJeVRXo/w200-h200/Charlotte%20Mason_300x300px.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">(AUPresses member 2004-2007, 2021-</span><span style="font-family: arial;">present)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />“At the 2023 <a href="https://www.charleston-hub.com/the-charleston-conference/" target="_blank">Charleston Conference</a>, we participated in a successful, shared AUPresses stand. Not only did AUPresses reduce the cost and stress of organising and setting up the stand, they also helped facilitate the co-ordination of joint branding initiatives for the participating presses. Librarians appreciated having a central place to meet multiple publishers and our presses collectively had a visibly larger presence, and it was also a wonderful networking and collaboration opportunity to meet and talk to colleagues from other presses, libraries, and vendors. We greatly appreciate this and all support AUPresses offers us in delivering our vision of connecting people and ideas.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1L6ATAl_Jf-BzzEYskVl0uMXm2PPcHLyDym2ZpmCgp7ZgvxgsOtSoJeqIQCIfnHWFuxKmqNSEeeHs2gkqmCdnktdIFlFD8vevqqx6Uk1045ZlWn6oA55FzMfmG3Ku7Or7sSfSDJQwZlaBd3eMlzTwAeZdXzmUkcVRkUg0k2y0iCdf1vO4LFnn5MGTXgjr/s300/Annemie%20Vandezande_300x300px.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1L6ATAl_Jf-BzzEYskVl0uMXm2PPcHLyDym2ZpmCgp7ZgvxgsOtSoJeqIQCIfnHWFuxKmqNSEeeHs2gkqmCdnktdIFlFD8vevqqx6Uk1045ZlWn6oA55FzMfmG3Ku7Or7sSfSDJQwZlaBd3eMlzTwAeZdXzmUkcVRkUg0k2y0iCdf1vO4LFnn5MGTXgjr/w200-h200/Annemie%20Vandezande_300x300px.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Annemie Vandezande</b>, <i>Leuven University Press</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(AUPresses member since 2005)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />“As a European publisher, we are happy to take advantage of the rich range of AUPresses resources. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;">“We participate in the <a href="https://upweek.up.hcommons.org/" target="_blank">University Press Week blog tour</a> and <a href="https://upweek.up.hcommons.org/celebrate/up-week-2023/gallery-and-reading-list/" target="_blank">gallery and reading list</a>, using the week’s chosen theme as an opportunity to connect with our readers as well as our authors. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;">“We submit books when appropriate to the <a href="https://design.up.hcommons.org/" target="_blank">AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show</a> to underline the importance of book design. Academic work, we believe, also deserves a beautifully published book. It is a wonderful reward for both our authors and designers to see their creations selected.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />“We advertise with AUPresses in the Academic Presses issues of the London Review of Books. Witnessing our titles alongside other notable publications from fellow university presses fills us with pride and strengthens the interconnectedness of our shared endeavors.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />“In addition, AUPresses <a href="https://aupresses.org/membership/member-benefits/" target="_blank">discussion listservs </a>and its virtual and in-person <a href="https://aupresses.org/programs-events/annual-meeting/" target="_blank">Annual Meetings</a> are invaluable for forging connections within the industry. These platforms provide a forum where we not only meet other professionals but also discover shared challenges and trends. While each press has its unique characteristics, the common ground fosters an environment for mutual learning and collaboration.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg92yOJ40q5nyHrtdx0d-OAtWP8NMzZ3PGjdSgIHZhWnF9waQxxHn3P85Qo9khdyl2pmtmIGJdlT8vmoYPIsq4ZCnehjgdT43TZ5viGJ8thnA7NzdPIpab_0nCljd3hXKfkdp1WPNK5bDnrg1EvTdUWK2oyD9AoLn0MCL18z1rrfYicUkQWineUJw2Il8H/s300/Valarie%20Guagnini_300x300px.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg92yOJ40q5nyHrtdx0d-OAtWP8NMzZ3PGjdSgIHZhWnF9waQxxHn3P85Qo9khdyl2pmtmIGJdlT8vmoYPIsq4ZCnehjgdT43TZ5viGJ8thnA7NzdPIpab_0nCljd3hXKfkdp1WPNK5bDnrg1EvTdUWK2oyD9AoLn0MCL18z1rrfYicUkQWineUJw2Il8H/w200-h200/Valarie%20Guagnini_300x300px.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>Valarie Guagnini</b>, <i>Cambridge University Press</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(AUPresses member since 1950)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />“Working with passionate people from various universities and colleges globally over the past few years—as a member of what was initially the AUPresses Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Committee and then as a co-chair of the <a href="https://aupresses.org/about-aupresses/committees-task-forces/equity-justice-inclusion-committee/" target="_blank">Equity, Justice, Inclusion and Belonging Committee</a> in 2022-2023—has been one of the most rewarding parts of my career. The ability not only to contribute my own ideas and experiences but also to hear and learn from my (now) friends and colleagues is very gratifying. I feel excited about the growth of AUPresses within the global community and am exhilarated by the future of what it represents in the university press sector.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>Jo Greig</b>, <i>Bristol University Press </i>(AUPresses member since 2020)</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">“One of the challenges for UK-based university presses is building a brand reputation in the United States, so coming together as an AUPresses collective at the 2023 Charleston Conference was a win-win. The event provided a valuable introduction to industry experts and library consortia that will help shape our ongoing business strategies; it also gave us excellent networking opportunities through the generous AUPresses community, who are always willing to share advice. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal;">“University Press Week also offers us an incredibly valuable opportunity to showcase our press’s impact in the scholarly ecosystem. We enjoyed planning and contributing to the event whilst using it as the perfect time to profile our press through our own university communication channels as well. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“We regularly consult AUPresses member resources when we need a non-UK point of view on sales and marketing approaches. Very often, serendipitous conversations pop up in a listserv or UP Commons channel that will spark an idea in the team, which is invaluable.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>Simon Ross,</b> <i>Manchester University Press </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikir9yb59NzHmIIKCxDDGgXQMRZRYrDJJqj8JMz8SE-ZUDRe6_1tCdOXPJ4cxLjTqzIIuy0i_2hYqPwRvrkKgQwEDTOJGSwjsWEn1ob0NS18Rav_sSgwBdSy0CXtdZfb0dXwnMhG72SMsIVQaasmG4T-fkR9pXXzzTFGp4o_NVt7ifswXO__HVeUbOsH4X/s300/Simon%20Ross_300x300px.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikir9yb59NzHmIIKCxDDGgXQMRZRYrDJJqj8JMz8SE-ZUDRe6_1tCdOXPJ4cxLjTqzIIuy0i_2hYqPwRvrkKgQwEDTOJGSwjsWEn1ob0NS18Rav_sSgwBdSy0CXtdZfb0dXwnMhG72SMsIVQaasmG4T-fkR9pXXzzTFGp4o_NVt7ifswXO__HVeUbOsH4X/w200-h200/Simon%20Ross_300x300px.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">(AUPresses member since 2013)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />“We’ve participated in a few AUPresses collaborations like the <a href="https://www.openmonographs.org/" target="_blank">TOME</a> open-access monograph pilot, but I see the value of AUPresses in soft benefits like being able to meet with marketing, editorial, directorial, or other peers to share ideas and thoughts on industry issues, or how different university presses work with their home institutions, or how we as a group can function more efficiently and effectively to promote the distinctive value and relevance of university presses in a crowded, competitive market. It’s through addressing these wider issues in a collegiate and supportive community that we can fully serve our authors in connecting people and ideas.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>About the authors</b></span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Anthony Cond</b>, <i>CEO, <a href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/" target="_blank">Liverpool University Press</a>.</i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Valarie Guagnini</b>, <i>Head of EDIB (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging), </i></span><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/" target="_blank">Cambridge University Press</a>.</span></i></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Jo Greig</b>, <i>Sales and Marketing Director, <a href="https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/" target="_blank">Bristol University Press</a>. </i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Charlotte Mason</b>, <i>Head of Sales, <a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/" target="_blank">Edinburgh University Press</a>.</i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Simon Ross</b>, <i>CEO, <a href="https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/" target="_blank">Manchester University Press</a>.</i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Annemie Vandezande</b>, <i>Marketing Manager, <a href="https://lup.be/" target="_blank">Leuven University Press</a>.</i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Annette Windhorn</b>, <i>External Communications Manager, <a href="https://aupresses.org/" target="_blank">Association of University Presses</a>,</i> which is once again a proud Redux sponsor. </span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About
University Press Redux 2024</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/MAR7a?Refid=PR">5th ALPSP University Press Redux</a> returns as an in-person event on 15 & 16 May 2024, in
partnership with <a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/" target="_blank">Edinburgh University Press</a>. This is part of EUP’s 75th
anniversary celebrations and will be held at the John McIntyre Conference
Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/MAR7a?Refid=PR">Book your place</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-45388292755281071702024-02-13T15:21:00.000+00:002024-02-13T15:21:27.963+00:00 It’s not about the AI<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><b>By Simon Linacre, <i>Digital Science</i> – Silver sponsor of University Press Redux 2024.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">With the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">hype about artificial intelligence reaching fever pitch, it is easy to forget that the importance of this technology is what it can do for you. To understand more about how publishers can benefit from recent advances, </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Simon Linacre</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> spoke to </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.digital-science.com/" target="_blank">Digital Science</a></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> company </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Writefull </i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">about their AI-based academic language service</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In late 2023, Digital Science announced it had fully acquired <a href="https://www.writefull.com/" target="_blank">Writefull</a>, which aims to support users worldwide with all aspects of scholarly writing. Writefull had been part of the Digital Science stable for a while after it won Digital Science’s <a href="https://www.digital-science.com/investment/catalyst-grant/" target="_blank">Catalyst Grant</a> award in 2016, being part-owned by the parent company since 2018. As such, the startup represented Digital Science’s first major investment in AI language models, and shows just how long AI technology has actually been around before its Generative AI entered people’s consciousness in late 2022.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Big numbers</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Writefull’s AI language models are trained on billions of sentences taken from millions of journal articles. This scale of training has to be matched with a strong commitment to data privacy, which means its models offer the best possible assistance to its users in activities such as academic writing, copy editing and making revisions.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In its first few years, Writefull has expanded its language services to students and researchers at more than 1,500 institutions. Having such support available helps academic publishers down the line, of course, as they see improved standards of article writing eventually being submitted to them. However, Writefull also works directly with publishers and their copy editors through integrated workflows, including the American Chemical Society (ACS), Hindawi, the British Ecological Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). In addition, Writefull’s APIs are also integrated with Digital Science’s collaborative LaTeX editor <a href="https://www.overleaf.com/about" target="_blank">Overleaf</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Multiple benefits</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As part of an interview to learn more about where the idea of Writefull came from and how technology can help shape improvements in scholarly communications, CEO and co-founder Juan Castro says the idea for the company came - like many Digital Science founders - when he was studying for his PhD in artificial intelligence.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“I have always been interested in linguistics, and the interface between artificial intelligence and how language is generated, understood, and how it can be analyzed,” says Juan.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“The idea of Writefull came all the way back to when Hilde [Writefull’s Applied Linguist Hilde van Zeeland] and I were doing our PhDs. Hilde was doing her PhD in applied linguistics, and there was always this question of: Couldn’t we use artificial intelligence to help authors with their academic language? And so it all started from there.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Juan says the first versions of Writefull were based around how people have used different ‘chunks’ of language in the academic setting. This version enabled users to search for phrases and see how often they would appear in published papers, or what synonyms were used frequently instead of certain words.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Publisher applications</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It was the development and application of deep learning techniques that opened up the first possibilities for Writefull to work with publishers. As Juan says, “The first use case we identified for publishers was to improve the language of author’s manuscripts at submission. Hindawi was the first publisher to integrate Writefull this way. Later on, we realised that we could also use Writefull’s language models to evaluate the language quality of manuscripts, either at submission or later in the pipeline.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“That really took us all the way to where we are now, where we've developed language models in-house that are very tailored to academic writing, and are applicable across a publishers’ portfolios. It helps them cut costs and increase efficiency, especially around timeliness.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now that Writefull is fully part of Digital Science, Juan and the team are looking forward to more conversations with publishers to understand their problems and see if Writefull can help them with their AI-based solutions. Juan believes that a lot of publishers have problems around language that could be tackled using Writefull’s AI. For example, the categorization of manuscripts by language quality is one area where he believes that Writefull could help. It can help to evaluate the editing needs of submitted manuscripts, to evaluate the copy editing work done, and more: “By using Writefull’s categorization service, you can better budget for copy editing needs and time, and you're also reducing the time to publish.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Through our conversations with publishers, we have seen that many do not categorise manuscripts by editing needs, or they do it manually. Manual categorisation is very time-consuming and therefore hardly scalable, and may also lead to inconsistencies.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Future perfect</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another benefit of paying more attention to the varying quality of manuscripts at the point of submission is that it levels the playing field earlier on for papers that may represent excellent research but poor quality English, which can disproportionately impact authors from Global South countries. As we see AI and related technologies develop quickly around us, Juan sees more benefits feeding through to publishers in the future.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Juan thinks that, overall, we will see an improvement in quality. “Another use case we have is with <a href="https://www.digital-science.com/resource/writefull-case-study/" target="_blank">one major chemistry publisher</a> where they're using our Metadata API. The publisher has checks in place to ensure that the XML of the copyedited manuscript corresponds to the original docx or PDF. Before, a human would check all required fields manually: check the authors’ names and surnames, their affiliations, their address details, etc. One of the things the publisher wanted to do was to improve the quality of this process. They now use Writefull’s Metadata API to extract all the metadata to compare the original with the XML, and if there are any differences it will pop it up for a human to manually review.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“I think in general this and other processes will be more automated in the future, and that as a result, less manual checking and editing will be needed. As more and more material is submitted for publication, such automated services will become even more valuable in the future.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is clear, then, that the AI hype in scholarly communications that we have witnessed in the last year or so has actually been a quiet revolution for many years, with startups like Writefull in the vanguard. However, it also appears that this is just the beginning, and the impact AI will have for academic publishers will be far-reaching in 2024 and beyond. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><b>About the author</b></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9h-CMWDRoZcU348xXaUbImCoVe9LbqGlBhLaBcrTjEPef-ipEHkvh5FClis7ZKMeqZByn9JIRO92GzknqDo3C2-2b4EbkVRO-fOjS5y5BYgJXYMrdl_a5ciT09jwT07XyESaVhrE2aUn-0_QXs6S3RSD-pjJJhJrpMKxsfOwWCasOl8UmIHERzOnu8paA/s300/Simon%20Linacre_Digital%20Science_ALPSP%20blog.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9h-CMWDRoZcU348xXaUbImCoVe9LbqGlBhLaBcrTjEPef-ipEHkvh5FClis7ZKMeqZByn9JIRO92GzknqDo3C2-2b4EbkVRO-fOjS5y5BYgJXYMrdl_a5ciT09jwT07XyESaVhrE2aUn-0_QXs6S3RSD-pjJJhJrpMKxsfOwWCasOl8UmIHERzOnu8paA/w154-h154/Simon%20Linacre_Digital%20Science_ALPSP%20blog.png" width="154" /></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><b>Simon Linacre</b>, <i>Head of Content, Brand & Press, Digital Science </i></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Simon Linacre has 20 years’ experience in scholarly communications, has lectured and published on the topics of bibliometrics, publication ethics and research impact, and has recently authored a book on predatory publishing. Simon is an ALPSP tutor and former COPE Trustee, and holds Masters degrees in Philosophy and International Business.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">About Digital Science</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.digital-science.com/" target="_blank">Digital Science</a> started in 2010 by looking for ways to solve challenges they were facing as researchers themselves. Today, their innovative technologies empower organizations with insights, analytics and tools that advance the research lifecycle. Their six different product solutions - Dimensions, Altmetric, Writefull, Figshare, ReadCube, and Overleaf - help scholarly publishers to analyze data more effectively, track research outcomes, enhance author services, streamline workflows, and make collaboration more seamless.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><b>About UP Redux 2024</b></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/MAR7a?Refid=PR" target="_blank">5th ALPSP University Press Redux</a> returns as an in-person event on 15 & 16 May 2024, in partnership with Edinburgh University Press. This is part of EUP’s 75th anniversary celebrations and will be held at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/MAR7a?Refid=PR" target="_blank">Find out more</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/MAR7a?Refid=PR" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8W4ITQqyg6YeakcdyKOt9mJh1tIicJHihvYsTPEUCIbpLqu4nB5ulRQKcPyLvxONvMc05oxddnme7LodB5nL_MYjuNvGx2VgF5fvbF0by6ZRXYBZLfw3mRQMCX1pKPskl0SQcuHZiUGR4hQJOisqm7HSoxWg9D_65XehBmGra025J7EzxkgV-NIOM623e/s320/REDUX_Sponsors_1024x512_Nov23.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-32827452993855127442024-01-09T09:30:00.003+00:002024-01-09T17:43:30.641+00:00ALPSP Annual Conference 2023: A Review by George Litchfield<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">ALPSP Annual Conference 2023: A Review by ALPSP Rising Start Awards Winner, George Litchfield, <i>Marketing and PR Assistant, eLife </i></span></b></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="400" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifhUmE9AjSfWTnOpe2ERApUS_fUiHlgEYjkGiAJ3NAsogdfvOD2ekWg5L3GtiSKVLx58uPZ5NCNJzcgclX1jteWTzq6gnalDiPdKhNRRkfXLF_iwLnXRQzY6uJK9FzHlDqzQNE0fNZkllV09iV87IzUWDDrg_XIkKM_BH5DB28tP_Bq7Lvit5BEST_3jIZ/w320-h152/ALPSP_RisingStar_Badges_Winner_400x190px_Jul23.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was delighted to find out that I had been selected as one of the four winners of the inaugural ALPSP Rising Star award. Designed to recognise the potential of individuals in the early stages of their career in academic publishing, the award offered the winners the opportunity to attend the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards last September. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Like many of my peers, the start of my career in work has been largely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, I had never attended a conference of this size, and was unsure of what to expect. When I arrived at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel, where the conference was held, I was relieved to find a group of passionate, welcoming people, all seeking the common goal of improving the way research is communicated and shared. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The keynote speech, delivered by Dr. Elizabeth Gadd of Loughborough University set the tone for a conference that emphasised the importance of Research Integrity and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in scholarly publishing. Gadd’s heartfelt speech told of the pressures faced by researchers, and the extreme toll that our current, metrics-focused research evaluation system can take on the mental health of academics. She explained how the current system over-emphasises the importance of publication metrics, be it through citation numbers or journal impact factors, and remains biased against women and those in the global south. Despite the sobering statistics and facts, the overall tone of Gadd’s keynote address was one full of hope. The speech offered inspiration for how those of us who work in scholarly publishing can, and will enact the changes necessary to improve the system in the future. For example, Gadd spoke about the advantages of moving away from journal impact factors as a measure of quality towards a more open-access system, with a qualitative, open peer review process. She also cautioned of the pitfalls to avoid to ensure this is done in a fair and equitable way.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The themes of Open Access and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion were prevalent throughout the various sessions of the conference. I appreciated the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of speakers about their experiences in academia and scholarly publishing. Particularly during the ‘Building an Inclusive Workplace Culture,’ session – an eye-opening discussion that highlighted the importance of fostering a sense of belonging for everyone in the workplace.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As this was my first conference, I was keen to make the most of the opportunity to network with the other attendees. Thankfully, the social events put on by ALPSP offered a brilliant opportunity to chat with a wide range of individuals working across the scope of scholarly publishing. Whether it was during a walking tour of Manchester city centre or whilst enjoying canapés on the top floor of the Hilton hotel. These more relaxed events led to some memorable conversations, and definitely enhanced my overall experience of the conference. A particular highlight, as a pub quiz enthusiast myself, was the quiz and dinner that accompanied the awards ceremony on Thursday evening – despite finishing in an agonising second place! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I would like to thank ALPSP for offering me the opportunity to attend the Annual Conference. It really was a wonderful experience and I feel privileged to have met so many amazing, inspiring people working in the publishing industry. I hope to be back again in the future! </span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">About the ALPSP Rising Star Award 2023</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This new award aims to recognise potential in early career individuals. The winners are given the opportunity and financial support to attend the ALPSP Annual Conference in person and write a short review of their experiences of the conference. The <a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" target="_blank">ALPSP Rising Star Award</a> is sponsored by <a href="https://www.pls.org.uk/" target="_blank">Publishers' Licensing Services</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The winners of the Rising Star Award 2023 were:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Jade Koo, BMJ</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">George Litchfield, eLife</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Alex Oxford, Edinburgh University Press</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Danielle Tremeer, Geological Society of London</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you to all our speakers, sponsors and attendees for making the ALPSP 2023 Conference and Awards such a success. We will be returning to the Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel between 11-13 September 2024. For more information, watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/CUdCnD1kAnU" target="_blank">highlights video</a> or visit our <a href="https://alpsp.org/Conference" target="_blank">website</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaL8Ke_D_83P5VNhILRCnC8n7-x8awALzZuDNfR4ZzoaorNeZ39BgERVX6owQ_wGXyr8FKRA6ZuyhiAggVofDdA65fpniY4964eMipJl3dULfcrbzkx87BifAw1DdRMnQ4jD8Sr5SX5ANFptX-XVE0hlt4CB0fw0AXyv8yCw7na8jc_yVPHR0lii5yODZt/s1024/George%20Litchfield_Rising%20Star%20Winner%202023_web2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1024" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaL8Ke_D_83P5VNhILRCnC8n7-x8awALzZuDNfR4ZzoaorNeZ39BgERVX6owQ_wGXyr8FKRA6ZuyhiAggVofDdA65fpniY4964eMipJl3dULfcrbzkx87BifAw1DdRMnQ4jD8Sr5SX5ANFptX-XVE0hlt4CB0fw0AXyv8yCw7na8jc_yVPHR0lii5yODZt/w125-h110/George%20Litchfield_Rising%20Star%20Winner%202023_web2.jpg" width="125" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author</b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>George Litchfield</b>, <i>Marketing and PR Assistant, eLife </i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><i><br /></i></span></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-29352424509185367152023-11-28T10:36:00.004+00:002023-11-28T10:46:05.897+00:00ALPSP Annual Conference 2023: A review by Jade Koo<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>ALPSP Annual Conference 2023: A review by ALPSP Rising Star Award Winner, Jade Koo, BMJ</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="400" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd9yJ7P_KJGqn7_WksZRssXtR3bJdceUWLrm-GJaDjwKRvdj6uebaHIK9dyJzvL87XuBAjQ_5YlyZ7-UzOoCcgWA2_MJmH_T4GH9y3jDHiNq4RVyyNWT1ASNdCP7yVd37a5GCco02sCiAa4C3T7e7mdoqAs4vsQCRJ8XIFwNLSOWf5rKaHsmZhKDEYDZid/w200-h95/ALPSP_RisingStar_Badges_Winner_400x190px_Jul23.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p><br />Although I was only able to join the ALPSP conference for one day, it was an interesting experience to witness this congregation of academic publishing representatives. As a young person within the industry, and with COVID comprising a large part of my work experience, it was an opportunity both to match faces to names and to gain a better sense of the industry's culture.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The underlying theme for many of the sessions centred around the industry's necessity to adapt and respond to challenges within the market. Some interpreted this need as a chance to ‘disrupt’ and rethink the structures in which we currently operate, whilst others pondered upon solutions that could still fit within these bounds. This is particularly interesting when thinking about the more contentious side of the Open Access (OA) publishing model. As many of us are aware, the OA model has shifted the hefty burden of payment from subscribers/libraries to researchers/authors. It was suggested during the ‘Equitable Open Access: Moving Beyond the APC Economy’ session that publishers should be exploring alternative payment models to prevent international inequality. However, it is difficult to see a future where publishers, whose business models have become largely dependent on OA profit, would invest resources to investigate alternative models that would most likely negatively impact their earnings. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Transformative agreements (TA) have further exacerbated this uneven playing field. For those most affected by the article processing charge (APC), such as authors based in Latin America, the Global South, and also, early career researchers etc, are least likely to be eligible for a TA, enables the already superior positioning of those in the West and already situated within high-ranking universities, to solidify their hold at top of the research hierarchy. It seems highly unlikely that there is a solution to this imbalance, besides a disruptive one that is able to break this cycle of inequity. When the ‘Disruption in Scholarly Publishing’ session asked the audience if ‘disruption was a good or bad thing’, the panel was greeted with a slight reluctance to agree or disagree outrightly for either side. The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘disruption’ as a radial change to an existing industry or market due to technological innovation. It means the uprooting of everything the industry has only recently invested and transitioned to. I don’t think anyone has a solution, and no one will until we are able to start thinking outside of the confines of the industry standards. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the ALPSP Rising Star Award 2023</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This new award aims to recognise potential in early career individuals. The winners are given the opportunity and financial support to attend the ALPSP Annual Conference in person and write a short review of their experiences of the conference. The ALPSP Rising Star Award is sponsored by <a href="https://www.pls.org.uk/" target="_blank">Publishers Licensing Services</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The winners of this year's Rising Star Award are:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Jade Koo, BMJ</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">George Litchfield, eLife</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Alex Oxford, Edinburgh University Press</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Danielle Tremeer, Geological Society of London</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" target="_blank">Find out more about the awards</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you to all our speakers, sponsors and attendees for making the ALPSP 2023 Conference and Awards such a success. We will be returning to the Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel next year from 11-13 September 2024. Save the date and look out for the call for topics in early November. For more information, watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/CUdCnD1kAnU" target="_blank">highlights video</a> or visit our <a href="https://alpsp.org/Conference" target="_blank">website</a>.</span></p><div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-15569244276349399562023-10-10T10:00:00.015+01:002023-10-10T11:02:58.527+01:00ALPSP Annual Conference 2023: A review by Danielle Tremeer<p><b style="font-family: arial;">ALPSP Annual Conference 2023: A review by ALPSP Rising Star Award Winner, Danielle Tremeer, </b><i style="font-family: arial;">Geological Society of London</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="400" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Ed9_DVwHQL1B3e2SylXkJwoRxXpx1Kj96J6V_FTMvSwe7m0nL6TjROc7nSaAyofF7r9Aekj8JZsuIE5E_e2NqJK9KGcFLYHtPmFFXOuWQSx3d44528cXlRX0GYAIcBBisuNLeAwzmU4DBpRWqtlksYR8eD9kfzrI8hq_uwwN2itpwGlVNUiRqPt9S0Ji/w200-h95/ALPSP_RisingStar_Badges_Winner_400x190px_Jul23.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p><br />2023 is the inaugural year for the new ALPSP Rising Star award, designed to recognise potential in those who are at the start of their careers in academic publishing. I was delighted to be one of the first four winners and receive free attendance to the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards from 13-15 September. </p></span><p></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When I started working at the Geological Society of London Publishing House in the summer of 2021, I was vaguely aware of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. Having studied English with Publishing at the University of Plymouth and completed an internship at Intellect, I had come across them before and knew that they were an organisation providing training and support to scholarly publishers. That year, their Annual Conference and Awards took place virtually due to the pandemic. In 2022, some of the more senior members of staff at the Publishing House travelled to Manchester to attend the conference in person. After receiving news of my award and registering for the event, I started to wonder what it would be like. Wasn’t it just for people who had worked in publishing for several years?</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On day one, I arrived at the Hilton Hotel in the Deansgate area of Manchester for registration and lunch by myself - my managers were still enroute. The lobby was filled with groups of people greeting each other, which was heartwarming to see but did make me acutely aware that I knew nobody. I got myself some lunch and then plucked up the courage to join a woman who was sitting alone. We chatted about our job roles and the sessions we were most looking forward to, the weather and the differences between the UK and the US, where she had travelled from. As I headed upstairs for the first session of the conference, I felt reassured that being more junior wouldn’t hold me back in this environment.</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The conference began with a keynote talk from Dr Elizabeth Gadd, Research Policy Manager at Loughborough University. Her session discussed the need for reform in the ways researchers are assessed, and the role that publication metrics can play in the process. Lizzie spoke with passion and conviction, emphasizing the impact that our profession can have on the communities we serve. Her case for reforming metric culture in favour of the humans behind the data was compelling and signalled the beginning of a thought-provoking three days.</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The programme of talks covered themes including diversity, open science, accessibility, and future trends for academic publishing. Often, these topics converged – several of the sessions I attended on the second day spoke of the necessity of moving more broadly toward Open Access, but of the complexities involved in ensuring that this transition is made in an equitable way. One session that I found particularly interesting focussed on the hurdles which publishers can face in trying to launch Open Access books. Journal articles are transitioning toward OA as the norm much more quickly than long form content, a trend which can be explained in some part by the prohibitive costs for authors. Two titles in the Geological Society’s flagship Special Publications book series have had every article published OA in 2023, and this is something we are looking towards expanding with the announcement of UKRI’s Open Access books policy. It was very informative to hear industry experts discuss the potential pitfalls we may come up against, and of their advocacy for models such as Subscribe to Open.</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The talks weren’t the only opportunity to learn from my peers. In the coffee breaks between sessions, at lunchtime and at the various social events (including the welcome reception on Wednesday and the dinner, awards and quiz on Thursday), everyone was friendly and open to chatting. Despite my anxieties that I would be much earlier in my publishing career than everyone else, I found myself socialising with not only managers and directors but those who were in their first or second roles in the industry – including the other winners of the <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/rising-star-award" target="_blank">ALPSP Rising Star Award</a>. It was refreshing to speak with peers who shared similar professional concerns. Finding out that my friends and family are not the only ones to presume a job in publishing means that I write books is a conversation that sticks out in my memory!. A particular highlight of the conference was the dinner and quiz on Thursday. The food was delicious and the camaraderie around our table as we tried to work out the answers to questions on everything from music to geography made up for the fact that we came close to the bottom of the leaderboard… </span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As someone who started working in the industry during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact that meeting peers from other companies had on me during the conference can’t be overstated. During the ALPSP AGM, a presentation was given encouraging members to propose new <a href="https://alpsp.org/Special-Interest-Groups" target="_blank">Special Interest Groups</a> (SIG) and I found myself wondering if a group for those who are (fairly) new to academic publishing would be feasible. As the Rising Star award winners prepared to have their photographs taken on the Thursday, I was asked if any of us would be interested in co-chairing a SIG of just that nature. Watch this space!</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sitting on the train home on Friday afternoon, I reflected on how grateful I am to work in an industry that is so invested in bettering itself, in sharing ideas, in community. Publishing is ultimately a business which is all about people, though we can lose sight of this sometimes. The ALPSP conference was a fantastic reminder of why I got into this job in the first place, and I look forward to attending again in the future.</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the ALPSP Rising Star Award 2023</b><br />This new award aims to recognise potential in early career individuals. The winners are given the opportunity and financial support to attend the ALPSP Annual Conference in person and write a short review of their experiences of the conference. The ALPSP Rising Star Award is sponsored by <a href="https://www.pls.org.uk/" target="_blank">Publishers Licensing Services</a>.</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The winners of this year's Rising Star Award are:<br />•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jade Koo, BMJ<br />•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>George Litchfield, eLife<br />•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alex Oxford, Edinburgh University Press<br />•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Danielle Tremeer, Geological Society of London</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/rising-star-award" target="_blank">Find out more about the awards</a>.</span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards</b><br />Thank you to all our speakers, sponsors and attendees for making the ALPSP 2023 Conference and Awards such a success. We will be returning to the Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel next year from 11-13 September 2024. Save the date and look out for the call for topics in early November. For more information, watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/CUdCnD1kAnU?si=LuYMnmYOtClVFdKs" target="_blank">highlights video</a> or visit our <a href="https://alpsp.org/Conference" target="_blank">website</a>.<br /><br /><b>About the Author</b><br /><b>Danielle Tremeer</b>, <i>Publishing Assistant, Geological Society of London</i></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_uB0p46QROyNsE-O2jDL1_B1_1219C3Sqwe6tozbqbjGL2kK7h1Ca_NqdoyPLi0nN_fHWxTTz90Si9nvVWLehLRCeESR6MxFyjLYrAY4TtB8Nskq_LFDgKcmCLo7-d5i0YZiqSoJlWHFxjwqC_rK4vqskRzxrIj4_uaYxNluvOrwJkS6eYGarS3u3Nfa/s300/Danielle%20Tremeer_GS_Rising%20Star%20winner_2023.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_uB0p46QROyNsE-O2jDL1_B1_1219C3Sqwe6tozbqbjGL2kK7h1Ca_NqdoyPLi0nN_fHWxTTz90Si9nvVWLehLRCeESR6MxFyjLYrAY4TtB8Nskq_LFDgKcmCLo7-d5i0YZiqSoJlWHFxjwqC_rK4vqskRzxrIj4_uaYxNluvOrwJkS6eYGarS3u3Nfa/w149-h149/Danielle%20Tremeer_GS_Rising%20Star%20winner_2023.png" width="149" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Danielle Tremeer is a Publishing Assistant at the Geological Society of London, working primarily on their books programme since 2021. She is the main contact for authors and editors, providing assistance throughout the submission and publication process. Recently, she has been involved in wider projects such as the development of transformative agreements and commissioning efforts. Prior to this role, Danielle completed an internship at Intellect Books and holds a degree in English with Publishing from the University of Plymouth. </span><p></p><p></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-13793177921003411432023-09-21T09:59:00.001+01:002023-09-21T10:08:08.923+01:00Responding to Community Needs: a collaborative transition to open access publishing<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>By </b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Damaris Critchlow, </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://karger.com/" target="_blank">Karger </a>– Silver sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/event/eb145cef-627e-4059-a4a5-d51799c61244/websitePage:7fbb9e72-33e2-4188-9b9a-fdb799d34e65?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://karger.com/pages/what-we-solve" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjugpXlF7w59oc_nUHKMyUtG3Lx_ek2LAbuqAvwGULEN_bTXvTTDWR5y4WT--7crXNzLogwjm47tC_4PCaOrQHc-ZizN16hjuQ8SvPg3RfawWGz7FYAZQ3z99mMi2QMXdlWohgDHmKwBd8ef291LulrEv7kk7cafP5nQfXtBZiguGOCYP0FIZ-gg4dOJ2H7/w200-h100/Karger%20logo_social.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Karger has a long history of connecting across communities of researchers, healthcare practitioners, and patients. With over 130 years of experience publishing in the health sciences, we understand that experience must be coupled with innovation and flexibility. To engage with our broad audiences and make a difference for our customers, we need to actively respond to and consider their different needs with tailored options, content, and products. As an independent family-owned publisher, we have never taken a ‘one size fits all’ approach to making knowledge accessible, applicable, and visible. It is important to us that we customize and tailor our approach for virtually every organization, including around open access. That is why we not only publish journals, but also look at knowledge creation and engagement throughout the research lifecycle to connect with researchers and the people who read and are impacted by research holistically. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Different Community Needs</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We’re vocal and proud that we are Open for Open, a statement we live by. With Open access (OA), our ethos of providing tailored solutions has been put to the test as, even within the health sciences, the communities who publish in our journals need different routes to publish. Even as a medium size publisher with around 100 journals within the Health Sciences, we see huge differences in funding, requirements, norms, ambitions, and guidance. Multiply that by the wide variety of Open Science policies that we see globally reflected in our author and editorial board profiles, and it is a complex picture. In 2022, our authors and editorial board members came from around 100 different countries. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">From Europe-led initiatives like Plan S, which require recipients of participating funders’ research grants to publish in journals that make articles immediately open, to <a href="https://www.jst.go.jp/EN/about/openscience/policy_openscience_en_r4.pdf" target="_blank">Japanese recommendations</a> that articles should be made open access within 12 months of publication, a growing trend for <a href="https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/CAST_STM_Open_Access_Publishing_in_China_2022-EnglishEdition-final/21708113/2" target="_blank">Gold Open Access in China</a>, US federally funded research to be made immediately open from 2025 as in the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf" target="_blank">Nelson Memo</a>, and recognition from the <a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/" target="_blank">Budapest Open Access Initiative</a> that APCs (Article Processing Charges) can be exclusionary, it is a challenging landscape to navigate! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While access to science is not to be debated anymore, it is increasingly clear that Gold open access is not a route that works for everyone, and this also holds true for Karger. <a href="https://karger.com/pages/open-access" target="_blank">Open access</a> needs to be adaptable and responsive to the various needs of authors, editors, readers, and the sustainability of the journals. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Different Adaptable models</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The needs of different communities are why we support different routes for Open Access. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, we have been excited to pilot S2O in two journals, <a href="https://karger.com/pne" target="_blank">Pediatric Neurosurgery</a> and <a href="https://karger.com/dne" target="_blank">Developmental Neuroscience</a>. We see S2O as an alternative way to move journals to Open Access, while alleviating some of the challenges it brings. It unites different stakeholders in Open Access and offers a bridge between established subscription paths and an OA future. This model uses the subscription base that already exists to make journals free to read and publish in. Unlike Gold Open Access journals that are continually Open Access, the OA status of S2O journals is decided volume by volume, dependent on the level of subscriptions. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We have also proactively encouraged increased Open Access via our <a href="https://karger.com/pages/transformative-journals" target="_blank">Transformative Journals</a>, which are another route to support authors to comply with their individual open access requirements whilst enabling compliance with Plan S mandates and advancing open access. Flipping to OA depends on authors’ needs and interests, so when a journal has more than 75% of its content open access, the whole journal is ‘flipped’ to open. It has been of utmost importance to us to give authors freedom to publish according to their needs and funder requirements, and to provide them with a suitable open access alternative. We have successfully converted 15 journals to open access in the last few years alone and while this was an undeniably challenging process, the benefits of visibility and outreach are clear. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A growing number of our authors who publish OA in our journals are covered by Transformative agreements negotiated with institutions whereby institutions pay the full or partial costs of their researchers’ OA publications (in hybrid or OA journals). This allows authors to publish Open Access according to their needs, in any journal of their choice. Flexibility is key. As well, Karger has long been supportive of Green Open Access – making articles open via a repository. This makes content widely accessible whether it’s published in an OA or a hybrid journal. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Several of Karger’s Open Access journals provide Diamond Open Access. Our Partner Publications are published on behalf of academic research institutions, societies government bodies or research funders. Both reading and publishing in the journals is free, with costs covered by the partner organizations – an alternative solution to provide Open Access in a somehow more equitable manner. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>A Collaborative Approach </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Crucially, it has been important for us to work with our Editors-in-Chief and our Editorial Board Members for a tailored and collaborative approach. The sustainability and success of the journals and the research they publish is the joint project that Karger and our editorial boards are invested in. It is an ongoing conversation we have with our editors and authors. As always, we return to our community, because no transition can be successful if the scope or timing does not meet the community’s needs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This collaborative approach and team effort is emphasized by Prof. Dr Hendrik Scholl, from the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), the Editor-in-Chief of a recently ‘flipped’ journal, Ophthalmic Research. Following the journal’s transition to OA., Prof. Scholl said, ‘The Editor-in-Chief is important, you give vision and direction, but you need people to implement it who have (…) experience. That’s the case with Karger Publishers.(…) It was a team effort. The second [important aspect] was communication …my colleagues in the Editorial Board…we discussed together. People were committed to the transition.’ And, overall how did it turn out? ‘The outcome was excellent. That’s the short summary.’ </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Find out more about our customized options here: <a href="https://karger.com/pages/what-we-solve" target="_blank">What We Solve | Karger Publishers and get in touch</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Karger is a proud silver sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/event/eb145cef-627e-4059-a4a5-d51799c61244/websitePage:7fbb9e72-33e2-4188-9b9a-fdb799d34e65?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOSBprRqvWZ_LDiD6oYrCx-Gut_qmLJ8oKFZ9AO-J54MaLddQeKDHChurp54nuJ-aEvW1aCyPzIzCcww8l97EIrKzA7oRd6Vv05D5dZ3W_5_bQ0F3jl_37vRkjAtOEJU-mhgo-N1dXqqdPvHkwrsXuB0udD0nWez_nLotFEKfU9TutfECHQ-cFcUCTzFrr/s509/Damaris%20Critchlow_Karger_ALPSP%20blog.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="509" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOSBprRqvWZ_LDiD6oYrCx-Gut_qmLJ8oKFZ9AO-J54MaLddQeKDHChurp54nuJ-aEvW1aCyPzIzCcww8l97EIrKzA7oRd6Vv05D5dZ3W_5_bQ0F3jl_37vRkjAtOEJU-mhgo-N1dXqqdPvHkwrsXuB0udD0nWez_nLotFEKfU9TutfECHQ-cFcUCTzFrr/w130-h129/Damaris%20Critchlow_Karger_ALPSP%20blog.jpeg" width="130" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Damaris Critchlow</b> is a <i>Project Manager at Karger</i>, a worldwide publisher of scientific and medical content with the aim to connect and advance the health sciences. Since its foundation in 1890, Karger has been continuously evolving, keeping pace with developments and shifts in research and publishing. Damaris joined Karger in January 2023 and is excited by opportunities for innovation that come with close connections to researcher communities. </span><p></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-68452133153121661712023-09-08T09:00:00.006+01:002023-09-08T09:00:00.137+01:00The Tightrope of Transparency: Research integrity and the media<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>By Sami Benchekroun, <a href="https://www.morressier.com/" target="_blank">Morressier </a>– Gold sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiViJm1_bOn0YukFHnOYMyrd3_DFWkFSqtStWgFkzW6BKHt-1Q84H-2didcUWFd55dnvbrIxvoQcggeaWCuqZOsrcdAs7SUskVPSGlGR58AzDdQQ7ibT9sNxwZm4TlFdaDbvnk8b1EbH9WVOqpCwLpHkmvuE9u9aiKeuear8Vg3e7pi0bjz5xaX2T318nWm/s243/Morressier%20Logo_web2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="127" data-original-width="243" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiViJm1_bOn0YukFHnOYMyrd3_DFWkFSqtStWgFkzW6BKHt-1Q84H-2didcUWFd55dnvbrIxvoQcggeaWCuqZOsrcdAs7SUskVPSGlGR58AzDdQQ7ibT9sNxwZm4TlFdaDbvnk8b1EbH9WVOqpCwLpHkmvuE9u9aiKeuear8Vg3e7pi0bjz5xaX2T318nWm/w200-h104/Morressier%20Logo_web2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">American writer Elbert Hubbard said "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it", a sentiment everyone in the scholarly publishing community would surely agree with! I often find myself wondering how scholarly publishing could move faster. I imagine the massive impact sharing breakthroughs earlier in the research lifecycle could have on innovation, invention, and progress. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I believe there’s a path to speed that sacrifices none of the quality and integrity we need to restore trust in science. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But recently, a series of news headlines reminded me of a problem with speed, and with sharing science before it's been proven to be reproducible, or before it's undergone peer review. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In July, the headlines shared a remarkable discovery with the LV Superconductor. This superconductor would conduct electricity at room temperature, and would have profound and transformative impacts on energy, among other things. In short order, there was <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/spectacular-superconductor-claim-making-news-here-s-why-experts-are-doubtful" target="_blank">scepticism</a>. Experts in the field questioned the validity of the findings and the media’s runaway with the story. But within weeks, other labs had taken a look at the data and validated it <a href="https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/07/lawrence-berkeley-lab-simulations-support-lk-99-superconductor.html" target="_blank">further</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The result is confusing for the public, and damaging to the credibility of the researchers involved. Trust is fragile, and this type of science communication is harmful to that trust. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">What’s the solution here? It’s certainly not to stop sharing, to stop pushing for earlier sharing in the research lifecycle. Within the scientific community, scepticism is a vital part of validating new discoveries, questioning and testing further. To put it simply: that debate and discourse is how science works. The issue comes with how that communication translates when it extends beyond the scientific community. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'd like to imagine a future where publishers and those involved in publishing take responsibility for educating the media and the public about how science works. In this future, the public will understand the importance of reproducibility, or how any new discovery carries with it scepticism and uncertainty until it is validated by peer review and replicated studies. When scientists talk about ‘uncertainty,’ that cannot carry with it a mistrust with the public. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Preprint servers, and early stage research shared at conferences and through conference proceedings, is critical for accelerating science. But we’ve seen again and again, the challenges of reporting on the nuances of the research lifecycle. We don’t have to look back far to see the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01654-6" target="_blank">rapid rise of preprints</a> during the need for information during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. These early preprints were posted, and while many became quickly indispensable in the months before they could be peer reviewed, some were quickly criticized and withdrawn from the servers. But before those outliers could even be withdrawn, they had spawned conspiracy theories. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Again, the solution here is not to stop sharing preprints. They are invaluable, and the debate that occurred in those criticized preprints stopped countless scientists from pursuing paths of study that had already been debated. It's when that information is taken out of context, without the caveats stated in the paper or an understanding of the role of a preprint in scientific discourse, that we run into problems with scientific communication. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://journalistsresource.org/health/how-media-cover-preprint-studies/" target="_blank">Research on science communication</a> shows that in 2021, most news sources, when reporting on preprints, do not mention that they’re referencing a preprint, nor that the work is unreviewed, preliminary, or requiring more verification. There is a huge gap here, between how scientists understand uncertainty in preprints, and how the media portrays that uncertainty. That gap has the potential to widen into a chasm, with the hope for a future where research holds the highest standards of integrity and trust falling to the bottom. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In order to preserve the role of uncertainty in the scientific community, it's crucial to put scientific discoveries into context for both the media and the wider public. That means education on the iterative nature of science, the fact that our knowledge evolves. It involves minimizing the coverage of individual studies, without covering their context within the broader scope of the discipline. That also means educating on the role of early-stage research, preprint servers and more. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Communicating science within the research community serves a different purpose compared to journalists communicating science to their audiences. Within the research community, we share because we want to build on new ideas and understand the latest findings in order to advance our own research. For the media, the goal is viewership or readership, and getting the most eyeballs on a piece of content, even if that means finding a ‘newsworthy’ piece of data and removing it from the deeper context of a paper or a field. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Both science and journalism strive for accuracy. But in the disconnect between publishing goals, there is a void where, for the sake of newsworthiness, we risk complicating the public’s understanding of science. And once we do that, we risk trust in science overall. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Research integrity is a critical goal for this industry, but I suggest that it can only go so far without an accompanying strategy of awareness and education, to ensure that the communication of research is equally integrity-rich. For more on the future of research integrity, I invite you all to read our <a href="https://www.morressier.com/company/morressiers-guide-to-research-integrity" target="_blank">Research Integrity Guide</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We are ready to start this conversation on research integrity, media literacy, and stakeholder responsibility. Will you join us? <a href="https://www.morressier.com/contact/demo" target="_blank">Get in touch</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Morressier is a proud Gold sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPu6CE-2igjnHH2mgdSjyZqqGfICb0JKjiaehmvn-21ByA3-7iqdPkTSrBy5vvIemzMHIaKnlmHtsMOfGKThMdL4DCw3jl8qmCcYDExOsw9jP_Z2f4UiYgVjEPYMwPeKKJ36ZUWFHlSNgn02-8RNml9SUvWvmD8bIbPIAHRagXv3RqFyRbkYNKj2eu6mr/s300/Sami%20Benchekroun_Morressier_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPu6CE-2igjnHH2mgdSjyZqqGfICb0JKjiaehmvn-21ByA3-7iqdPkTSrBy5vvIemzMHIaKnlmHtsMOfGKThMdL4DCw3jl8qmCcYDExOsw9jP_Z2f4UiYgVjEPYMwPeKKJ36ZUWFHlSNgn02-8RNml9SUvWvmD8bIbPIAHRagXv3RqFyRbkYNKj2eu6mr/w139-h139/Sami%20Benchekroun_Morressier_web.jpg" width="139" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Sami Benchekroun</b> is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morressier, the home of workflows to transform how science is discovered, disseminated and analyzed. He drives Morressier's vision forward and is dedicated to accelerating scientific breakthroughs by making the entire scholarly process, from the first spark on, much more transparent. Sami has over ten years of experience in academic conferences, scholarly communications, and entrepreneurship, and has a background studying management at ESCP Europe.</span><p></p><br /><p><br /></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-75799900225989368082023-09-07T09:00:00.001+01:002023-09-07T09:00:00.131+01:00Breaking down barriers<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>How collaboration is advancing disability equity in scholarly communications</b></span></p><p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>By Erin Osborne-Martin,
Wiley Partner Solutions</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mUKetDZS-uljZAO6Ri8MP40WgIbKpIiM171FX9pDgmIaDieP_2OGG3-PT0poOxp5rL_VQoEd-fj7axE6BEsDElGLP-I8jKRcK3EV-dEdDR_q-JOzVXhRDdONfDYLaYWuAC05rwL2eXsQe0nB2n6YiiYKD848sjlP08L2WGxrYpblJi6789ziwvSe4_p9/s1024/Wiley%20Partner%20Solutions_social.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mUKetDZS-uljZAO6Ri8MP40WgIbKpIiM171FX9pDgmIaDieP_2OGG3-PT0poOxp5rL_VQoEd-fj7axE6BEsDElGLP-I8jKRcK3EV-dEdDR_q-JOzVXhRDdONfDYLaYWuAC05rwL2eXsQe0nB2n6YiiYKD848sjlP08L2WGxrYpblJi6789ziwvSe4_p9/w200-h100/Wiley%20Partner%20Solutions_social.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bit.ly/45xZijc" target="_blank">Wiley Partner Solutions</a> is a proud silver sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">According to the World Health Organization, <a href="https://bit.ly/47UOcq0" target="_blank">more than 15% of people worldwide have a disability</a> - that’s over 1.1 billion people. And around <a href="https://bit.ly/3L7dJ5v" target="_blank">80% of disabilities are ‘hidden’</a>, meaning it’s likely you already work with many people with disabilities, without being aware of it. In this context, it’s more important than ever for scholarly communications to be more disability confident.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We need to make sure that everyone has the same access to knowledge and the ability to participate in the scholarly communications process. We also need to include the lived experiences and problem-solving abilities people with disabilities bring to the workplace.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The power of cross-industry collaboration can help. We can create a shared understanding of the challenges faced by people with disabilities and provide best practices and resources for enabling participation. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At <a href="https://bit.ly/45xZijc" target="_blank">Wiley Partner Solutions</a>, collaboration is in our DNA. It’s how we’re helping societies and publishers better serve their communities whilst exceeding their business goals, and it’s built within our team culture. I’m thrilled to be dedicating the time, alongside other publishers, librarians, and researchers, to develop the Equity Toolkit for Disability Inclusion. This new toolkit will:</span></p><ul><li><b style="font-family: arial;">Provide a free and interactive online hub</b></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It will give access to high quality, curated resources and best practices, vetted by knowledgeable people. There’ll also be actionable insights for employees with disabilities, managers, and allies working in scholarly communications.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Evolve over time</b></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The toolkit won’t be static. Continuous updates will be made in response to changing community needs.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Meet accessibility standards</b></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It will have good search capabilities, topic and format filtering, and a variety of resource types (text, video, audio).</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The toolkit isn’t being put together overnight; we’re taking a thoughtful and thorough approach. The Publishing Enabled organization, which I’ve been part of since 2019, is driving the creation of the toolkit in partnership with C4Disc. We’ll be officially announcing the launch of the initial version of the toolkit in the next few months – keep an eye out on <a href="https://bit.ly/3Z3caLB" target="_blank">LinkedIn </a>and elsewhere.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>To learn more at ALPSP 2023, join us at</b>:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bit.ly/45y8pQG" target="_blank">The power of cross-industry collaboration: the Toolkit for Disability Equity in Scholarly Communications</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">📅 Thursday 14 September, 13:15-13:55 (BST)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Speakers:</b> <b>Erin Osborne-Martin </b>(<i>Wiley Partner Solutions</i>), <b>Simon Holt </b>(<i>Elsevier</i>), and <b>Karen Stoll Farrel</b>l (<i>Indiana University Bloomington</i>) </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Further reading:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications <a href="https://bit.ly/45PC5IU" target="_blank">toolkits for equity</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3Ej8bky" target="_blank">10 Quick Wins to Make Your Organization More Disability Inclusive</a> via the Scholarly Kitchen </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3qRRKJ1" target="_blank">Why disability data capture is key to improving inclusion outcomes in scholarly publishing</a>, Learned Publishing, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2023</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3L4VJZq" target="_blank">Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Fostering Empathy</a> via the Scholarly Kitchen</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">About the author</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Erin Osborne-Martin</b> is <i>Associate Director, Strategic Analytics at Wiley Partner Solutions</i>, responsible for market insights and data analytics that inform business development strategies. Before that, she worked for over 15 years in society-focused scholarly communications, primarily at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, where she led the flip of their publishing portfolio to open access. After sustaining a spinal cord injury in 2017, Erin became active in disability advocacy through the BackUp Trust, a spinal injury charity, and Transport for All, a group that works for more accessible public transportation.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">About Wiley Partner Solutions<br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE57_yFF8U7yUukrL3NwIpzBsX3qaAVpge0pRMxj-D_SbihOakYVzj78WgMViFTFdUXrMJ0MjBy0izp4xqvpLF5OcYzNIntEF02paEoSo08I8u8TiaBMe37FJcpxPjkQougfcqzWINbHjZCEwXcBVhCYrJ5pZ0zEipgHmypcpqV8qiy4W69I6fHG7MVMY4/s446/Erin%20Osborne-Martin_Wiley%20ALPSP%20blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="446" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE57_yFF8U7yUukrL3NwIpzBsX3qaAVpge0pRMxj-D_SbihOakYVzj78WgMViFTFdUXrMJ0MjBy0izp4xqvpLF5OcYzNIntEF02paEoSo08I8u8TiaBMe37FJcpxPjkQougfcqzWINbHjZCEwXcBVhCYrJ5pZ0zEipgHmypcpqV8qiy4W69I6fHG7MVMY4/w128-h128/Erin%20Osborne-Martin_Wiley%20ALPSP%20blog.jpg" width="128" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bit.ly/45xZijc" target="_blank">Wiley Partner Solutions</a> brings together the best people and technology under one umbrella to make it easier for you to serve scholarly and corporate communities and exceed your business goals in an ever-changing market.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We deliver a broad array of platforms, solutions, and services to help partners curate, collaborate, and accelerate their scholarly outputs while adding value to the wider research ecosystem.</span></p><div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-64711539276826286622023-09-06T15:08:00.000+01:002023-09-06T15:08:39.908+01:00Back to Basics: Resources to Support Rights Management Best Practice<p><span style="font-family: arial;">By Amy Ellis, <a href="https://www.pls.org.uk/" target="_blank">Publishers’ Licensing Services</a>, Platinum sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0psBjlg7kRajSse60xxagxinRGilIj860sN6eEuE0IS1kDWqIc3aFQaBH25O0XL169K4rbOW6q0_cMxIy7JUiblefTYJfwH7hm3JVfBNqquU7Yp8eNcydt4nQqQqNQWXU3848DBS92VXGt_5qxN2hQa1G-Fs79RoPzKzyjpPhqFVtzbXFwDMzrXnWBZJL/s1024/PLS_ALPSP%20conf%20platinum%20sponsor%20logo_social.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0psBjlg7kRajSse60xxagxinRGilIj860sN6eEuE0IS1kDWqIc3aFQaBH25O0XL169K4rbOW6q0_cMxIy7JUiblefTYJfwH7hm3JVfBNqquU7Yp8eNcydt4nQqQqNQWXU3848DBS92VXGt_5qxN2hQa1G-Fs79RoPzKzyjpPhqFVtzbXFwDMzrXnWBZJL/w200-h100/PLS_ALPSP%20conf%20platinum%20sponsor%20logo_social.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">There are so many big challenges in the publishing industry at the moment, from the fast pace at which AI is changing and threatening the landscape to the transition to Open Access publishing models, that it can be easy to forget about the basics. Copyright and licensing underpin the entire publishing industry from scholarly journals to glossy B2C magazines. Good rights management and maintaining accurate records of what rights a publisher holds (and doesn’t hold) can make all the difference to being able to achieve additional revenue or exposure for authors and to being able to pivot to new licensing opportunities (such as the potential to license into AI). </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In March 2023, PLS launched the <a href="https://rightsandlicensing.co.uk/articles/rights-management-in-publishing/" target="_blank">Rights Management in Publishing report</a> which contained the results of a rights management survey of nearly 100 publishers across all publishing sectors. The survey was designed to capture the current issues facing rights professionals in publishing and what support they required to improve the way rights are managed in their organization as well as their licensing initiatives. The survey found that less than a third of the 100 publishers surveyed were very confident about the accuracy of their rights records for their titles whilst just over half said they were quite confident. This shows that while most publishers do feel confident enough in the records of what rights they hold, there are still large gaps where publishers don’t hold accurate files or databases of what rights they have to their titles. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The report also found that 40% of publishers surveyed felt their effectiveness in rights management and licensing is restricted by insufficient resourcing or investment in systems and teams and nearly 30% of publishers felt they were held back by lack of knowledge and training in rights. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Since its launch in 2020, PLS has been working with its Rights Group, formed of rights professionals across the industry, to create free resources to help support publishers where there are large knowledge gaps in contract information or in staff knowledge. The resources created by the PLS Rights Group have been compiled within the <a href="https://rightsandlicensing.co.uk/" target="_blank">Rights and Licensing Hub website</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The following resources in the Rights and Licensing Hub could be considered a primer on good rights management for publishers:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://rightsandlicensing.co.uk/resources/uk-copyright-faq/" target="_blank"><b>Copyright FAQs</b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">PLS created a straightforward Frequently Asked Question section about copyright law and how it applies to publishers and content users in the UK. These FAQs are an essential read for new starters and a bookmarkable page for quick answers to common copyright queries.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://rightsandlicensing.co.uk/resources/essential-guide-to-open-access/" target="_blank">Essential Guide to Open Access</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For publishers just beginning to transition to Open Access or with new staff members coming on board, the Essential Guide to Open Access, created in consultation with Research Consulting, is an introduction to Open Access concepts with links to additional resources to find out more about what Open Access is, Creative Commons licences, Text and Data Mining, and Transformative Agreements.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://pls.thinkific.com/" target="_blank">Rights Management Essentials Training</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">PLS also launched three free training courses in 2021 on rights that were designed not just for rights professionals but also for editorial teams, those in marketing and indeed anyone working in publishing, to provide a foundation in rights management best practice. The courses include an Introduction to Rights Management, Acquiring Rights, and Licensing Rights to Others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Additional Resources</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Further resources available in the Rights and Licensing Hub include other training resources, publisher case studies, and a careers section. With so many challenges in publishing, having good knowledge of what rights you hold in your titles is essential for enabling reuse of your content, whether through new licensing opportunities or partnerships. The resources available within the Rights and Licensing Hub are designed to help publishers improve their rights management in order to maximise exposure and revenues for their content.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Publishers’ Licensing Services is a proud Platinum sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author<br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbUEy3dMH8XZEKWQdvEtDzIWw9BJYF9CaevLhumBGnKXj4dqUSfQHjN-WjSxgauN3pWTVEkii_bRzCIUoMHgsvltUpFNApbQNBQEZZa7CPvfFZ87puWUo8xK92xR7T8uokn1rVP94bHGtSJYGFOEdYEfdMW9-9jOxTvCM7XU8GhRyAsFOJy6iw4MVbsp3X/s500/Amy%20Ellis_PLS_ALPSP%20blog_500x500px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbUEy3dMH8XZEKWQdvEtDzIWw9BJYF9CaevLhumBGnKXj4dqUSfQHjN-WjSxgauN3pWTVEkii_bRzCIUoMHgsvltUpFNApbQNBQEZZa7CPvfFZ87puWUo8xK92xR7T8uokn1rVP94bHGtSJYGFOEdYEfdMW9-9jOxTvCM7XU8GhRyAsFOJy6iw4MVbsp3X/w122-h122/Amy%20Ellis_PLS_ALPSP%20blog_500x500px.jpg" width="122" /></a></div>Amy Ellis is Head of Rights and Permissions at Publishers’ Licensing Services. She is responsible for the PLSclear permissions service, managing the growth of the service and ensuring the system stays in line with industry needs. She is also responsible for PLS’ rights management initiatives including the Rights and Licensing Hub and she provides support for the PLS Rights Management Group. She was included in The Bookseller’s Rising Stars in 2019 and shortlisted for London Book Fair’s Trailblazer Awards in 2020.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><br /><div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-67038151340562119142023-08-25T18:28:00.001+01:002023-08-25T18:28:36.917+01:00Navigating Open Science and Open Access with Intelligent Automation <p>By Sureshkumar Parandhaman, <i>AVP Publishing Solutions and Pre-Sales, <a href="https://integranxt.com/" target="_blank">Integra</a></i></p><p>Silver sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nwQfRUdgG4QmyctkdgZWG4ab2-_S_0kvUSvXh06NoKWa4792uWjfqcgnJdxiWwvheAWAMOHaiR--sqwcoF6ynkNvrXx01P-y40I1rfdU_CsPmRBS_tX5Nvm4rYShr0S7sgWdFV1KR6llzSwjyrsnzP4PipZUTpzuaqu6i6ZitphICYpcxJfkeCbXEr57/s2083/500px_logo-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Integra logo" border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="2083" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nwQfRUdgG4QmyctkdgZWG4ab2-_S_0kvUSvXh06NoKWa4792uWjfqcgnJdxiWwvheAWAMOHaiR--sqwcoF6ynkNvrXx01P-y40I1rfdU_CsPmRBS_tX5Nvm4rYShr0S7sgWdFV1KR6llzSwjyrsnzP4PipZUTpzuaqu6i6ZitphICYpcxJfkeCbXEr57/w200-h84/500px_logo-01.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p>The democratization of research, spurred by the Open Science movement, is rapidly transforming the scholarly publishing landscape. Open Science promotes unhindered access to research findings and articles for the public, and collaborative research, supported by digital tools. It fosters greater transparency in research, creating an environment conducive to the sharing of knowledge and trust through open access.</p><p>The basic tenets of Open Science are open data, open materials, open analysis, pre-registration, and open access. By increasing transparency, Open Science increases the replicability of research, bringing a systemic change to how scientific research is conducted. According to the OECD, <a href="https://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/open-science.htm" target="_blank">Open Science</a>:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Fosters more accurate verification of research results.</li><li>Reduces duplication in “collecting, creating, transferring, and re-using scientific material.”</li><li>Enhances productivity, especially during times of tight budgets.</li><li>Leads to better innovation potential and improved consumer choice.</li><li>Promotes trust in science.</li></ol><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Challenges to Meeting Open Science and Open Access Requirements for Journal Publishers</h3><p>While Open Science has brought multiple benefits, it has also thrown up challenges for scholarly publishers, such as <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000246" target="_blank">increased costs and time</a>, reduced flexibility, incompatibility with existing incentive structure, the <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43538-022-00104-2" target="_blank">emergence of predatory journals</a>, high article processing fees, open access charges, and lack of funding support.</p><p>Given that the majority of authors choose a journal based on its reputation, open-access journals are at a disadvantage due to the <a href="https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1151&context=mjm" target="_blank">misconception that such journals are of lower quality</a>. However, it is important to remember that most open-access journals ensure peer reviews and uphold stringent quality standards for all their published works.</p><p>Another area of concern is that the business models of traditional publishers don't align with the compliance needs of open science and open access.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_msGEBNK8S_eurxEt-YRTeAkh1Ywc-2rr8PeMkC2zFA9yMS16DaRYi16yW9GUQDh99KNwmXD_TbztBBc03lZfRWqnV-Czn4W8I4PNH3TN96hWhmHV2URrNeLmLnu9Oe6lbGu9gr0O_cLeB-0ejzhax1zuw-2A9e7QVqOI1vTZM1NJZ1Qq90uTdexdN1qq/s750/Graphic%20Traditional%20Publishing%20OA%20Publishing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Graphic illustration features of Traditional Publishing and Open Access Publishing" border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="750" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_msGEBNK8S_eurxEt-YRTeAkh1Ywc-2rr8PeMkC2zFA9yMS16DaRYi16yW9GUQDh99KNwmXD_TbztBBc03lZfRWqnV-Czn4W8I4PNH3TN96hWhmHV2URrNeLmLnu9Oe6lbGu9gr0O_cLeB-0ejzhax1zuw-2A9e7QVqOI1vTZM1NJZ1Qq90uTdexdN1qq/w320-h197/Graphic%20Traditional%20Publishing%20OA%20Publishing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Information Source for Image: <a href="http://Researcher.Life" target="_blank">Researcher.Life</a></p><p>To remain competitive against the backdrop of increasing open access, traditional publishers need to look at <a href="http://integranxt.com/contentpilot-publishing-workflow-platform/" target="_blank">leveraging the power of technology</a> to innovate and streamline with publishing process while maintaining integrity, quality, profitability, and compliance.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Intelligent Automation: A Game-Changer</h3><p>Between 2012 and 2022, there has been a major shift from <a href="https://knowledge.figshare.com/article/halfway-to-happiness-what-the-ostp-update-means-in-the-grand-scheme" target="_blank">closed access accounting for 70% of all publishing</a> to the open access model being adopted by 54% of publishers. An AI-powered content creation and publishing platform can bring multiple benefits for journal publishers looking to make the transition, not the least of which is intelligent automation to accelerate workflows.</p><p>Some of the key benefits that a cutting-edge technology suite offers include:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Tracking and monitoring of detailed metadata across different publications with varied funding sources, multiple authors, etc.</li><li>Seamless repository integrations without compromising on open access compliance.</li><li>Capturing open access-related metadata from the inventory.</li><li>Automating language quality checks, compliance with journal guidelines, relevance of research data and findings, etc., for faster TAT.</li><li><a href="https://integranxt.com/blog/how-ai-powered-workflow-automation-benefits-publishing-operations/" target="_blank">Technical diagnosis</a> to identify missing information and references, quickly and more accurately than manual checks. </li><li>Configurable cloud-based style managers to automate XML tagging to format each manuscript to the journal’s style guide.</li><li>Analytics capabilities to support strategic decision-making for scholarly publishers.</li></ul><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Revolutionizing Every Step of the Publishing Cycle</h3><p>Not only does <a href="https://integranxt.com/contentpilot-publishing-workflow-platform/" target="_blank">AI-powered intelligent automation optimize workflows</a> and increase productivity, but also supports DRM by effectively monitoring and detecting fraud and copyright infringement. By transitioning to a cloud-based publishing platform that offers such automation, scholarly publishers can also enhance user experiences for authors, editors, and peer reviewers. This is possible through incredibly user-friendly features that ease moving back and forth between runs at revising and updating the manuscript to meet quality standards.</p><p>In addition, all parties can be assured of transparency, replicability, and data sharing, while complying with open access requirements. Supplementary materials can be seamlessly integrated to add value for the end reader.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Elevating Open Science and Open Access via Automation</h3><p>Automation is the key to creating and publishing accessible, user-friendly Open Access content. It offers multiple tools and functionalities to speed up the content creation, editing, and peer review processes, such as assessing language quality via automated grammar checks and offering recommendations and NLP-based editing tools to facilitate guided editing to enhance quality and speed.</p><p>By automating tasks, manpower and time are freed up, leading to reduced costs and faster time to market. All these benefits are available on <a href="https://integranxt.com/" target="_blank">Integra</a>’s full-cycle authoring and publishing platform, powered by artificial intelligence. Its rich functionalities and intuitive interface can ease your transition to producing Open Access content. <a href="https://integranxt.com/" target="_blank">Integra</a> can transform your workflows and ensure minimal disruptions and data loss while shifting to a cutting-edge technology platform.</p><p>Integra is pleased to be a Silver sponsor of the <a href="https://blog.alpsp.org/MDPI%20is%20a%20proud%20Gold%20sponsor%20of%20the%20ALPSP%20Annual%20Conference%20and%20Awards%202023." target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">About the author</h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ2ns6k_RRnwPNn6ZbyL4gz33trtxvBUCQMoPSlUd6dgUZNaDZUZFAHNdSuvtM0baqGf78O0wlsbof7ceJ_men-bkP_coX5M3ifvo_hXnq95q2WF4I3L999oHslsPBIlSx47GGBKJ1okrcHSN-RbOSu0NtnqO8_mF4OMRJTY0_WTHUnjsGSHfLnz5i2xOD/s413/Suresh.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="photo Suresh Parandhaman" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="413" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ2ns6k_RRnwPNn6ZbyL4gz33trtxvBUCQMoPSlUd6dgUZNaDZUZFAHNdSuvtM0baqGf78O0wlsbof7ceJ_men-bkP_coX5M3ifvo_hXnq95q2WF4I3L999oHslsPBIlSx47GGBKJ1okrcHSN-RbOSu0NtnqO8_mF4OMRJTY0_WTHUnjsGSHfLnz5i2xOD/w200-h200/Suresh.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/suresh-kumar-n-p-b3b2b8a/" target="_blank">Sureshkumar Parandhaman</a> is a publishing professional and AVP publishing solutions at Integra, with a distinguished background in scholarly publishing, particularly in journals and books. With over 20 years of experience, he has excelled as a Product Owner, Product Manager, and Business Analyst in the publishing industry, and has diverse experience spanning Information Services, Publishing, EdTech, Healthcare, and Enterprise software<p></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-17791140413707252022023-08-15T09:26:00.000+01:002023-08-15T09:26:15.486+01:00How Transitioning to Gold Open Access Grew Medicina Journal<p><span style="font-family: arial;">By Dr Carla Aloè, Head of Societies and Acquisition, <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/" target="_blank">MDPI</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><span style="font-family: arial;">Gold sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsTEk9qjs3-DRnU7GvSZwQBN_9ryES5Z5UXiwAyBfUXODI3JNOJcoRtGjVNH9BGYRVKrFy2nA6__TwnpKLh3VZKJjeka8ody373e21NtM703pIP6H8kJm49860v0ViY303i05bR-GV9YV_UmdkvThSq3XgcDmcPbFJEw9YTFn7zm2MVk0fv78b7-oSmCY/s650/medicina-logo.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="650" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsTEk9qjs3-DRnU7GvSZwQBN_9ryES5Z5UXiwAyBfUXODI3JNOJcoRtGjVNH9BGYRVKrFy2nA6__TwnpKLh3VZKJjeka8ody373e21NtM703pIP6H8kJm49860v0ViY303i05bR-GV9YV_UmdkvThSq3XgcDmcPbFJEw9YTFn7zm2MVk0fv78b7-oSmCY/s320/medicina-logo.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">For many societies and institutes, switching their journals to a gold open access model is scary. Some do not want to renounce the high revenue that comes from institutional and consortia subscriptions, others are concerned that authors will not be able to pay the article processing charges (APCs), and others are worried about the quality of the articles in gold open access journals. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">At MDPI, our priority is to listen, understand and address these concerns. In this blog post, I would like to share the story of Medicina, one of the journals we publish on behalf of societies and institutes, transitioning to a gold open access model. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">The history of Medicina</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When we took over Medicina in 2018, the owner of the journal, the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, had many concerns about transitioning to gold open access. The journal had a long history, as it was launched in 1920 and went through different changes due to the political and historical events that affected Lithuania during and after World War II. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The journal was already open access in 2001, embracing the philosophy of making the latest research freely available to everyone without subscription or other paywalled restrictions. In 2014, Medicina was transferred to Elsevier and published in a diamond open access model, supported by an EU grant. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In September 2017, we got in contact with the Editor-in-Chief of Medicina, Prof. Edgaras Stankevičius, for the first time. The EU grant was going to end soon, and the university was interested in knowing more about sustainable alternatives to continue publishing the journal. The introduction of APCs was a concern for the institution, as its members worried that they would deter authors from submitting to the journal.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">Transitioning to gold open access</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A series of meetings took place in the following weeks. In them, we explained how APCs not only allow publishers to cover the editorial and publication costs but also to reinvest in the journal and launch services and initiatives to support researchers. As MDPI does not work with external vendors, we are able to closely control the quality, timing and costs of publication, being able to charge APCs that are highly competitive on the market. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, we offer a range of discounts and memberships to financially support the authors. For example, the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) that counts more than 800 affiliated institutes offers discounts on APCs for associated researchers, and discount vouchers are provided to reviewers that submit comprehensive and timely review reports. Members of societies affiliated with the journal also benefit from discounts. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We were confident that Medicina would develop nicely, strongly believing in its potential after transitioning to gold open access. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In 2018, the contract was signed, a Managing Editor was appointed and a dedicated editorial team was organized to support the journal in all the day-to-day operations. The transition was smooth, and the first issue of Medicina was published that same year by MDPI. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Gold open access leads to growth </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The newly established Medicina editorial team visited the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences in Kaunas, and the Editor-in-Chief and other representatives on the journal travelled to our headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. These personal interactions helped to develop trust in the relationship between the editorial board and MDPI, and to build the foundations for a long-term collaboration. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For the first year and a half, to support the journal in its transition period, we heavily invested in the journal so it could completely waive the APCs. This is always a delicate moment, requiring a lot of collaboration and flexibility not only with the institute and the editorial board of the journal but also with the previous publisher. The authors, readers and other stakeholders of the journal also needed to be informed and supported throughout the process. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In agreement with the university, in 2019, we introduced an APC of 1500 CHF to publish in the journal. The number of publications increased by more than 600% that year, and the good quality of articles published in Medicina led to a substantial increase in its impact factor. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">Medicina in 2023</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Currently, the journal features 25 sections, of which many were established in 2020. The journal is still led by Prof. Stankevičius and is supported by an editorial board of more than 400 experts in all the different areas of medicine. The journal’s visibility on the MDPI website, which received more than 90 million monthly views in 2022, drew a lot of attention to it, attracting more readers and, consequently, more citations. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To align with the expansion of journal services, market conditions, inflation costs and a significant increase in the number of submissions and rejected papers, the APCs increased to 1800 CHF in January 2022, making the journal a good source of income for the university. In 2022, we published 1,840 citable items and received more than 10,000 citations. The journal keeps growing in an exponential and healthy way thanks to it transitioning to gold open access and publishing high-quality work. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">MDPI is a proud Gold sponsor of the <a href="MDPI is a proud Gold sponsor of the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023." target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">About the author </span></b></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kbKlKf-KHx0uQj-4PWKSTMPCoB9UZYzruThdJq2quo3tS13Q3EBWFGYa3QVVkwZRwvZFw1ZvVp3urJnbQwjLDFe45SfklYdCT0wHgbzEBujXwda7joOaWs_nwyLqT7JOAuWsFA_JzSj062L0tHp8KDpqUZq-V2u3_62GJbiHESflhzXIguDHoqlvIeof/s300/Carla%20Alo%C3%A8_ALPSP%20blog.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kbKlKf-KHx0uQj-4PWKSTMPCoB9UZYzruThdJq2quo3tS13Q3EBWFGYa3QVVkwZRwvZFw1ZvVp3urJnbQwjLDFe45SfklYdCT0wHgbzEBujXwda7joOaWs_nwyLqT7JOAuWsFA_JzSj062L0tHp8KDpqUZq-V2u3_62GJbiHESflhzXIguDHoqlvIeof/w136-h136/Carla%20Alo%C3%A8_ALPSP%20blog.jpg" width="136" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">Carla </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Aloè </span><span style="font-family: arial;">joined MDPI in 2020 as an Associate Publisher and Scientific Officer. In 2022, she was promoted to Publisher and took over the lead of the Society Partnerships and Acquisition Team. In January 2023, Carla was appointed as the head of the newly established Society and Acquisition Department. Before joining MDPI, she worked as a Commissioning Editorial Team Lead at Frontiers. Carla holds a PhD in Early Modern Literature from the University of Birmingham, UK.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><p></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-79978355397490317542023-08-08T09:32:00.002+01:002023-08-08T13:52:57.018+01:00The Fall’s Big Topics in Publishing & Technology<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Silverchair</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Silver sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.silverchair.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4MIh-NL43vpenPwaaJ93SEoAsu_WU96xA6PGngQ79b7X7MkKJCy6jr2rqB7hV0V_B6kuJiwvMXlqYMBDdly7QU_PAghKvdvz41gleBgQc0o3nIoWqHdCznuRWBYL7uLT3jqlosIRvrh_z6DYvP_ormWFm9PP_gA97gENTSRmqPJilRpw6wCTd6YbGbHhW/w200-h100/Silverchair_ALPSP%20conference%20silver%20sponsor%20logo_social.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">As we hope you’ve heard, Silverchair is bringing back the in-person version of our popular industry event, </span><a href="https://www.silverchair.com/events/platform-strategies/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Platform Strategies</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> (27 September in Washington, DC). Preparing for this industry-wide event means surfacing the larger themes in scholarly publishing and technology more broadly, to ensure we create a program that engages our best minds on the stickiest challenges and biggest opportunities.</span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are the themes that rose to the top for us:<br /></span></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>AI: </b>Of course. Though funny enough now, when we were planning the agenda back in February, we did wonder whether all the then-ChatGPT-sparked hype would have faded by the Fall. We gambled that it wasn’t going anywhere, and we were right. Artificial intelligence and large language models are sure to disrupt every aspect of scholarly publishing (and the world at large), from how infrastructure and platforms are developed to how content is discovered, used, and licensed. As our keynote speaker, <a href="https://www.nitafarahany.com/" target="_blank">Nita Farahany</a>, puts it: “How do we avoid the dangers of lost privacy and rights while taking advantage of the unprecedented opportunities? With the rapid advance of wearable neurotech and generative AI, we face important ethical questions about privacy, human rights, equity—and even what it means to be human.”<br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Coopetition: Partnership models for independent businesses:</b> Industry consolidation, infrastructure complexity, the challenges of keeping up with new and ever-changing research policies and publishing models, and technological advancements and innovations, has left smaller and mid-sized organizations looking for options. Our industry contains both established and emerging collaboratives responding to these challenges, who are giving voice to the consequences for the scholarly ecosystem if these audiences are lost.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Digital to Data:</b> Open access policies, industry mergers, and data privacy policies have drastically changed the landscape for marketers in publishing and beyond. Today's marketers have had to nimbly pivot from B2B to B2C, from siloed to unified, and from highly produced to highly personalized. Further, AI-powered tools rely on clean and comprehensive data to be most effective, shifting the focus of marketers and scholarly organizations at large.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Syndication: Platforms as a hub, not a destination: </b>We’re seeing a number of pilots, models, and approaches for finding readers off-platform and bringing data, usage, and community efforts back to the version of record.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Integrating digital event workflows, assets, and strategy: </b>With publishers looking to increase member engagement and grow revenue, they’re examining how digital event content is being leveraged: what's working, what's not, and what's coming up next. <br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Ethics in Publishing: Research integrity, trust in science, transparency in data usage: </b>As seen in the themes and sessions in industry meetings like <a href="https://customer.sspnet.org/SSP/ssp/AM23/Home.aspx" target="_blank">SSP </a>and <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/conference" target="_blank">ALPSP </a>this year, research integrity and ethics more broadly are a big focus for publishing organizations. Fortunately, new tools and policies are helping to light a path forward.</span></li></ol><span style="font-family: arial;">What trends would you add to this list? How will this list change in 2024 and beyond? Let us know what you think! (We’ll also be gathering your insights for the 2024 iteration of our <a href="https://www.silverchair.com/news/tech-trends-2023/" target="_blank">Publishing Tech Trends</a> report.) Or, join us at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP conference</a> or for <a href="https://strategies23.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">Platform Strategies</a> in DC and discuss it live! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Silverchair is a proud Silver sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.<br /><b><br /></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKVS8fOqAxIWCAuYHxfy7brNhhr_p3_t7R7jPrryj70ZhNxE6G-jULK5Nkxgcy8tH5KZbdZt6nAud_DhWJwZl1d51CoerZHS6LIUK0SZaD6ljv_ghQA4WWaVjhsToriNEfdzaDwvQMhUEzl8djlyElf7lAW3enuDsuGvKouBXTNm3pQx2UjuXj4-rxtsPA/s537/Stephanie%20Lovegrove%20Hansen_Silverchair_new.jpg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="537" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKVS8fOqAxIWCAuYHxfy7brNhhr_p3_t7R7jPrryj70ZhNxE6G-jULK5Nkxgcy8tH5KZbdZt6nAud_DhWJwZl1d51CoerZHS6LIUK0SZaD6ljv_ghQA4WWaVjhsToriNEfdzaDwvQMhUEzl8djlyElf7lAW3enuDsuGvKouBXTNm3pQx2UjuXj4-rxtsPA/w134-h134/Stephanie%20Lovegrove%20Hansen_Silverchair_new.jpg.jpeg" width="134" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author</b></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen is VP of Marketing at Silverchair. She has worked in the publishing industry for over 15 years, including at the University of Virginia Press and Clarivate Analytics.<br /></span><p></p></div><br /><div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-77097324114421103872023-08-02T13:48:00.004+01:002023-08-02T14:01:31.277+01:00Democratizing Knowledge: The Rise of Open Science and Open Access<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>By </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;">Tony Alves, </b><b style="font-family: arial;">Satam Choudhary and </b><b style="font-family: arial;">Joshua Routh</b><span style="font-family: arial;">, <i>HighWire</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Silver sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.<br /><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.highwirepress.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="512" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKaxOovwAZZfTscMXscu_ebniIoq5gBfNITY6XdWds4yDaSQLFVw34ISDb0nCQe5ANjpkSLM4z6MEd5l2m6MEbCvc-4warWa8Qxj77oI7nDqXBwv91S2j7TYWssWNFhzvOu0JmTVfiw2dMnr7LSwrwvz1modR2rord98LLYpqO-6YT_slaiKUup4jrTVNp/w232-h70/Highwire%20LOGO.png" width="232" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />In an era of rapidly evolving technology and accelerating scientific progress, the promise of a democratized, inclusive, and borderless knowledge universe is becoming tangible, fuelled by two powerful movements - Open Science and Open Access.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At its core, Open Science is the practice of making scientific research transparent and accessible to everyone, including open methodologies and open-source software to open data and public access to published work. Open Access is a key part of Open Science. It is a publishing model that enables scholarly publications to be made freely accessible, eliminating the barrier of paywalls.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These concepts emerged from the desire to democratize science and foster a global research community unbounded by financial and institutional barriers. Since the inception of the <a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/" target="_blank">Budapest Open Access Initiative</a> in 2002, the ultimate vision is one of a scientific ecosystem where knowledge isn't a privilege, but a communal asset. This dynamic promises to stimulate interdisciplinary innovation, enhance public comprehension, and light the way towards a more equitable future for global research.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this blog post we’ll summarize the opportunities and tensions behind these initiatives, and show how Highwire supports them by supporting relevant publishing models on our platform.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Open Data: Unveiling the Power of Shared Knowledge</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Open Data stands for the idea that data collected during research should be freely accessible, enabling anyone to explore, use, and benefit from it.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unveiling the wealth of knowledge embedded in scientific data, not only enables researchers to build upon each other's work but also allows for innovative analyses and interpretations beyond the scope of the original study. The story of the Human Genome Project stands as a testament to the transformative power of Open Data. The initiative – started by our long-term partners at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – made genome sequences publicly available, igniting a surge of advancements in genomics, personalized medicine, and biotechnology.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However, the road to Open Data is not without hurdles. Researchers often grapple with data privacy issues, particularly in sensitive fields like healthcare. The lack of standardized formats and metadata can also lead to disorganized and hard-to-use data sets. Costs associated with maintaining accessible, reliable data also pose a significant challenge leading to innovative solutions such as <a href="https://www.highwirepress.com/partners/dryad/" target="_blank">Dryad</a>, who we partner with to make data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Open Access Books: Pioneering Free Access to Scholarly Literature</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Beyond journal articles, the drive towards freely accessible scholarly literature has led to an upswing in Open Access Books. This shift acknowledges that academic knowledge can be encapsulated in many different forms of content, which was the driving force behind Highwire Hosting being the first platform to support any content type as a first class citizen. Books, for example, can be as dynamic and evolving as research papers and equally deserving of broad dissemination.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For authors, this publishing model presents a new avenue to share their work with a global audience, magnifying their reach and potential impact. Readers, especially those from resource-constrained regions, benefit from unrestricted access to vital scholarly works. For publishers, the journey toward Open Access Books is a delicate balance between championing knowledge dissemination and ensuring financial viability. Innovative models, like <a href="https://knowledgeunlatched.org/ku-crowdfunding/" target="_blank">Knowledge Unlatched</a>'s crowd-funding approach, show promise in navigating these complexities.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Professional Societies & Open Access: Navigating the Currents</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Professional societies play a crucial role in the scientific ecosystem, not just as gatekeepers of quality but also as proponents of community-specific issues, such as advocating for research in under-explored areas and policy changes based on scientific evidence.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However, their smaller scale, as compared to commercial publishers, presents unique challenges, particularly in the context of transitioning to Open Access. Challenges include:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Financial Stability</b>: Transitioning to Open Access implies moving away from a subscription-based revenue model which means devising financially sustainable Open Access models that can support their operations.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Brand Value and Quality</b>: Societies are often recognized for their quality publications. There may be apprehensions that moving to an Open Access model could dilute this perception of quality.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Infrastructure and Expertise</b>: Societies may lack the infrastructure for handling the Open Access publication process, from article processing charge (APC) management to copyright handling.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Equity and Inclusivity</b>: APCs can exclude authors with limited funding. Therefore, Societies must consider innovative models that ensure researchers from all backgrounds can participate.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As an independent organization, <a href="https://www.highwirepress.com/" target="_blank">HighWire </a>allows smaller societies to maintain independence from commercial publishers, while still providing industry-leading publishing tools.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Equitable Open Access Models: The Path to Inclusive Science </b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As the move toward open access accelerates, the conversation is shifting from "why" to "how." Many traditional models of Open Access present limitations in fostering inclusivity, especially among underrepresented or underfunded researchers. This gives rise to a critical question: How can we ensure equitable access not just for readers but also for authors? </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There are several exciting models emerging in response to this need. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"Read-and-Publish"</b> agreements, where institutions pay a single, combined fee covering both the cost of reading and publishing for their researchers.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"Subscribe to Open" </b>model turns the traditional subscription model on its head; instead of subscribing to read, libraries subscribe to make a journal open for everyone.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>"Fee Waivers"</b> offer reductions or waivers of APCs for authors from low-income countries and early-career researchers.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Closing Thoughts: How HighWire can Help</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As we look ahead, the momentum of Open Science and Open Access is undeniable. They promise to shape a more inclusive and accessible world of scientific research. Nonetheless, we must remain conscious of the barriers that hinder the potential of Open Science and Open Access. HighWire Press is ready to help our publishing partners by providing independent publishing solutions that address the entire publishing lifecycle, from online submission and tracking, to multi-format content hosting, to enterprise-wide single sign on capabilities, to licensing management, to usage and impact analytics. There is no one-size-fits-all answer, and HighWire’s modularized solutions can help any size organization economically adapt to the open landscape.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you're interested in learning more about how our modularized solutions can help your organization navigate the open landscape effectively, we invite you to drop us a line at <a href="mailto:info@highwirepress.com">info@highwirepress.com</a>. Let's advance Open Science and Open Access together!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://www.highwirepress.com/" target="_blank">HighWire</a></b> is a proud Silver sponsor of the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/75gKL?RefId=email" target="_blank">ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2023</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">About the authors</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxpZwD5W3-4J0M62-B2jEa2JbI-Pwi841-zpxwr__JrkKYdVHYBoD5Zh2RAvTaQWSNXXUkMD3dcrjjAcB7zbQ3hllnLWLsrXEyAdQUxXd8qWBh9YuYi1liT9hbtbbWVrUdC0vQOFUnqk6xV-nXJdm-a4ccu-R59xWPigkTgt0NzVEOVIxMMvcC8mhPgR4/s300/Tony%20Alves_Highwire_web.jpg.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxpZwD5W3-4J0M62-B2jEa2JbI-Pwi841-zpxwr__JrkKYdVHYBoD5Zh2RAvTaQWSNXXUkMD3dcrjjAcB7zbQ3hllnLWLsrXEyAdQUxXd8qWBh9YuYi1liT9hbtbbWVrUdC0vQOFUnqk6xV-nXJdm-a4ccu-R59xWPigkTgt0NzVEOVIxMMvcC8mhPgR4/w134-h134/Tony%20Alves_Highwire_web.jpg.png" width="134" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tony Alves</b>, <i>Senior Vice-President, Product Management, HighWire</i></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tony Alves has worked in STM publishing since 1990 focusing on digital publishing, online learning products and workflow management. Tony is involved in promoting industry standardization, system-to-system communications protocols and other industry shared services. Tony serves as co-chair of the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach NISO Standing Committee. Tony has organized and presented sessions on industry standards, such as ORCID, CRediT, Funder ID, organizational IDs, JATS and BITS, as well as on interesting editorial services, such as similarity detection, artwork preflight, reference checking and linking, artificial intelligence for manuscript quality assurance, social media, and ethics.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">Satam Choudhary</b><span style="font-family: arial;">, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Senior Product Manager, HighWire</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1RZwCZ-0b9vRPnRDIQ9gwkFCwrphVepvS_xeZMi2XoBGcI9U5cKmuHbGMooHiiArPsMD_HzYeOw0MsBXGiL5eRoWihVVM0eWOeRn9-r4UqyjEvT8OxsFpZF1ozbvaYo12qALod8zdeMPujCHH-3LLqpZGiX1ETraMkFISOqTCRUfo0vLEqYKakj1uglaZ/s300/Satam%20Choudhary_Highwire_web.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1RZwCZ-0b9vRPnRDIQ9gwkFCwrphVepvS_xeZMi2XoBGcI9U5cKmuHbGMooHiiArPsMD_HzYeOw0MsBXGiL5eRoWihVVM0eWOeRn9-r4UqyjEvT8OxsFpZF1ozbvaYo12qALod8zdeMPujCHH-3LLqpZGiX1ETraMkFISOqTCRUfo0vLEqYKakj1uglaZ/w130-h130/Satam%20Choudhary_Highwire_web.png" width="130" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Satam Choudhury is Senior Product Manager for Analytics Products and Subscription Management system at HighWire. With over 10 years of experience in working on ERP and analytics, he likes to help publishers identify research trends underlying vast volumes of published content. He also led the team in building THINK Web, a new subscription management, BI and payment system for publishers. He is excited and worried about forthcoming product releases, and talks about them incessantly to anyone who meets him!</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">Joshua Routh</b><span style="font-family: arial;">, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Director of Hosting Products, HighWire</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-PBx6xdjMvcrjgnR74_dwnCYzWxz3T2nW1656gY-UhbeMVvoys6uWrqrXMWRS7mvYsfN70JujCwOG7XfX_Ivh6bGaHBoSMPOrqQykRFohMf-zNwBw-fg5BfAOsJHl2EZt52ddv5CaCXAyD7TXpgMrUf4qg8UaTyv1pjA8oZwyYJwIX8khHvq88gfjDdI/s300/Joshua%20Routh_Highwire_web.jpg.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-PBx6xdjMvcrjgnR74_dwnCYzWxz3T2nW1656gY-UhbeMVvoys6uWrqrXMWRS7mvYsfN70JujCwOG7XfX_Ivh6bGaHBoSMPOrqQykRFohMf-zNwBw-fg5BfAOsJHl2EZt52ddv5CaCXAyD7TXpgMrUf4qg8UaTyv1pjA8oZwyYJwIX8khHvq88gfjDdI/w132-h132/Joshua%20Routh_Highwire_web.jpg.png" width="132" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">As the Director of Hosting Products, Joshua is responsible for ensuring our publishers' content is stored, enriched and presented effectively. He has worked closely with some of the world's most prestigious STM organisations for 15 years, including leading the team on numerous flagship products for the Cochrane Library, McGraw Hill, Oxford University Press and the British Medical Journal. He has a background in software engineering, a degree in digital design, and a passion for helping research content maximise its value.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-63953526250420209212023-07-25T10:53:00.009+01:002023-07-25T10:56:40.900+01:00Spotlight on: Original Études for the Developing Conductor<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, the judges have selected a shortlist of four for the new <a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" target="_blank">ALPSP Impact Award</a>. We also invite ALPSP members to take part in the judging process before the closing date of 31 July. <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/Awards-Impact-Innovation-2023" target="_blank">Vote online</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/x1AdG?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference</a> on 13 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner on 14 September in Manchester.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">Tell us about your organization</b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Open Education Initiative (OEI) is a unit of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. The University Libraries at Virginia Tech furthers the university's dedication to being a global land-grant institution and serving faculty, students, and societies across the globe. The University Libraries supports the creation and publication of scholarship that is freely accessible to all — regardless of geographical location. The OEI offers a variety of services to improve student learning and faculty teaching materials to make them increasingly: accessible, affordable, of high quality, flexible, engaging, and innovative. We collaborate with faculty, staff, and students to create innovative original and adapted works designed to meet real-world classroom needs and release them under an open license for worldwide public use: </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/grantees " target="_blank">https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/grantees</a></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://vpa.uncg.edu/music" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="781" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik88IissXik3zoBWFnvbVCmjYF3vBRLMhycSMFCOfezJ4YdV01bJBJHtw4x2LDpKu7GdGGOMHe30dgExyPwvuxw-BSbfiTiajnDzZdMxT_BDzuqmKWybYorb2vz9AZgA0wKHT8stQTz9aDu4EELwZh-JcL1qg2uepZLA7Wh3epSIthqzXd8FZ0W8cNyj4M/w267-h88/uncgreensboro_h_3-color.png" width="267" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://vpa.uncg.edu/music" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sopa.vt.edu/future-students/undergraduate-programs/Music.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="751" height="50" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTedzhMtCpBVcV9HLyXUYTEgaEVhZr66NNI_6sj820x6Xk0qVRiwBvDbbTHJTicRwFhFtBqpMXK991Y18gk6uNrKgUvNBGoencggA6jW8t2y26uHM2bARIn20-kdAbKxAkt7XUQy8A7Nt65kkomeF4HG9TthleCRHVtJTK8tTJpEft76Q4POFX5aHOPxO/w265-h50/Horizontal_VT_Full_Color_RGB.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" width="265" /></a></div></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Collaborators for this project are from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Virginia Tech. <br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public, R2: Doctoral University in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA and one of only fifty-seven doctoral institutions recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for both higher research activity and community engagement. The university offers 85 undergraduate degrees in over 125 areas of study, as well as 74 master’s and 32 doctoral programs to approximately 20,000 students. Founded in 1891 as a college for women, the university was one of the three charter institutions of the UNC System. Today, UNC Greensboro is one of the most diverse in the state of North Carolina and a minority-serving institution with an undergraduate population of 51% ethnic minority students and 67% female students.<br /></span></li><li>Virginia Tech (or Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) is a public land-grant, R1: Doctoral University with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Virginia Tech offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to over 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students and is the state’s second-largest public university by enrollment. Through experiential learning, future-focused research, and an inclusive, spirited culture, Virginia Tech strives to accomplish the charge of its motto Ut Prosim (That I May Serve). Virginia Tech’s motto “Ut Prosim,” that I may serve, is a catalyst for the engagement aspects of the global land-grant university. </li></ul></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What is the project/product that you submitted for the Awards?</b></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh61ZKpgoiPZW7XWvrMhaScIo8QeJYXY9kTCgFhzXrSnfyGnAvw7KqIZDdQrRQqUR5O4HnlDuxHVKO4fd4Rpw7GpU_XRvxKU9iTvDRbRkTyNOvxjxucZQtSi4mLPgV_Q17biROfnX9CCPw6CNfRf9kgU7o6JAebcUwyKKBnxS0rynRJbaalamUcO9gAy4JK/s1573/Cover_Original_Etudes.PNG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1573" data-original-width="1212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh61ZKpgoiPZW7XWvrMhaScIo8QeJYXY9kTCgFhzXrSnfyGnAvw7KqIZDdQrRQqUR5O4HnlDuxHVKO4fd4Rpw7GpU_XRvxKU9iTvDRbRkTyNOvxjxucZQtSi4mLPgV_Q17biROfnX9CCPw6CNfRf9kgU7o6JAebcUwyKKBnxS0rynRJbaalamUcO9gAy4JK/w247-h320/Cover_Original_Etudes.PNG" width="247" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.21061/conducting" target="_blank">Original Études for the Developing Conductor</a> is a peer-reviewed, freely-available, and Creative Commons-licensed collection of 25 original compositions designed to enhance contemporary conducting pedagogy by amplifying the voices of composers from historically excluded groups. This resource presents original études beyond what are typically available from the Public Domain. While a print-on-demand option is available, we have worked to create a resource that is freely available and easy to navigate electronically. QR codes and hyperlinks are provided throughout the text to help digital users move around quickly and easily. It is available in multiple formats including digital PDF, print (scores only), and audio. Downloadable PDF versions are available for scores only (160+ pages) and for scores plus parts (700+ pages). </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The collection is currently the only known conducting-specific resource that contains music by a diverse group of living composers, is open-access, and is easily navigable in digital and print formats. Original Études for the Developing Conductor was published on April 27, 2023. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">Tell us a little about how it works and the team behind it</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This collection of 25 original musical scores and parts is designed for use as a supplement for conducting education at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. Études range from thirty seconds to four minutes in length and are original compositions designed to create a unified musical narrative. Each étude has an introductory page that includes a link to a MIDI realization (MP4) of the étude, a list of the parameters of the commission, additional pedagogical opportunities identified by the editors, information about the étude and composer, and a link to the composer’s website. Études were commissioned from a group of 65 invited composers from historically excluded groups, and composed by 25 living composers according to a set of musical characteristics and pedagogical opportunities designated by the editors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our hope is that this book will better prepare conducting students for the musical world they are entering while also reinforcing the existing pedagogical goals of conducting teachers across the United States and beyond. Despite the fact that conducting pedagogy is continually evolving, the examples students encounter in conducting classes tend to remain the same. By meeting the needs of modern students while also celebrating the voices of a diverse cross-section of contemporary composers, we hope this book offers a significant contribution to conducting pedagogy that supports the classroom goals of any conducting teacher regardless of pedagogical approach. As a zero-cost, openly licensed supplemental text featuring the music of many composers who have been historically excluded, we hope this book addresses current pedagogical issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access in a meaningful way. We also hope that the way music is published and navigated within a digital environment will change as a result of this publication.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Extensive efforts have been undertaken to ensure the usability of this resource for classroom use and beyond: <br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We conducted usability testing with students based on classroom scenarios;</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The text is freely available in multiple digital formats including high and low-resolution PDFs of scores and parts, and of scores only;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">An introductory table displays musical characteristics and commissioned elements for each étude;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Layout, design, and navigation of the text were specifically designed for ease of digital download and navigation including in-document links which enable navigation within the overall book through a linked table of contents, navigation to and within individual scores, parts, and back to the score from each part; </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">PDFs may be self-printed and are also available to order as a <a href="https://www.printme1.com/preview/863a16af1" target="_blank">“scores only” spiral-bound softcover print-on-demand version</a>;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Links and QR codes direct digital and print users to MIDI realizations (MP4s) available via a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1cyrlzxSrNXiqvStbuiDQ" target="_blank">YouTube playlist</a>, or to the book’s main landing page;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">In the digital “scores and parts” version, links at the bottom of each cover page enable the reader to “jump to” transposed parts for their instrument, return to the linked table of contents, or visit the main landing page of the resource;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">To enable accessibility for musicians who are blind or have low vision, the text, images, and links in the PDF versions of this text are tagged structurally and include alternative text, which allows for machine readability;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The book was professionally engraved, copyedited, and typeset. MIDI realizations (MP4) were created and are freely available via YouTube;</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The twenty-five composers who accepted commissions for this work and whose names are prominently featured on the book’s cover made this possible.They include: Spencer Arias, David Biendenbender, Susan Botti, Matthew Browne, Trevor Bumgarner, Yi Chen, Brent Michael Davids, Gala Flagello, Max Grafe, Ivette Rodriguez Herryman, Jennifer Jolley, Molly Joyce, Alexis Lamb, Lynnsey Lambrecht,Shuying Li, Ricardo Lorenz, Sally Lamb McCune, Hillary Purrington, Will Rowe, Christopher Sherwood-Gabrielson, Elena Spect, Hilary Tann, and Roger Zare. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The project leadership team includes four people: two music subject matter experts, Dr. Jonathan Caldwell of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Dr. Derek Shapiro at Virginia Tech who served as lead editors for the project, and two members of the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech, Anita Walz, Managing Editor, and Kindred Grey, OER and Graphic Design Specialist, who were deeply involved in project design, peer review, development, and production. Matt Browne and Artem Bank contributed music engraving and MIDI realizations to the project. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntUACyffFX4RO9bqZiXJa8lSiIWhUvumvyydzMclUpWsoFdEb1ZSGPiemA1nuZFCNVyrd24AyfTV00mPtGWWp4ibY3SUyp3K0xrNBhPJLU-7DY-qEXnro8wrcrrGEjITcRp5L696HOnNhed_EDf9J_eFF1J3Hq6zl3wv0fGG-2UL7q9pzaDgrT__zBIL5/s1339/Etudes-digital_navigation.PNG" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="1025" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntUACyffFX4RO9bqZiXJa8lSiIWhUvumvyydzMclUpWsoFdEb1ZSGPiemA1nuZFCNVyrd24AyfTV00mPtGWWp4ibY3SUyp3K0xrNBhPJLU-7DY-qEXnro8wrcrrGEjITcRp5L696HOnNhed_EDf9J_eFF1J3Hq6zl3wv0fGG-2UL7q9pzaDgrT__zBIL5/w231-h302/Etudes-digital_navigation.PNG" width="231" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQOeJbWgfcaMXZk_19Cs0KKy_3SPZF5wvLvusU60G7ob2tmLm2hf9ThcQe2pAfBX7LElJ3lRw_MUa-g7oFvEcmvb_yohp4eXRT1S4uAdNMds1FyH5aDFw82umTTs-71sviu8XL_HCgZyiOhP-TbtrQnv1OLbyYhlwbEVp9QU16mAOukz_bX3Nb7d9Qvyv/s1753/Etudes-navigation-chart.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1753" data-original-width="1213" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQOeJbWgfcaMXZk_19Cs0KKy_3SPZF5wvLvusU60G7ob2tmLm2hf9ThcQe2pAfBX7LElJ3lRw_MUa-g7oFvEcmvb_yohp4eXRT1S4uAdNMds1FyH5aDFw82umTTs-71sviu8XL_HCgZyiOhP-TbtrQnv1OLbyYhlwbEVp9QU16mAOukz_bX3Nb7d9Qvyv/w221-h320/Etudes-navigation-chart.PNG" width="221" /></a></div><b style="font-family: arial;"><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p>In what ways do you think it demonstrates innovation?</b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Original Études for the Developing Conductor demonstrates impact and innovation in multiple ways. </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Open-access music textbook publishing: No-cost online availability under a Creative Commons license is a significant benefit for students who more than ever struggle to afford textbooks and course materials, and as required course for music degrees, conducting is a high-need area for freely-available and openly-licensed course materials. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Centering students as part of project design: The project centers student needs and real-world classroom use by involving students and student-centric planning throughout the project planning process. This has resulted in innovative ways to ensure access, accessibility, relevant design, engagement, and in-document navigation, notably the use of QR codes and links to enable speedy navigation between scores, parts, and the Table of Contents, using a spiral-binding for the print version, and the inclusion of more representative composers than currently available textbooks.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Centering diverse composers and contemporary music: Prior to initiating this project, our review of more than 250 excerpts in five prominent conducting textbooks revealed inclusion of only one woman composer and one person of color. Our text features composers from historically underrepresented groups, provides a short biographical statement, photo, link to the composer’s website, and the composer’s description of their etude. By centering a diversity of composers and contemporary music this work builds awareness of more diverse, living composers, current musical styles, and enhances engagement especially of students from historically marginalized groups.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Prioritizing in-document navigation: Our student reviewers are so excited about the navigation in the book: “I’ve never seen this before. I wish that everyone would do this.” In class students are frequently asked to locate a score within a collection, conduct the score, play their instrument’s part and return to the score. In an analog environment this means page-turns in a 700+ page volume. In a digital environment, this necessitates scrolling or navigating to multiple files on one or more devices. Our publication leverages a linked Table of Contents to quickly navigate to any score, links from scores to each part, links from each part back to the score or Table of Contents, plus links and QR codes for print and digital users to navigate to an MP4 for each piece or to return to the full digital text. We are excited about the effectiveness of this approach for in-class use of this work and what it means for student learning. We also hope that music publishers will catch on and imitate this relevant and innovative approach.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Proof of concept for open-access music textbook publishing. Publishing open access necessitates exploration of different financial models and creates opportunities for change and for entry of new players into the publishing space. We acknowledge the value of composers’ work by paying them in advance rather than relying on royalties and allowing retention of author rights while obtaining consent to release their work under a non-exclusive CC BY NC SA license. We reverted to a “patron pays” funding model and leverage funding carefully by maintaining a lean publishing operation. This project demonstrates that significant, real-world impacts are possible even for a small, focused team. </span></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What are your plans for the future?</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">First, we plan to use the work in the classroom this fall and evaluate our and others’ experiences of teaching and learning with the materials. We have also submitted the project for several conference presentations for which we are waiting to hear the outcome.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Second, conducting instructors and composers are already asking for a Volume 2. As this first volume focuses on intermediate to advanced-level etudes, we plan to focus on introductory-level etudes for the second volume. We hope to expand our scope beyond composers whose primary residence is in the United States.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Third, we are working with accessibility specialists to create an alt-text tagged version of each of the scores and parts to better enable access for learners who are blind or have low-vision.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Fourth, we see significant potential for music textbooks and sheet music publishing entities to innovate in the areas of open access, inclusion, and ease-of-navigation. We are discussing ideas regarding open access music publishing with colleagues, and working to get the word out regarding this proof-of-concept for open access, more inclusive, and navigable music publishing in library publishers and beyond. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We are grateful and honoured to be selected as a finalist for ALPSP's 2023 Impact Award.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author<br /></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEpLWUxUyu7gmttmRB59KiN11Qf7FiNp2kuGs5-VrSEYme1_FL6Ym647voqOiSVkg4TIvBbNydm4AlxzCqz_PAl3gsrw5mkLryKuhK51OyQd2_krXOIAV6EaLxX0vpYwK_al-D2wCUO0po9qVrgc79-JgQLQiBUhpbkTFqGtrAXqkHZXL2631wwCPRWhV-/s500/Anita%20Walz_ALPSP%20blog.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEpLWUxUyu7gmttmRB59KiN11Qf7FiNp2kuGs5-VrSEYme1_FL6Ym647voqOiSVkg4TIvBbNydm4AlxzCqz_PAl3gsrw5mkLryKuhK51OyQd2_krXOIAV6EaLxX0vpYwK_al-D2wCUO0po9qVrgc79-JgQLQiBUhpbkTFqGtrAXqkHZXL2631wwCPRWhV-/w144-h144/Anita%20Walz_ALPSP%20blog.png" width="144" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Anita Walz</b> is Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Open Education, and Scholarly Communication Librarian in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. She received her MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked in university, government, school, and international libraries for over 20 years. She is the founder of the Open Education Initiative at Virginia Tech and executive and managing editor of over 20l open textbooks adapted or created at Virginia Tech, many of which may be found at: <a href="https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/grantees " target="_blank">https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/grantees </a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>More information</b></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.21061/conducting " target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.21061/conducting</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">OEI website: <a href="https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer " target="_blank">https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Department of Music at Virginia Tech: <a href="https://sopa.vt.edu/future-students/undergraduate-programs/Music.html " target="_blank">https://sopa.vt.edu/future-students/undergraduate-programs/Music.html</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">UNCG School of Music: <a href="https://vpa.uncg.edu/music " target="_blank">https://vpa.uncg.edu/music</a></span></li></ul><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-57408022774069299082023-07-24T14:01:00.000+01:002023-07-24T14:01:31.454+01:00Spotlight on: Cassyni Journal Seminar Series<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, the judges have selected a shortlist of four for the <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/innovation-in-publishing" target="_blank">ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023</a>. We also invite ALPSP members to take part in the judging process before the closing date of 31 July. <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/Awards-Impact-Innovation-2023" target="_blank">Vote online</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/x1AdG?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference</a> on 13 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner on 14 September in Manchester.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us about your organization</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Cassyni is a startup launched in 2021 by the founders of Publons, Mendeley and Kopernio (now EndNote Click), we are based in London and have team members in the US and Europe. The platform was originally developed in the midst of the Covid pandemic as a way for researchers to organise, run, publish and preserve research seminars online.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Cassyni’s publisher offering is seeing rapid uptake across all fields of research and has been adopted by both commercial publishers (e.g. Elsevier, Springer Nature and Cambridge University Press) as well as society publishers (e.g. Royal Society, New Phytologist and AIAA). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What is the project/product that you submitted for the Awards? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Cassyni Journal Seminar Series is a platform for publishers to run, organise and publish online seminars in which authors talk about their latest research. It includes a suite of intuitive workflow tools making it easy for editors to convene keynote live events and author-led seminars. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us a little about how it works and the team behind it</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Cassyni team is made up of former researchers who have extensive experience of bringing innovative products to the publisher market that have positively changed scholarly communication. The team passionately believe that research seminars are an important part of the academic lifecycle and are currently an unseen jewel. By growing a connected ecosystem around seminars it will enable a well established medium for communicating research to travel further, faster to a more inclusive global audience. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There are 2 types of seminars in the Cassyni Journal Seminar Series, Keynote seminars and Author-led seminars. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Keynote seminars are live online events presented by authors hand-picked by the journal editors for their outstanding research. The seminars are promoted to the journal’s audience, who can attend the event and subscribe to the series, enabling the publisher to build a community around a topic, discipline or journal. Cassyni Keynote Seminars capture the magic of an in-person seminar, with the added bonus of being able to include a more diverse and geographically dispersed audience. The ‘watch later’ functionality allows researchers in different timezones or those unable to attend live to view the recording and take part in the Q&A asynchronously. All seminar recordings are preserved in a custom branded journal seminar series page on Cassyni. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg7LYtrOTPUI5Y7sfHAHofTTzUxBForYsrw-upsmCYpfoNptXhGHoheHgwQ9yflOhhYjfGmBsYyJB51ZK5GBWMeYdWuhR7cyJDbGGqtqlVWXPq8OHKjTb5HCkaHQt6B98MJlnf_r6mS4aQ2q7P03CLwsS9fwGUJFpt1pdtkaA_3aPQ1qo6sIjeS14Y8QWU/s1600/Series_Cassyni%20ALPSP%20blog.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1418" data-original-width="1600" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg7LYtrOTPUI5Y7sfHAHofTTzUxBForYsrw-upsmCYpfoNptXhGHoheHgwQ9yflOhhYjfGmBsYyJB51ZK5GBWMeYdWuhR7cyJDbGGqtqlVWXPq8OHKjTb5HCkaHQt6B98MJlnf_r6mS4aQ2q7P03CLwsS9fwGUJFpt1pdtkaA_3aPQ1qo6sIjeS14Y8QWU/w320-h285/Series_Cassyni%20ALPSP%20blog.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br />Author-led Seminars are designed to be scalable and require minimal input from journal teams. Selected authors are invited to give a Cassyni seminar as part of the manuscript acceptance process through a light-touch integration with editorial management systems. Authors simply click on the Cassyni link which walks them through the self-serve seminar publishing workflow. Online seminars based on a researcher’s latest publications are a proven route to increased reach and accelerated impact, helping them disseminate their findings to new audiences and boosting research integrity. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>In what ways do you think it demonstrates innovation?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Research seminar series form the centres of communities in which academics across disciplines share and discuss the latest research. However, without dedicated workflow tools and supporting infrastructure journal publishers have not been able to engage researchers participating in these communities in a systematic and scalable way. Increasingly, researchers are seeking out online events and videos as compelling complements to published articles when consuming research. For many researchers a 30 minute seminar can be a more engaging entry point to a new topic than a 30 page manuscript. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Seminar recordings are automatically enhanced using Cassyni’s proprietary AI technology to produce high quality transcripts, extract slides and detect and resolve references to other scholarly works contained in the talk. The enhanced recording which includes automatic hyperlinks to journal content embedded in the video and is then published with a DOI ensuring it is part of the scholarly record. Seminars that are associated with a research article are linked from Cassyni, driving engagement and traffic to the publisher website. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2K1vVkNt6V3tPsORaPcC4B6L2qBeqci_LWUVwW2bi37nkgANwh1fbkcZY6VD8pEs7so-qWkg6B0VhYjCXXx_kB4_jH8aQ4hbSJqD9tH040wIxlsEy_plDLVPxeeaksz7aQZhDuCNdBbu_EDIiu9IxI49V1_UVEvlFoJfScMg8sibARo9_Xj7pAi5b6hMy/s1592/aiplayer_Cassyni%20ALPSP%20blog.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1354" data-original-width="1592" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2K1vVkNt6V3tPsORaPcC4B6L2qBeqci_LWUVwW2bi37nkgANwh1fbkcZY6VD8pEs7so-qWkg6B0VhYjCXXx_kB4_jH8aQ4hbSJqD9tH040wIxlsEy_plDLVPxeeaksz7aQZhDuCNdBbu_EDIiu9IxI49V1_UVEvlFoJfScMg8sibARo9_Xj7pAi5b6hMy/s320/aiplayer_Cassyni%20ALPSP%20blog.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br />Publishers and societies are always looking for new ways to push the boundaries of research and engage their authors and readers with value-add services. By allowing authors to give seminars associated with their publications there is a chance for the community to hear directly from the people behind the papers. With the rise of generative AI and papermills having a seminar published alongside a paper is a valuable tool to boost research integrity and increase trust in the research. <br /><br /><b>What are your plans for the future? </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A major focus for Cassyni is connecting online seminars deeply into the wider scholarly ecosystem as first class research outputs. Cassyni seminars are already issued with a Crossref DOI and so are discoverable wherever Crossref is indexed. There are imminent plans to integrate with a multitude of research tools and discovery platforms so watch this space!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBqTi4vA9_vWtNHEf3f7PRnq37SyKR1Ze140X8JTFM0sdkLgr0Thnxp8jI52UjfTu4Hkb10Skulp3BabyVAuF21ZY__lxapPQipEjKSg4JWvIbZ98BXmW7ltSGSK1NLczWsMdifcqMY7nQqTwWw4p0W-34-oUh4QHesa_0_wozMxwMOi8x7XgANvW07JL/s1440/Ben%20Kaube.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBqTi4vA9_vWtNHEf3f7PRnq37SyKR1Ze140X8JTFM0sdkLgr0Thnxp8jI52UjfTu4Hkb10Skulp3BabyVAuF21ZY__lxapPQipEjKSg4JWvIbZ98BXmW7ltSGSK1NLczWsMdifcqMY7nQqTwWw4p0W-34-oUh4QHesa_0_wozMxwMOi8x7XgANvW07JL/w146-h146/Ben%20Kaube.jpeg" width="146" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Ben Kaube </b></span><span style="font-family: arial;">co-founded Cassyni to help researchers disseminate their work through seminars and video. Prior to Cassyni he founded one-click research access tool Kopernio (now EndNote Click, acquired by Clarivate) and Newsflo (acquired by Elsevier). Ben holds a PhD in physics from Imperial College London and was named a Forbes “30 Under 30” for Science and Healthcare in 2020.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">More information</span></b></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cassyni: <a href="https://cassyni.com/">https://cassyni.com/</a></span></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-77142435499978018032023-07-21T11:00:00.075+01:002023-07-21T11:00:00.127+01:00Spotlight on: Bilingualism from submission to publication from Medwave and Kriyadocs<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">This year, the judges have selected a shortlist of four for the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"> </span><a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/innovation-in-publishing" style="background-color: white; color: #21bb55; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">. We also invite ALPSP members to take part in the judging process before the closing date of 31 July.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"> </span><a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/Awards-Impact-Innovation-2023" style="background-color: white; color: #21bb55; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Vote online</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/x1AdG?RefId=web" style="color: #21bb55; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference</a> on 13 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner on 14 September in Manchester.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us about your organization<br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://www.medwave.cl/" target="_blank">Medwave</a> is a bilingual, open-access, MEDLINE-included medical journal founded by Dr. Vivienne C. Bachelet in 2001. Its mission is to elevate clinical professional standards in the region by facilitating access, overcoming geographical and economic barriers, and improving the quality of scientific </span><span style="color: #444444;">reporting and research.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.medwave.cl/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="1000" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3S5yIQ88wYWmJet05f3n_DDI73RarBTF5hf8wmQ-5OqBMSiHZkSnRjrt3knb9BRMhXB-Q4OxzLOmgdB2WEWMDd9gPBVXkuwZ1Iyk5HXXJEwZz9m9OTo_kWRGkFdv_qE8BROntA22ZdKj6R6m9lQ8PLVDLrMzMOVQLGhEO5YS5VLZ6cJd4tanTHbg6_CWE/w200-h68/Medwave.png" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.kriyadocs.com/" target="_blank">Kriyadocs </a>is an ecosystem for scholarly publishers that offers technology-led solutions and services to streamline publishing workflows from submission to distribution for global academic, professional, and scholarly publishers.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.kriyadocs.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="1000" height="63" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0F4ArgO98eHHOa4OQXlXbiUfWuAi92ufvheq_qRD_i4c_gqf84Pu4bAnZiK9wZPRK25Us6ZT7XtdnOcirPtqDsa9QOY2lUb2nHZClZqo9KPZqbz-qnEQErdA40bDfRByB9JhtPtQ6gv7ysDwJ2LYpzRhDRccykZY3194zUmwLGQevIDE6UIiu8-nlWcyS/w200-h63/Kriyadocs.png" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><b>What is the project/product that you submitted for the Awards?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">As a design partner, Medwave collaborated with Kriyadocs to establish a fully bilingual peer review and production platform capable of handling submissions in both Spanish and English. The platform includes comprehensive Spanish copyediting and English translation stages to ensure consistency throughout the publication process.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This submission is based on the <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1533" target="_blank">Learned Publishing article</a> titled "A technology-based, financially sustainable, quality improvement intervention in a medical journal for bilingualism from submission to publication" by Dr. Vivienne C. Bachelet and Dr. Máximo Rousseau Portalis (Bachelet & Rousseau-Portalis, 2023*).</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us a little about how it works and the team behind it</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">Kriyadocs' online submission system manages peer review in the journal's source language and seamlessly transitions to the copyediting, typesetting, and proof-checking module. A modification was programmed by the Kriyadocs team to handle production processes for both the source language and its translated version.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Salient features of the workflow that enable and enhance the fully bilingual journal publication include:</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">An <b>online submission system</b> that is capable of handling peer review in the journal’s source language.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">A <b>smooth transition from the peer review process to production</b>—including copyediting, typesetting, and proof checking, with an XML-first approach.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The use of <b>AI-based tools</b>, such as DeepL for language translation and Grammarly for content editing, by Medwave editors to produce error-free translations with speed, efficiency, and lower costs.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Fully automated PDF and JATS XML files</b> for publication, as well as deposits to third-party preservation and archiving platforms.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Automated recycling of non-translatable sections</b> reduces inconsistencies between original and translated versions of articles.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Simultaneous publication</b> of both Spanish and English versions of the journal.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">The ACTIVE platform, available as an open source software, generates the fully bilingual website for the journal. The website has been set up such that it transitions seamlessly between the Spanish and English interfaces.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After the implementation of this intervention, the journal was able to offer full bilingualism for manuscripts submitted in Spanish and ensure the simultaneous publication of Spanish and English articles with no delays between versions.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><b>In what ways do you think it demonstrates innovation?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">A bilingual journal enables the dissemination of research to a larger audience while preserving the local language and locally-generated knowledge, as Dr. Bachelet presented at the <a href="https://peerreviewcongress.org/peer-review-congress-2022-program/" target="_blank">Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication</a>. However, this can be a cost- and resource-intensive endeavor.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLCheiUfkM8bi9c2SHl_2h6Pz3RroCOLrTi_6x1oiTCHW6dM3dvZAvRT7Kki3nk4Gv4eXtlmu3rCuKiJX2kzK3sBT-rY2Pkzh4PsW4hfUsERp4E8fQVIjP67JHAwE-rwx4REqvIbWSGkaurfAGzIIxOiDwoCc3ztTxO4FBA1kVx7OVdLFxIComRdf-2v7/s1600/Dr.%20Vivienne%20C.%20Bachelet%20and%20Ravi%20Venkataramani%20at%209th%20Peer%20Review%20Congress.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLCheiUfkM8bi9c2SHl_2h6Pz3RroCOLrTi_6x1oiTCHW6dM3dvZAvRT7Kki3nk4Gv4eXtlmu3rCuKiJX2kzK3sBT-rY2Pkzh4PsW4hfUsERp4E8fQVIjP67JHAwE-rwx4REqvIbWSGkaurfAGzIIxOiDwoCc3ztTxO4FBA1kVx7OVdLFxIComRdf-2v7/w320-h240/Dr.%20Vivienne%20C.%20Bachelet%20and%20Ravi%20Venkataramani%20at%209th%20Peer%20Review%20Congress.png" title="Dr. Vivienne C. Bachelet and Ravi Venkataramani at 9th Peer Review Congress" width="320" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><i><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Vivienne C. Bachelet and Ravi Venkataramani at 9th Peer Review
Congress</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></i></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">This collaboration is significant and innovative because it established a fully bilingual peer review and production platform capable of handling submissions in both Spanish and English. This solution not only empowers authors to submit their articles in their native language but also broadens the pool of potential reviewers by enabling peer review to be conducted in the same language. The platform streamlines the publication process and enables the simultaneous publication of original and translated articles with no compromise in quality.</span></p></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This solution offers numerous advantages to enhance Medwave’s publication process.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">It reduces inconsistencies between the original and translated versions of articles and <b>eases the burden on human translators</b> by automatically recycling non-translatable sections such as metadata, abstracts, keywords, and references.</span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It has also led to <b>increased efficiencies in the publication process</b>, resulting in shorter review rounds, fewer human errors, and full automation of PDF typesetting and XML JATS files for publication, database deposits, and third-party preservation archiving. </span></span></li><li><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 2019, there was a gap of 31 days between the publication of the original Spanish article and its translated version. The bilingual workflow has eliminated the gap and enabled the <b>simultaneous publication of both versions of the article</b>. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">As a result of the streamlined journal publication setup, Medwave has been able to remain <b>financially sustainable</b>.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">By implementing a bilingual journal workflow and successfully addressing the challenges previously faced by the journal, this collaboration supports Medwave’s vision of increasing the dissemination of research to a wider audience. A bilingual journal workflow promotes inclusivity within the scientific community by providing equal access to research for researchers who may not be fluent in English. By enabling researchers and healthcare professionals to access medical research in both English and Spanish, this workflow eliminates language barriers within the scientific community and promotes cross-cultural exchange and understanding. It also encourages greater collaboration between researchers and healthcare professionals from different countries and language backgrounds, fostering diverse perspectives and innovative solutions to medical problems.</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, it can help increase the visibility and impact of research by reaching a larger audience, leading to more citations and recognition within the scientific community.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><b>What are your plans for the future?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">The future possibilities of expanding a bilingual journal workflow are vast and exciting. With the world becoming increasingly interconnected, there is a growing demand for research to be accessible in multiple languages. </span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By expanding a bilingual journal workflow to include more languages, such as Chinese, Arabic, and F<br />rench, researchers are empowered to write in their native language and have their voices heard in the scholarly community. A multilingual journal workflow has the potential to enhance the visibility and impact of research by reaching an even wider audience. This can lead to more citations and recognition within the scientific community, as well as increased funding opportunities for researchers. Furthermore, expanding a bilingual journal workflow can help to promote inclusivity and diversity within the scientific community, as it ensures that researchers from all language backgrounds have access to the same research, leading to greater collaboration and innovation within the scientific community. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The benefits and opportunities of expanding a bilingual journal workflow are immense and hold great promise for the future of research.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">About the authors</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLLyx6qazK6L1aA2sQPdB1hCMBxTCrLxpmZgWP08r7mu46K4NxnL_1D0OW4RW6E7ESoVESPuOil51y1xdX6zp5Poh7_MUSuNxMVa9h7BuF9wG57UMapQAtQ2spAcv1RQsKx4KScLHDQ3CUYueroN0D6diUvPOTxDqyUeEIQX76_jkZVMm5U-PaNyjIlmI/s864/Ravi%20Venkataramani.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="864" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLLyx6qazK6L1aA2sQPdB1hCMBxTCrLxpmZgWP08r7mu46K4NxnL_1D0OW4RW6E7ESoVESPuOil51y1xdX6zp5Poh7_MUSuNxMVa9h7BuF9wG57UMapQAtQ2spAcv1RQsKx4KScLHDQ3CUYueroN0D6diUvPOTxDqyUeEIQX76_jkZVMm5U-PaNyjIlmI/w119-h119/Ravi%20Venkataramani.png" width="119" /></a></div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-venkataramani/ " target="_blank"><b>Ravi Venkataramani</b></a>, <i>CEO of Kriyadocs,</i> drives collaborative partnerships to enhance human potential through technology. Guided by his visionary leadership, Kriyadocs aims to revolutionize scholarly publishing with innovative solutions for researchers.<br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm7znEcuNrUhV-xUpazA9XazgGzGTe3a-a3VC9_P0D09Ck2nt4TBH7AwMbRzfBcwLCo12Z9yS3ml-YxFP7ebKh9YSL1TwQ7foyTT6t4tq-9ECG59qQuXg-XK4yIoE5vgmXpNuRn8epT39-AIYUuby9C52eNeH_4Zt3bIHJyBRtLH9gurEbbbK4JLa8UUIM/s864/Dr.%20Vivienne%20C.%20Bachelet.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="864" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm7znEcuNrUhV-xUpazA9XazgGzGTe3a-a3VC9_P0D09Ck2nt4TBH7AwMbRzfBcwLCo12Z9yS3ml-YxFP7ebKh9YSL1TwQ7foyTT6t4tq-9ECG59qQuXg-XK4yIoE5vgmXpNuRn8epT39-AIYUuby9C52eNeH_4Zt3bIHJyBRtLH9gurEbbbK4JLa8UUIM/w121-h121/Dr.%20Vivienne%20C.%20Bachelet.png" width="121" /></a></div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/V_Bachelet" target="_blank"><b>Dr. Vivienne C. Bachelet</b></a>, <i>Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Medwave</i>, launched the bilingual biomedical journal to bridge the education gap for Spanish-speaking clinicians, researchers, and academics in Chile. She is also an Associate Professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) and active member of prestigious medical organizations.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">More information</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">Medwave website: <a href="https://www.medwave.cl/">https://www.medwave.cl/</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">Kriyadocs website: <a href="https://www.kriyadocs.com/">https://www.kriyadocs.com/</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Kriyadocs LinkedIn: <a href="https://in.linkedin.com/company/kriyadocs">https://in.linkedin.com/company/kriyadocs</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Kriyadocs Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Kriyadocs" target="_blank">@Kriyadocs</a> </span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Medwave Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Medwave_cl" target="_blank">@Medwave_cl</a> </span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #444444;">Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication poster, “A Technology-Based, Quality Improvement Intervention to Ensure Accuracy and Integrity of the Scholarly Record of Articles Published Simultaneously in 2 Languages” by Dr. Vivienne C. Bachelet, Amaya Goyenechea, Máximo Rousseau-Portalis </span><a href="https://peerreviewcongress.org/peer-review-congress-2022-program/ " target="_blank">https://peerreviewcongress.org/peer-review-congress-2022-program/</a><span style="color: #444444;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">References</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial;">*Bachelet, V., & Rousseau-Portalis, M. (2023). A technology-based, financially sustainable, quality improvement intervention in a medical journal for bilingualism from submission to publication. Learned Publishing, 36(1), 73-80. 10.1002/leap.1533</span></p><div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-40397737406312527372023-07-21T09:30:00.000+01:002023-07-21T09:30:00.130+01:00Spotlight on: Africa Commons<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, the judges have selected a shortlist of four for the new <a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" target="_blank">ALPSP Impact Award</a>. We also invite ALPSP members to take part in the judging process before the closing date of 31 July. <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/Awards-Impact-Innovation-2023" target="_blank">Vote online</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/x1AdG?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference</a> on 13 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner on 14 September in Manchester.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Tell us about your organization</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">At Coherent Digital, we create online collections of critical research and learning materials. We contextualize them and provide tools and supporting materials so that they can be used for learning. We add content that's uncatalogued, undiscoverable, uncitable, prone to link rot, and likely to disappear. Where content is in danger of being lost forever, we make sure that it's stabilized, findable, and preserved in a permanent home.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We work with leading authors, publishers, nonprofits, libraries, and archives to amplify their voices—and help them remain sustainable through royalties from licensing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our award-winning Commons services make this possible, using machine indexing, AI, and manual techniques to catalog and enrich content at speed and at a low cost. Faculty can upload links or content, which becomes searchable and available within minutes. Over time, we enrich the content and build usage with new features, new links, and more context.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">What is the project/product that you submitted for the Awards?</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We submitted the project </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Africa Commons: History and Culture</i><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGz6CsHihjVDWz5cSHRg_tSSXU3ULtofw3p022DrjLC3jaPfcS8iLQGD4bGzx6XblhOVo1_YSqPNOdsryz_M01RCHmwOWhziSQh6CRSfKGB-T91mRzhzZ4CSy-HMx2hek2WBzzPDU6Vo5qMZMJwK8VWCSxEEPBU-322_nh84kIB-I2G9EClCeR-xBf_Z3x/s302/Africa%20Commons_pic%201.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="234" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGz6CsHihjVDWz5cSHRg_tSSXU3ULtofw3p022DrjLC3jaPfcS8iLQGD4bGzx6XblhOVo1_YSqPNOdsryz_M01RCHmwOWhziSQh6CRSfKGB-T91mRzhzZ4CSy-HMx2hek2WBzzPDU6Vo5qMZMJwK8VWCSxEEPBU-322_nh84kIB-I2G9EClCeR-xBf_Z3x/w182-h235/Africa%20Commons_pic%201.png" width="182" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQQGzCgvhBfAS8UqEESbQhjShLqfyOcXQGFDB4yRH__wAOUW2yc6wDp7U2D0Y8hwhb-Mkt3C2IyCnBSTHnLyxpIHCIRf01nnQ0zgfRsVmZHksBuDnn5abKhtnwQIjl8Fz8dmIENPXK3rdgwdIc4mF28XSzZG7In9xbfIWb0mFce1rteme4ehthuCA1p5f/s567/Africa%20Commons_pic%202.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="567" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQQGzCgvhBfAS8UqEESbQhjShLqfyOcXQGFDB4yRH__wAOUW2yc6wDp7U2D0Y8hwhb-Mkt3C2IyCnBSTHnLyxpIHCIRf01nnQ0zgfRsVmZHksBuDnn5abKhtnwQIjl8Fz8dmIENPXK3rdgwdIc4mF28XSzZG7In9xbfIWb0mFce1rteme4ehthuCA1p5f/w475-h246/Africa%20Commons_pic%202.png" width="475" /></a></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us a little about how it works and the team behind it</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Africa Commons</i>: History and Culture is a collaborative project to preserve, digitize, and discover African cultural materials. It’s the largest index of African archives in the world. Users can cross-search more than 600 organizations, 4,300 collections, and nearly 450,000 documents in one, uniform site. With permission, we maintain copies of sites we index, so that if an item disappears, we’re able to provide a backup. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Over the last two years, we have worked with a six-person Africa Commons Board of Advisors, made up of a distinguished group of African librarians from Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa. They have helped tremendously in guiding this project and keeping it relevant to Africa. They are:<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Buhle Mbambo-Thata, (Board Chair), University Librarian, University of Lesotho <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Stephen Akintunde, Professor, University of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Elisha Rufaro Chiware, Library Director, Cape Peninsula University of Technology <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Perpetua S. Dadzie, Associate Professor, University of Ghana <br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Tandi Lwoga, Professor and Deputy Rector, College of Business Education, Tanzania<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Ms. Blessing Mawire, Senior Consultant and Director, Integra Professional Services</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">To provide some history on this project, we started with this challenge:<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Africa is home to approximately 17% of the world's population. Yet, research shows that African knowledge is severely underrepresented in digital spaces—making up only 4% of the world's digital knowledge.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">African archives and their collections are hard to find and access. Finding aids are scarce, and few items are digitized. That puts the materials at risk.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Outside of Africa, such materials are scattered across thousands of collections with different indexing and user interfaces. They're hard to find and difficult to search; they can't easily be deployed for learning and research.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial;">To help assist with this challenge: <br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">We select and index high-quality materials from openly available collections across the world and provide a single powerful search that then links users back to the original sites. To date, we have indexed nearly 450,000 items, 600 organizations, and over 4,000 collections. Items include books, magazines, newspapers, historical journals, government documents, film, posters, manuscripts, letters, diaries, ephemera, photographs, art, music, videos, and oral histories. </span></li><li>Where rights permit, we make copies of digital artifacts so that items at risk of disappearing through lack of funds or organizational changes are preserved and safe.</li><li>We also encourage users to contribute relevant links (if they don't hold copyright) and files (if they do hold copyright). Materials are published for the Africa Commons community minutes after submission.</li></ul></span><br style="font-family: arial;" /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmwqj6s-1rYRlHsmjonk_LEpNX_Eje6EotoV8ORC2ULppn4fC8_Y4QEGU0HPspW3x-6D3i8kIK8_5LkA_VkTTtha4OXeby-dqrZzMsKLwRRcXC1BIwUKNkN2pXJVsU6C678D2786OYTw9im2VAgXF8NWHsaiLGxzKxdFFt5DZat8bfoJlOGuBFASaqM95/s946/Africa%20Commons_pic%203.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="946" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmwqj6s-1rYRlHsmjonk_LEpNX_Eje6EotoV8ORC2ULppn4fC8_Y4QEGU0HPspW3x-6D3i8kIK8_5LkA_VkTTtha4OXeby-dqrZzMsKLwRRcXC1BIwUKNkN2pXJVsU6C678D2786OYTw9im2VAgXF8NWHsaiLGxzKxdFFt5DZat8bfoJlOGuBFASaqM95/w537-h201/Africa%20Commons_pic%203.png" width="537" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">I</span><span style="font-family: arial;">n what ways do you think it demonstrates impact?</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Africa Commons: History and Culture </i>demonstrates impact by helping to make African content more widely available and accessible. Free access is provided to all institutions in Africa as well as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Institutions (outside of Africa) that subscribe or purchase the database directly support future digitization projects in Africa, with 10% of sales go directly toward working with African archives to select, digitize, and make rare collections accessible.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Since its launch in March of this year, 140 institutions worldwide have been granted either free or paid access. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What are your plans for the future?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Africa Commons: History and Culture </i>is a continually growing database. With the help of our Board of Advisors, as well as the academic community, we will continue to index digitized African content and work with African libraries to help digitize rare archival materials. We will continue to engage with the community of scholars who are using Africa Commons to solicit feedback and increase usage of the database.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Also, three additional digitization projects are already underway: <i>Black South African Magazines, Southern African Films and Documentaries, and Eastern African Magazines</i>, Newspapers, and Films. These three collections are in various stages, and we look forward to completing them in 2023.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilujihIhKXpcHfmS47cdZBqYAJiBUZ-r1_-Nj7RCkh2kApiDn9mcm7dwMaOYROimLsaYeQRiHiscAB61bghxbepLfEeufe5MapjU1KgPCEGdMPMeED4NDkThX7FqqGKG3ruDKqg9vdcIYn8HSquB2e-Xs6G2CJg02wk_e8am6MQ5BU2PPqKoo37FzU-_j0/s200/Elizabeth%20Robey.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilujihIhKXpcHfmS47cdZBqYAJiBUZ-r1_-Nj7RCkh2kApiDn9mcm7dwMaOYROimLsaYeQRiHiscAB61bghxbepLfEeufe5MapjU1KgPCEGdMPMeED4NDkThX7FqqGKG3ruDKqg9vdcIYn8HSquB2e-Xs6G2CJg02wk_e8am6MQ5BU2PPqKoo37FzU-_j0/w144-h144/Elizabeth%20Robey.png" width="144" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the authors</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Elizabeth Robey</b>, <i>Publisher, Coherent Digital<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Elizabeth has as worked in academic publishing since 2000, most recently for Alexander Street and ProQuest. She is the editor of many recognized databases, including Mindscape Commons (co-winner of the 2021 ALPSP Innovation Award).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRfzjNa9CGIMdC-c6KxSAO_ZbVzGVRhpvOSfYHygQPWUWEARZagGxA40DDVYDf6dD36xu7qt59By1zIuA55XQqbZFZ4AaKWx_BH-TktqOfeAgPZMjneYI6nqUPwxpVO8sdSUrL7aL5nVtCh_sMCs5ApbosdsyjnEEn7Ukd6imzPyDRuHs2oQqThkQ9rPv/s2393/Pete%20Ciuffetti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2393" data-original-width="1898" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRfzjNa9CGIMdC-c6KxSAO_ZbVzGVRhpvOSfYHygQPWUWEARZagGxA40DDVYDf6dD36xu7qt59By1zIuA55XQqbZFZ4AaKWx_BH-TktqOfeAgPZMjneYI6nqUPwxpVO8sdSUrL7aL5nVtCh_sMCs5ApbosdsyjnEEn7Ukd6imzPyDRuHs2oQqThkQ9rPv/w127-h160/Pete%20Ciuffetti.jpg" width="127" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Pete Ciuffetti</b>, <i>Chief Technology Officer, Coherent Digital</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">In a career spanning more than 35 years, Pete has held senior technical positions at seven different information providers, most of them start-ups or early-stage companies. He speaks at industry events on the use of machine learning in electronic publishing and advocates for accessibility in multimedia. </span><p></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><br />More information</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Company website: <a href="https://coherentdigital.net/" target="_blank">coherentdigital.net</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Project website: <a href="https://africacommons.net/" target="_blank">africacommons.net </a><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/coherentdigital/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/coherentdigital/</a></span></p></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-36635508536000665942023-07-20T11:00:00.003+01:002023-07-20T11:00:00.139+01:00Spotlight on: eLife's new publishing model <p><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, the judges have selected a shortlist of four for the new <a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" target="_blank">ALPSP Impact Award</a>. We also invite ALPSP members to take part in the judging process before the closing date of 31 July. <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/Awards-Impact-Innovation-2023" target="_blank">Vote online</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/x1AdG?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference</a> on 13 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner on 14 September in Manchester.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us about your organization</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">eLife is an independent nonprofit inspired by research funders and led by scientists. Since our inception in 2011, our mission has been to accelerate research through publishing, technology and culture reform. To support this goal in part, we review and publish preprints in the life sciences and medicine, and are committed to improving peer review to better convey the assessments made by editors and reviewers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What is the project/product that you have submitted for the Awards?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In January this year, we launched <a href="https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/741dbe4d/elife-s-new-model-open-for-submissions" target="_blank">our new model of scientific publishing</a> that ends binary accept/reject decisions after peer review and focuses instead on providing high-quality public reviews and assessments. The output is a <a href="https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints" target="_blank">Reviewed Preprint</a>, a new form of journal article that presents the research findings alongside public peer reviews, an <a href="https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/db24dd46/elife-s-new-model-what-is-an-elife-assessment" target="_blank">eLife assessment</a> – which clearly communicates the strengths and weaknesses of a paper at a glance – and a response from the authors, if available. This new process has been designed to provide a more transparent, faster and fairer way to publish research.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us a little about how it works and the team behind it</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In our new model, all papers that are invited for peer review go through eLife’s usual consultative review process, led by experts in the respective field/s. The authors then receive the eLife assessment, public reviews, and confidential recommendations from the reviewers on how to improve their paper and are given the chance to provide a response. When the authors are ready, the Reviewed Preprint is posted on the eLife website, alongside the eLife assessment, public reviews and their response. They also receive a fully citable DOI link, which they can use in their funding, grant and job applications. Reviewed Preprints provide certainty of outcome to authors. They are able to include a response to the assessment and reviews with the Reviewed Preprint, and are entirely in control of what to do next; whether that’s to revise and resubmit their work, or declare the Reviewed Preprint as the final Version of Record, which is then indexed by PubMed. If they choose to revise, which can be done as many times as they wish to address concerns raised by the reviewers, the revised version is published on our website with an updated assessment and reviews. When they consider their work finished, and declare a final Version of Record, this is akin to a traditional journal article and meets the requirements outlined by funding organisations and research institutes. They can also choose to submit their Reviewed Preprint to another journal if they wish to do so. Effectively, in this new process, eLife is handing power over the publishing process to authors. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This model has been developed over the last couple of years in collaboration with all teams at eLife. We have worked closely with our board of editors and reviewers to design and implement the system, including the controlled vocabulary used in the eLife assessments. This vocabulary has been carefully crafted so that the editors’ and reviewers’ thoughts on the merits of a paper are clearly communicated in a consistent manner for the benefit of readers. Behind the scenes, our technology teams have worked to develop a new software platform for the display and hosting of Reviewed Preprints, so that they can be updated on the same webpage for each revision, with the same umbrella DOI and links back to previous versions of the work for ease of access. The model is a truly organisation-wide effort built on input from eLife’s executive staff, editorial board, early-career advisors and many other key stakeholders.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>In what ways do you think it demonstrates innovation? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The current scientific publishing system has seen very little innovation since its inception. It can be slow and frustrating for authors, with seemingly endless rounds of review, resubmission and rejections. It is also wasteful, with academics spending time on providing peer reviews and valuable insights that are lost when a paper is rejected. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for scientists to communicate their findings more quickly, leading to a significant jump in the number of papers published on preprint servers. Our approach to publishing combines the immediacy of preprints with the scrutiny of expert peer review. An eLife Reviewed Preprint can be online within just a few weeks of the authors receiving the reviews, speeding up the process for the benefit of scientists at all stages of their careers. Additionally, displaying public reviews and an eLife assessment alongside the Reviewed Preprints helps readers to assess the research based on its own merits, rather than judging the work simply on where it is published. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What are your plans for the future?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">eLife has always supported open science practices, including preprints, for increasing access to and transparency of research. Our hope is that Reviewed Preprints one day become the norm in science and that many diverse groups of authors are able to participate in and benefit from the process. To this end, we will continue to engage with the global science community, including researchers, funders, publishers and others, about the model. We hope that many other publishers will implement a flavour of the new model for themselves, bringing the benefits of Reviewed Preprints to even wider communities of authors and readers around the world.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author<br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcoScq1w2CfnPRW_Rm_rn7-2yEojeWqq0HOpEIkDzwliBitQsupud152scbObK--KVEunlSK4aa3csIwUeJ7uQu7TMgOcFRn1IQHrYuiR5gLMZi33CWvLkRm6rlFnVtsMLAlqd3tvxjhJJkErvIJVc4zNM2I4NoBu3aDAvISA6n8dWePteMES1uvr3dH2Q/s8256/Damian%20Pattinson.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5504" data-original-width="8256" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcoScq1w2CfnPRW_Rm_rn7-2yEojeWqq0HOpEIkDzwliBitQsupud152scbObK--KVEunlSK4aa3csIwUeJ7uQu7TMgOcFRn1IQHrYuiR5gLMZi33CWvLkRm6rlFnVtsMLAlqd3tvxjhJJkErvIJVc4zNM2I4NoBu3aDAvISA6n8dWePteMES1uvr3dH2Q/w200-h133/Damian%20Pattinson.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Damian Pattinson is Executive Director at eLife. He started
his publishing career at the BMJ, before joining PLOS ONE and later Research
Square, where he launched the Research Square preprint server. He holds a PhD
in Neuroscience from University College London.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>More information</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Website: <a href="https://elifesciences.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://elifesciences.org/</span></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">View all eLife Reviewed Preprints: <a href="https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/eLife"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://twitter.com/eLife</span></a></span> <o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-88982185286176177152023-07-19T11:00:00.005+01:002023-07-19T11:00:00.138+01:00Spotlight on: Schol-AR<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, the judges have selected a shortlist of four for the <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/innovation-in-publishing" target="_blank">ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023</a>. We also invite ALPSP members to take part in the judging process before the closing date of 31 July. <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/Awards-Impact-Innovation-2023" target="_blank">Vote online</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/x1AdG?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference</a> on 13 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner on 14 September in Manchester.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us about your organization</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ardist Inc. is a California-based startup dedicated to enhancing the distribution of scientific data. Our team comprises talented individuals focused on providing technological tools to support the next generation of scientific communication for publishers, authors, and readers. Founded in 2019, Ardist received the University of Southern California Stevens Technology Commercialization Award in 2021 for our academic-rooted developments. In 2022, our first paper on the Schol-AR project was published in Nature Scientific Data (View Augmented at <a href="https://www.Schol-AR.io/publications/ard2022">https://www.Schol-AR.io/publications/ard2022</a>). As of 2023, we have been fully integrated into numerous journals, publishers, and international conference venues.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What is the project/product that you submitted for the Awards?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Schol-AR transforms standard scientific PDF articles into fully digital entities, enabling the inclusion of interactive digital media and scientific data directly into manuscripts. Schol-AR is designed specifically to provide full digital integration in a manner that benefits the <b>publishers</b>, <b>authors</b>, and <b>readers </b>of the research community. An introductory video can be seen at <a href="https://www.Schol-AR.io/demo/">https://www.Schol-AR.io/demo/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Readers </b>can use Schol-AR to view any scientific data associated with an article, poster, or other communication via simple “point to view” mobile access or “click to open” browser access, which opens both an article and its data simultaneously. With Schol-AR readers don’t need to find URL links, gain access to databases, or install software to view specific types of data. Instead, we provide data intuitively and immediately, through the preferred medium of the reader. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQYIa3WNReeLTZQR2muCuP8_Ml4mk4LTW_dySWyddp0zFXJv6wrlZ4EgWgV8UKUKUkhisTTeBLx7I5J8F3pFpm3kXDyF8cu3_eaLNOWDX6AG8Op4VZLjZqo7qJh8pHMvR9AWCPfmy-XyqftbP7nUH38D4Zoo_YCwUxHG4PCnLWtn_mCyB3lYWnKYS0P-N/s1380/Picture1%20View%20augmentations.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1380" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQYIa3WNReeLTZQR2muCuP8_Ml4mk4LTW_dySWyddp0zFXJv6wrlZ4EgWgV8UKUKUkhisTTeBLx7I5J8F3pFpm3kXDyF8cu3_eaLNOWDX6AG8Op4VZLjZqo7qJh8pHMvR9AWCPfmy-XyqftbP7nUH38D4Zoo_YCwUxHG4PCnLWtn_mCyB3lYWnKYS0P-N/s320/Picture1%20View%20augmentations.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p><b>Authors </b>can quickly and easily augment data and digital media into their publications through an accessible web interface at <a href="http://www.Schol-AR.io">www.Schol-AR.io</a>. Creating augmentations does not require any technical writing like XML, programming knowledge, or any other technical capabilities. Instead, authors simply upload the figures they would like to augment, and the data they would like to augment them with. Once done, authors immediately receive a QR code that when included in their document converts it into a fully digital augmented paper. The augmentation creation process is designed to take less than five minutes and allow authors to continue writing standard PDFs with the tools they are accustomed to. A demonstration of the process can be seen at <a href="https://www.Schol-AR.io/intro/">https://www.Schol-AR.io/intro/</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAScBZ68xBjAX_ziF7uzmDG2N8D1_FcMsR84h45Nhw0Rip6JzPla0fBmUkoqp2r0VueWngVW0fUbwWTJzQjlnyYgQKMj_pM4g5os1Ts9LkkdQM2XIovZDP5-J-La5AjVTN-FVVXppcYsXM1GpCqmJbuil-D2ajDNCYyWbAU1i9ebjrEChL3h21rmkt0yAu/s1057/Picture2%20Create%20augmentations.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="1057" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAScBZ68xBjAX_ziF7uzmDG2N8D1_FcMsR84h45Nhw0Rip6JzPla0fBmUkoqp2r0VueWngVW0fUbwWTJzQjlnyYgQKMj_pM4g5os1Ts9LkkdQM2XIovZDP5-J-La5AjVTN-FVVXppcYsXM1GpCqmJbuil-D2ajDNCYyWbAU1i9ebjrEChL3h21rmkt0yAu/s320/Picture2%20Create%20augmentations.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Publishers </b>can integrate Schol-AR with no technical requirements whatsoever, entirely averting the costly and risky technical overhauls otherwise needed to provide their readers and authors modern digital capabilities. Simply stated, if a publisher can distribute a PDF, then all Schol-AR’s capabilities are already fully available to them. This design spares publishers the time and effort necessary to develop, deploy, and maintain complex digital systems as well as providing technical support for authors who utilize those systems. Instead, publishers receive fully digital-inclusive augmented articles from the first stage of the submission process. Schol-AR augmented articles also streamline the editorial process, as the augmentations are seamlessly accessible to editors and peer reviewers throughout submission, just as they are to all readers after full publication.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us a little about how it works and the team behind it</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Schol-AR was developed by the Ardist team to enhance scientific communication through fully accessible digital integration. Our system utilizes augmented reality (AR) and computer vision (CV) technologies to seamlessly layer data onto figures for easy viewing. Instead of attaching data to specific submission systems, we directly attach it to the figures, making the data viewable wherever the images are seen. The framework supporting these capabilities encompasses technologies across iOS, Android, webGL, web server, and cloud computing. Despite the complexity of Schol-AR's infrastructure, the resulting product offers simple and intuitive access for both readers and authors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>In what ways do you think it demonstrates innovation? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Schol-AR provides an entire digital overhaul to the journal article in a way that is seamlessly integrated into the existing publishing system. Instead of attempting to replace the PDF with a fully digital standard, we augment the PDF with the simple addition of a QR code. This approach removes the considerable barrier of requiring every publisher to implement a new technology into their systems in order to provide digitally inclusive documents, ultimately enabling immediate global accessibility across all journals everywhere. This does not only benefit publishers, but also authors who no longer need to consider if a particular submission system will accommodate their specific form of data. Once augmented through Schol-AR, a document can be submitted anywhere and data will automatically accompany it. Additionally, Schol-AR provides dramatically improved accessibility to readers in both digital accessed and printed articles, facilitating intuitive data inclusion across mediums. Lastly, Schol-AR is broadly supportive of multiple discipline-spanning media formats including interactive 3D models, image stacks, videos, and volumetric data. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What are your plans for the future?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Schol-AR project has been implemented across numerous journals, publishers, and conference venues to improve the data accessibility of journal articles and posters. However, the project is still new, and we have many plans to expand both the general adoption of Schol-AR as well as the services we provide. For example, while augmentations can currently be automatically created from numerous types of media, we plan to expand support across a much wider range of data formats and associated visualization styles. Further, our digital architecture is well suited to provide additional capabilities, such as communication between authors and readers and access to numerous additional article-related digital services. This project is just getting started, and we are eager to continue advancing digital scholarly communication with Schol-AR. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the author</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6SbQ3Pw7EzOQKbfUeA3__nM-OSzSmU7teYkOmdHOFlxWG1UV8Nd89TGGPV0D1-92XRk1NOp88W4p8xRon5qsoNhdORvBO6_bD4rMJhQIC2Bh5G99qBlnR-48DVV7pFf-sSTrZys7JguiYG7m6PirQa7_8zMdSPYVSLtEVArRBflCNc2eEiyM7yeBOSza/s300/Tyler%20Ard_300x300px-ALPSPWL012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6SbQ3Pw7EzOQKbfUeA3__nM-OSzSmU7teYkOmdHOFlxWG1UV8Nd89TGGPV0D1-92XRk1NOp88W4p8xRon5qsoNhdORvBO6_bD4rMJhQIC2Bh5G99qBlnR-48DVV7pFf-sSTrZys7JguiYG7m6PirQa7_8zMdSPYVSLtEVArRBflCNc2eEiyM7yeBOSza/w145-h145/Tyler%20Ard_300x300px-ALPSPWL012.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Tyler Ard is the CEO of Ardist Inc., and Assistant Professor at the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute. Dr. Ard has decades of experience in cutting edge data visualization, publication, research, and digital distribution. <br /></span><b style="font-family: arial;"><br />More information</b><p><a href="https://www.Schol-AR.io/demo/"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://www.Schol-AR.io/demo/</span></a></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-61194199294591283582023-07-18T10:39:00.006+01:002023-07-18T15:32:18.602+01:00Spotlight on: BMJ Impact Analytics<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>This year, the judges have selected a shortlist of four for the </span><a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/innovation-in-publishing " target="_blank">ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023</a>. We also invite ALPSP members to take part in the judging process before the closing date of 31 July. <a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/Awards-Impact-Innovation-2023" target="_blank">Vote online</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/x1AdG?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference</a> on 13 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner on 14 September in Manchester.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://impactanalytics.bmj.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="28" data-original-width="239" height="28" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-rDx8FIwHNoTEThhak7eKhf3aaeOPsTF33ye6qnPO7OhuAteqvPJsy-oGuT8PtY7YzgnEczHW69_BZEuWryXP0efOhsKPtpqDLY-QFVzQ22pP8K3SbRl_uqv-3OU33Wcs6KGVzcgesRXv6KxR7v8Jh_cmTfzBn6M66EoBijCxYksqHYihxRDhfiO4pOVC/s1600/BMJ_Logo_standard_svg%20(3).png" width="239" /></a></div><b style="font-family: arial;"><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p>Tell us about your organization</b><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As a global healthcare knowledge provider with a vision for a healthier world, BMJ publishes one of the world’s top five most cited general medical journals, The BMJ, and over 65 specialty journals. BMJ also offers digital professional development courses and clinical decision support tools to help health professionals improve the quality of healthcare delivery. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What is the project/product that you submitted for the Awards?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://impactanalytics.bmj.com/" target="_blank">BMJ Impact Analytics</a> is the first impact tool focused on health and social care. Developed in collaboration with Overton, BMJ Impact Analytics makes it easy to find, track, and share the real-world impact of health and medical research. It uniquely shows direct links to patient outcomes (decision support tools) and provides citations in context.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI647QsKCZMSW2STIfrat1Y7OUijxbB5jjpjRJ4YyviviZr2Z-1lvBDsyXISfi_RHAYTXypnhPOYAvlXHZzG90QLxlpOjAG7qKnfId_Xg655MHdeHRpBlFXTwMlz1-tRfB51xj-AAoKX9XEC-uXoYxdkRgc3TyX2hNary7Jp82dm2ldjJ3Ffzjq3wiJDmw/s1920/BMJ%20IA%20Homepage%20screenshot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="963" data-original-width="1920" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI647QsKCZMSW2STIfrat1Y7OUijxbB5jjpjRJ4YyviviZr2Z-1lvBDsyXISfi_RHAYTXypnhPOYAvlXHZzG90QLxlpOjAG7qKnfId_Xg655MHdeHRpBlFXTwMlz1-tRfB51xj-AAoKX9XEC-uXoYxdkRgc3TyX2hNary7Jp82dm2ldjJ3Ffzjq3wiJDmw/s320/BMJ%20IA%20Homepage%20screenshot.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">Tell us a little about how it works and the team behind it</b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Research that improves patients' lives matters deeply to the funders, institutions and researchers but is time-consuming and difficult to track. Traditional scholarly metrics were used to evaluate the impact of this research in the absence of more targeted analysis that specifically relates to health improvement. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>BMJ Impact Analytics </b>was created after extensive engagement and research with medical departments, researchers and funders. It was developed in collaboration with pioneering technology start-up Overton, whose mission is to support evidence-based decision-making worldwide by tracking the reach and impact of research in policy. Our co-development combines BMJ's health expertise with Overton's data knowledge to address the challenge of finding evidence of their real-world impact of health and medical research. Funders, institutions, and researchers can now effectively find evidence of their influence; by tracking where their research is cited in clinical guidance and health policy worldwide.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">In what ways do you think it demonstrates innovation?</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">BMJ Impact Analytics is the only impact tool created in collaboration with medical departments, researchers and funders, specifically addressing the needs of the medical research community. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive tool available to track and share the real-world impact of medical and health research. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Strengthened by continuous feedback from medical departments, researchers and funders, this powerful tool encompasses the broadest range of the best available medical sources worldwide, including local guidelines and decision-support tools used by healthcare professionals at the point of care.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">BMJ Impact Analytics uses modern technology and machine learning to help discover evidence of impact, provides context on how research was used and uniquely shows where research is making a difference closest to the patient. </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What are your plans for the future?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Since launching earlier this year, we have been delighted with how the health and medical research communities have received BMJ Impact Analytics. We will continue to work closely with these groups as part of our user-centred approach to developing and prioritising new features on the roadmap. </span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzVUQIjVrwoQNMCr2TdEsH9RXR0pVHlrZJ1jgFMbG5aEoaKEdI9Kz-lsKuryLncHdNxBkNrQgDtJiEkz690NwSvqRdrTmrM475DcVWvaTv1fhS_rWEX6VxrUzmS_iAT0L-7SGLLM9-tzI-NbmSBLCH37JPYVDxVEt-Pm1tAUoaQ1T14EPXRUgWnhvwiYV/s2400/BMJ_Twitter_v3.0-1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="2400" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzVUQIjVrwoQNMCr2TdEsH9RXR0pVHlrZJ1jgFMbG5aEoaKEdI9Kz-lsKuryLncHdNxBkNrQgDtJiEkz690NwSvqRdrTmrM475DcVWvaTv1fhS_rWEX6VxrUzmS_iAT0L-7SGLLM9-tzI-NbmSBLCH37JPYVDxVEt-Pm1tAUoaQ1T14EPXRUgWnhvwiYV/s320/BMJ_Twitter_v3.0-1.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p>About the author</b></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi88S_I_3W0DeOvGbjWNwDvx7ylW1TDKMolPPeHbq21KDvqWl9XiYV7oUMquhNZyaZ7O4spcvt7hUnATnKUEjSNmAQcv8qdywxO62HjVNcM2nuYn5Dtbn-gSzhDg_X_sBxHk-JdXwFZP4DiAE1I1NiIr6ZLk4MHJHlpWQxZbRev9DbXAUN3eXZvFYV4gHnx/s737/Michelle%20Philipps.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="737" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi88S_I_3W0DeOvGbjWNwDvx7ylW1TDKMolPPeHbq21KDvqWl9XiYV7oUMquhNZyaZ7O4spcvt7hUnATnKUEjSNmAQcv8qdywxO62HjVNcM2nuYn5Dtbn-gSzhDg_X_sBxHk-JdXwFZP4DiAE1I1NiIr6ZLk4MHJHlpWQxZbRev9DbXAUN3eXZvFYV4gHnx/w162-h162/Michelle%20Philipps.jpg" width="162" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Michelle Phillips is the Open Research Product Manager at BMJ. With over 15 years of publishing experience, she is passionate about real-world impact. She has been very fortunate to have collaborated with many inspiring researchers on bridging the gap between research, policy and, ultimately, real-world outcomes.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>More information:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Website: <a href="https://impactanalytics.bmj.com/">https://impactanalytics.bmj.com/</a><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/bmj_company" target="_blank">@bmj_company</a></span></p><p></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-59992195892391647422023-07-06T09:56:00.001+01:002023-07-18T15:34:53.822+01:00Spotlight on: IOP Publishing double anonymous peer review and transparent peer review<p><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, the judges have selected a shortlist of four for the new <a href="https://alpsp.org/Awards" target="_blank">ALPSP Impact Award</a>. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">We also invite ALPSP members to take part in the judging process before the closing date of 31 July. </span><a href="https://www.alpsp.org/awards/Awards-Impact-Innovation-2023" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Vote online</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the <a href="https://alpsp.cventevents.com/x1AdG?RefId=web" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference</a> on 13 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner on 14 September in Manchester.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ioppublishing.org/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="IOPP logo" border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="233" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ9zDoV2hyRJXTm-SlNa9sKnLeuVkf6SkOlvbIJSf_tW0ictMM1wlBPg84Ts47m8NW4IaQCqzQygqHQssqhgfwsbZxD4IYxOJHRvRZ3AWTBe6iP_rbnPVMPCML_YmSd5VUbGc4JQ-1K5wdUG4tbm_99qv-zNr272wugvnWUksr_MyfjDiBqq7v6moAQeu6/w200-h151/IOP%20logo.png" width="200" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Tell us about your organization</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">IOP Publishing is a society-owned scientific publisher, delivering impact, recognition, and value to the scientific community. Our purpose is to expand the world of physics, offering a portfolio of journals, eBooks, conference proceedings and science news resources globally. Our aim is to publish the latest and best research in the physical sciences and beyond, and make that research available to as many people as possible.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics (IOP), a not-for-profit society, our net income goes directly to the IOP to assist their mission to help everyone build their knowledge of physics and to provide professional support for physicists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What is the project/product that you submitted for the Awards?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To fight bias and lack of transparency in peer review, IOP Publishing has introduced two complementing peer review methods: double anonymous peer review and transparent peer review. Double anonymous review is applied during the peer review process, before acceptance, and transparent review is delivered post-acceptance through the publication of the reviewer reports and author responses. Together these two processes complement each other, allowing for maximum objectivity during the review process, and maximum transparency after publication. The first results show that these two complementary methods have a positive impact on the peer review process. They help tackle the significant under-representation of authors due to gender, racial, affiliation and geographical bias and address the lack of transparency and sharing of best practices in peer review. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tell us a little about how it works and the team behind it</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Introducing double anonymous peer review involved not only technological changes to our submission system (Clarivate), but also some considerable changes to our internal processes. Setting up transparent peer review was a major technological challenge and, to do so, we partnered with Publons to develop a highly efficient solution in which the relevant peer review data is automatically transferred between systems (peer review, production and web platforms) via APIs, without the need for manual intervention. A key element of the introduction of these two peer review methods was communication with our author and reviewer communities making sure they could appreciate why we were making these changes. It’s taken us about twelve months to migrate all our journals onto the new workflows, with the help from a specialist project team of editorial, technical, marketing and other supporting colleagues. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>In what ways do you think it demonstrates innovation?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">IOP Publishing (IOPP) is the first society publisher to combine double anonymous peer review and transparent peer review throughout its entire portfolio of owned open access journals. Even though, double anonymous peer review and transparent peer review are not new concepts in themselves, combining the two methods is innovative. The two peer review methods complement each other and together they deliver significant positive change to our peer review process and we’re beginning to see some fascinating results. For example, authors from Africa are more than twice as likely to have their work accepted under double anonymous, compared to single anonymous! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What are your plans for the future?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We are planning to roll out transparent peer review to all of our journals (including our partner journals) by the end of 2024. At the moment, we only publish the peer review history if both the authors and reviewers of a paper opt in. We may remove the opt in/out option so that all reviewer reports and author replies will be made public alongside all published papers. With regards to the roll-out of our double anonymous peer review policy, we intend to share our learnings and insights and are exploring automated solutions to help more authors effectively anonymise their work. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBdF220e02BW7NOGw3shzbmHER_zP3UZERHlbmgi7MjfTKhgtWRBA9Ib09zHr6qUGcYo6MnQSl357HdJoJ6zxFsQ9gNK1Yp0aDykr0m0QxPqApox_5xRvHV8ZUlJWC-q9c1Be40VJI1i6GtSNMJ4K_G7YgtNcQ8RNgsfokEQ-eHuVZdf05crz54jSQN1F/s2400/Kim%20Eggleton_IOP_ALPSP%20blog.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="2057" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBdF220e02BW7NOGw3shzbmHER_zP3UZERHlbmgi7MjfTKhgtWRBA9Ib09zHr6qUGcYo6MnQSl357HdJoJ6zxFsQ9gNK1Yp0aDykr0m0QxPqApox_5xRvHV8ZUlJWC-q9c1Be40VJI1i6GtSNMJ4K_G7YgtNcQ8RNgsfokEQ-eHuVZdf05crz54jSQN1F/w171-h200/Kim%20Eggleton_IOP_ALPSP%20blog.jpg" width="171" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #212121; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>About the
author</b><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212121; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Kim
Eggleton</b>, <i>Peer Review and Research Integrity Manager, IOP Publishing</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: arial;"><b>Twitter</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/IOPPublishing" target="_blank">@IOPPublishing</a><br /></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: arial;">Facebook</b><span style="color: #212121; font-family: arial;">: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ioppublishing/" style="font-family: arial;">https://www.facebook.com/ioppublishing/</a><br /><b style="color: #212121; font-family: arial;">LinkedIn</b><span style="color: #212121; font-family: arial;">: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/iop-publishing/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">IOP Publishing</a></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>More information: </b><br /><a href="https://ioppublishing.org/news/iop-publishing-launches-portfolio-wide-transparent-peer-review-on-its-oa-journals/" target="_blank">IOP Publishing launches portfolio-wide transparent peer review on its OA journals</a>.<br /><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://ioppublishing.org/news/iop-publishing-commits-to-adopting-double-blind-peer-review-for-all-journals/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">IOP Publishing commits to adopting double-anonymous peer review for all journals</span></a>.</div><div><br /></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-66878061120197945002023-04-24T14:41:00.000+01:002023-04-24T14:41:59.073+01:00How do we overcome research misconduct? <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Guest post by Sami Benchekroun, </b><i><b>CEO and Co-founder, <a href="https://www.morressier.com/" target="_blank">Morressier</a></b></i></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As the volume of research output grows larger and larger each year, new forms of research misconduct appear around the edges. While research misconduct represents a small percentage of overall published works, each instance seems much larger under the magnifying glass of public scrutiny. Without public trust, science has no power, and research misconduct is a disease that threatens the validity of our enterprise as a whole. Today, we have treatments to this disease - like retractions - but these treatments can still leave publishers scarred and damaged in the long term. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">What we need is a preventative and proactive solution. Something to stop research misconduct before it happens. In order to create that solution, we have to start by understanding why research misconduct happens, and address it on the industry level, not just within our workflows. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Why does research misconduct happen?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Research misconduct happens when a system is under pressure. There are limited resources, and a constant call to do things faster. On the part of the researcher, they face immense pressure to publish, in order to advance their careers and build their personal reputation. This pressure leaves them vulnerable to paper mills and predatory journals, and perhaps more likely to cut corners by engaging in misconduct themselves, or simply making a mistake because there’s little time to perfect a paper. Within our publishing and <a href="https://www.morressier.com/post/automation-in-peer-review-pros-and-cons" target="_blank">peer review workflows</a>, there are issues of scale and a pressure to review more papers, faster. When there’s less time to review each paper, there’s less time to evaluate and identify mistakes or issues that would make a piece of research unsuitable for publication. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">On top of the growing pressures on workflows and workloads, the broader business models of scholarly publishing have shifted, leading to an additional pressure from the world of OA. The revenue models for OA publishing have changed the currency of scholarly publishing from the journal volume to the journal article, from subscription to an article based economy. Publishing a greater volume of content seems to be the way publishers choose to ensure ongoing revenue streams. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Add to this overstressed system emerging forms of misconduct. In the last year, we’ve seen a huge volume of opinions and perspectives on the role of <a href="https://www.morressier.com/post/automation-in-peer-review-pros-and-cons" target="_blank">AI-generated content</a>. Is it a tool, is it a replacement? The role of AI in publishing is being decided now, but as is often the case with technology, use is outpacing regulation. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">So what now? </b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Today, we treat research misconduct reactively. We retract individual articles, which is a critical show of transparency as part of the overall trustworthiness of science, but is misunderstood publicly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So what would a more proactive approach really look like? While research integrity can be guarded with improvements to the editorial and peer review process, we need to go broader. It needs to be a broader industry effort that addresses some of the underlying pressures for key stakeholders. There’s a path to providing relief on the pressure to publish if we can evolve the criteria for tenure processes, career progression, and evaluation. There are strategies to make the peer review process more streamlined, so it's less time consuming and easier to engage with, but also more transparent so reviewers get the recognition they deserve. A more streamlined editorial process will also support the publisher’s need to publish more research. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Technology’s role is twofold. First, with streamlined processes, and enhanced integrity checks that can review manuscripts at scale, the process becomes faster and easier. Second, technology can support the improvement of papers from researchers for whom English is not a first language, perhaps broadening our published output to include more contributions from the Global South or also other non-English speaking countries. Here is a solution that would democratize the world of scholarly publishing: helping publishers increase their output while helping improve equity in the research community. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Risks and priorities for research integrity</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We have to balance the need for research integrity with the need to publish research more efficiently. At first glance it might seem as though curing research misconduct has the potential to slow science down, adding more layers of checks, more rigorous reviews, and complicated institutional changes that take time to fully adopt. Even further, prioritizing research integrity is an investment: it's expensive, and it can take a long time to truly see progress with point solutions or solutions not integrated throughout the publishing infrastructure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But what do we, as an industry, risk creating if we do not approach broad, scalable changes to our research integrity infrastructure? An ecosystem that struggles to scale, one that becomes more crowded and loses its focus on quality. Without research integrity interventions, whether they are embedded in our technology or addressed in the transformation of our peer review workflows and institutional pressures, we lose trust. The public trust in science is already at risk. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This is also a critical time for machine learning. If we feed our AI tools fraudulent data, or anything other than the highest quality science, we risk embedding biases in the machine learning process that will be increasingly harder and harder to correct. If we start exploring AI in the scientific review process or publishing program, it has to be with research integrity at the very centre of our focus. We’re approaching an inflection point with AI. If developed properly, it can be focused on making our systems, like peer review, more accurate, transparent, and trustworthy. But how, when the current system is imperfect and under strain? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We’re not the only industry asking this question: recently leaders across the tech industry, including Steve Wozniack and Elon Musk, signed an open letter calling on the industry to <a href="https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/" target="_blank">pause giant AI experiments</a>. In this letter they call for developing AI systems only after we are confident of their effects, and the need for independent review before training new systems. What they propose is effectively peer review for approval to launch new general AIs. For scholarly publishing, misinformation is a massive risk. We risk losing control over information, and even the ability to validate information, if we do not take care about the inputs for machine learning, nor how we allow AI-generated research to fill our systems. To address this challenge will take collaboration not just within our industry but with experts leading the technology revolution as well. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To close, the solution to research misconduct requires more than changes to our publishing workflows. It requires this industry to look at the bigger picture, the longer term, and start building for the future today. We need to build the technology for all stakeholders in the research integrity ecosystem, from researchers to publishers to readers. </span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;">About the Author</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlToCZI0uzY8F98Cownw-QkFMAfGa26J8AriNcxzXP1x9WyUXYJm50Fgi5jL2cDMUGQwNTwL3JQ52gf8NfLuchbD1kXd9VVa6BUt_vdZSGmyCL0Bna8aXbMkZ7xhKSEpxWzeOO-wl8OkAy9mYHnwmqIgsXSkvgpqjppIXBAE929gvhzYzXhe8N02HFg/s6364/Sami%20Benchekroun_Morressier_Highres.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4243" data-original-width="6364" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlToCZI0uzY8F98Cownw-QkFMAfGa26J8AriNcxzXP1x9WyUXYJm50Fgi5jL2cDMUGQwNTwL3JQ52gf8NfLuchbD1kXd9VVa6BUt_vdZSGmyCL0Bna8aXbMkZ7xhKSEpxWzeOO-wl8OkAy9mYHnwmqIgsXSkvgpqjppIXBAE929gvhzYzXhe8N02HFg/w200-h133/Sami%20Benchekroun_Morressier_Highres.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://alpsp.org/Directors" style="font-family: arial;">Sami Benchekroun</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morressier, the home of workflows to transform how science is discovered, disseminated and analyzed. He drives Morressier's vision forward and is dedicated to accelerating scientific breakthroughs by making the entire scholarly process, from the first spark on, much more transparent. Sami has over ten years of experience in academic conferences, scholarly communications, and entrepreneurship, and has a background studying management at ESCP Europe. Sami Benchekroun is also a <a href="https://alpsp.org/Directors" target="_blank">Non-Executive Director of ALPSP</a>. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.morressier.com/" target="_blank">Morressier</a> is a member of <a href="https://alpsp.org/Membership" target="_blank">ALPSP</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;">. Find out more: </span><a href="https://www.morressier.com/" style="font-family: arial;">https://www.morressier.com/</a></p>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0United Kingdom55.378051 -3.43597327.067817163821154 -38.592223 83.688284836178838 31.720277tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-91859692528275535112023-01-27T12:06:00.004+00:002023-01-27T12:14:14.358+00:00Mastodon versus Twitter - is this the research community's new digital town square?<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Guest post by Lou Peck, The International Bunch.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When Elon Musk bought Twitter " to help humanity", did he envisage a mass migration to other communication channels? Does he even care? It's not like Twitter was not-for-profit before Elon Musk bought it, so why the sudden migration? Maybe it was the final push to kick people into gear and look at what alternatives are out there. Elon refers to Twitter as the 'digital town square', but are the new kids on the block actually the new place to be?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We have been monitoring Twitter in the research ecosystem, and clients have been reaching out, asking us to research and help them learn what the word on the street is. So we thought we would compile some recent research to help you to decide whether you need to include Mastodon or any other social channel in your strategy, as well as Twitter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What even is Mastodon?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mastodon takes its name inspiration from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon" target="_blank">large elephant-like extinct mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs</a> (10-11,000 years ago) that belonged to the Mammutidae family. Living in herds, they roamed North and Central America and were predominately forest dwelling.</span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBSIm23oZ58QChZSVT7gpDkSPUv3uvG0vzAXCjTV1kbeON_gERDeag7WGRoofVFOXLh1wlOafO8YHC2yWBuBv2AqaqkVzG-ucETx-fmVQHnspA39fL1VA8gm-R0QQD26MzMpS6SkquaG1eOcVZwQXjYqs-cesIoOWm6FYzzf9x1J_DxHsXgPffjdrqA/s800/800px-MammothVsMastodon.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="800" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBSIm23oZ58QChZSVT7gpDkSPUv3uvG0vzAXCjTV1kbeON_gERDeag7WGRoofVFOXLh1wlOafO8YHC2yWBuBv2AqaqkVzG-ucETx-fmVQHnspA39fL1VA8gm-R0QQD26MzMpS6SkquaG1eOcVZwQXjYqs-cesIoOWm6FYzzf9x1J_DxHsXgPffjdrqA/s320/800px-MammothVsMastodon.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">By Dantheman9758 at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4289640
</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQJzE1HbaCk-kCjy7MxdlAHhfCxN3IKkr2gJs13ZxQXwKluCuSPdgalTe8EoMRRExXfc3ILOB3whlqTa_E-Oz1wKAqy4s7qLyjQWB5clhYOfy0b4xGedfqMj15r_lWpCU1NpYSNqftlN6Eo5ER-cBjCotEbZWRzUpNOX6soXid33qkvcbiS_waSJEAg/s2235/Mastodon%20logo.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1618" data-original-width="2235" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQJzE1HbaCk-kCjy7MxdlAHhfCxN3IKkr2gJs13ZxQXwKluCuSPdgalTe8EoMRRExXfc3ILOB3whlqTa_E-Oz1wKAqy4s7qLyjQWB5clhYOfy0b4xGedfqMj15r_lWpCU1NpYSNqftlN6Eo5ER-cBjCotEbZWRzUpNOX6soXid33qkvcbiS_waSJEAg/s320/Mastodon%20logo.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" target="_blank">Mastodon </a>is a software development non-profit from Germany founded in 2016 by Eugen Rochko and offers microblogging in an open source realm. <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/about" target="_blank">There are currently four members in the core team - Eugen, Claire, Felix Hlatky and Dopartwo and 1.8m monthly active users (+385% as of 14 November 2022)</a>. Funded by sponsors, there are three packages to support Mastodon, with the lowest already sold out. You may notice the logo in blue, but this is being phased out as part of their new rebrand to purple. I haven't been able to yet find out why they named their business after an extinct mammal, especially one whose name (named by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in the early 19th century) translates to 'nipple tooth' because of their distinctly shaped small teeth! </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Why Mastodon?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The four key positioning statements for Mastodon centre on being decentralized, open source, not for sale and interoperable. Not limited by commercial strategy with algorithms to show you what they think you want to digest, and no ads to 'waste your time', Mastodon shows you anyone you follow in chronological order on your feed to 'make your corner of the internet a little more like you'. Choose from any of the community servers (AKA instances) that best fit you as an individual (or host your own) and join Mastodon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-user-growth-rivals-mastodon-tumblr-2022-11?r=US&IR=T" target="_blank">Businessinsider reports a 657% growth in downloads for Mastodon</a> in the last 12 days (1-12 November 2022).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Whilst authors are using it to share and talk about their work, interestingly, a number of preprint bots have already been set up to follow:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://qoto.org/@arxiv_physics" target="_blank">@arxiv_physics@qoto.org </a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://qoto.org/@arxiv_bio/" target="_blank">@arxiv_bio@qoto.org </a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://botsin.space/explore" target="_blank">@bioRxiv_biophys@botsin.space </a></span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>A researcher's perspective</b></span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbPOR_9EVaqM_dQZyzb4KK9Af1RA0KMGDdE6uYPwXLmq93t1a9sEnSis-cP8W8AtAjpEX5JOa_IVgr0ZQYlVDW5vbx-OPvSeK_pGOY35uy_XSkuHRLLIlsi4qZch21PkR-54GpVbc2zqpIs2dzejjEiJsLRYjxnegkKQDMcmjxEu_mIyq_v-w-cxouA/s1731/David%20Bruckner%20Twitter.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1731" data-original-width="1300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbPOR_9EVaqM_dQZyzb4KK9Af1RA0KMGDdE6uYPwXLmq93t1a9sEnSis-cP8W8AtAjpEX5JOa_IVgr0ZQYlVDW5vbx-OPvSeK_pGOY35uy_XSkuHRLLIlsi4qZch21PkR-54GpVbc2zqpIs2dzejjEiJsLRYjxnegkKQDMcmjxEu_mIyq_v-w-cxouA/s320/David%20Bruckner%20Twitter.png" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">David Brückner has a really interesting thread on Twitter from 30 October 2022, where he concludes the pros and cons of using Mastodon over Twitter, and practical tips for transitioning to Mastodon from Twitter for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ScienceTwitter?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank">#ScienceTwitter</a>:</span><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">open-source </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">decentralized: run on a federation of servers </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">no ads! </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">no attention-algorithm: the timeline is chronological! </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">500 instead of 140 characters in each "toot" </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">key features that we need conserved: mentions, hashtags, retweets, likes</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;">David mentions a 500-character limit, but that is the default. </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/emnv26/how_to_post_more_than_500_characters_on_mastodon/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">In fact, it can be reconfigured - QOTO.ORG, the STEM-based instanceIn fact, it can be reconfigured - QOTO.ORG, the STEM-based instance, allows around 65,000 characters</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. David also mentions in his Cons that you can't post videos - but you can post all types of content so for him, it might have been that with such an influx of users, some functionality was reduced temporarily or maybe the server David uses is restricted. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><br /></div><div>On <a href="https://twitter.com/d_brueckner/status/1586720969766436864" target="_blank">30 October 2022, David asked his Twitter community what they thought through a Twitter poll</a> about Mastodon. Nearly 18% said they would stay on Twitter, over a quarter said they would try it, and a fifth said they would use both. At present, many publishers, libraries and intermediaries are keeping an eye on Mastodon, and if active usage and sign-ups continue, Mastodon should be considered as part of your strategy. We just need to be mindful of its longevity and future-proofing.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv-TdnngbWPVsEr_SqiFc3Tf-wWDeFWHZF5bWf7QxVzAnbUQclsKsIVctr1E2U7bGXEh1etJ6LSKeBSQy_J0kbLrG4tZMflyxfFFDL3qo0gR1L9gJn6Sma8Y2AywWOMtuvuEv7E7ksh6-nHU_N4a-UAkdrr-eA8UYR46GzrzRWQ3Sw2pouhNqTV77VAw/s1306/David%20Bruckner%20Poll.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1306" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv-TdnngbWPVsEr_SqiFc3Tf-wWDeFWHZF5bWf7QxVzAnbUQclsKsIVctr1E2U7bGXEh1etJ6LSKeBSQy_J0kbLrG4tZMflyxfFFDL3qo0gR1L9gJn6Sma8Y2AywWOMtuvuEv7E7ksh6-nHU_N4a-UAkdrr-eA8UYR46GzrzRWQ3Sw2pouhNqTV77VAw/s320/David%20Bruckner%20Poll.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><div>David has <a href="https://twitter.com/d_brueckner/status/1587760601559961600" target="_blank">another well-engaged thread on Twitter</a> listing his top five tips for transitioning over to Mastodon, including:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Find your friends on <a href="https://www.internationalbunch.com/blog/hashtags/Mastodon" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a></li><li>Sync your Twitter and <a href="https://www.internationalbunch.com/blog/hashtags/Mastodon" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> account</li><li>Choosing servers</li><li>Follow preprint bots</li><li>Mobile apps</li></ol></div><div><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03668-7" target="_blank">Nature reports since 27 October 2022, nearly half a million users have signed up</a> for this popular alternative to Twitter. </div><div><br /></div><div>How long will, as David puts it, 'the science party' remain on Mastodon and how long will they continue using it? Users seem divided. I found a server I liked the sound of and <a href="https://home.social/@loupeck" target="_blank">have created my own profile</a>. I'm finding it a little clunky to navigate but I'm sure once I get used to it, I'll be more active on it. I've always found Twitter too noisy but this seems like a much better alternative where I can actually see what people are posting that I am interested in following.</div><div><br /></div><div>As with <a href="https://scholar.social/@cameronneylon/109307407164352796" target="_blank">Scholar Social member Cameron Neylon</a>, I wonder where these social channels sit with altmetrics providers - are they including these in their algorithms? You can certainly explore preprints and published content on Mastodon being shared with a researcher's community. <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19992" target="_blank">How is this being translated into impact when the service is not yet set up - discover the GitHub thread</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>With hashtags like <a href="https://www.internationalbunch.com/blog/hashtags/GoodbyeTwitter" target="_blank">#GoodbyeTwitter</a> and <a href="https://www.internationalbunch.com/blog/hashtags/TwitterMigration" target="_blank">#TwitterMigration</a> is Twitter doomed? Probably not. But what about Twitter Blue ($8 a month) as a revenue stream for Twitter? How will this change the quality of content there? <a href="https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721" target="_blank">Being payment verified means you will be prioritized, and always at the top of comments and searches. Bots and trolls will get pushed further down in the feeds</a>. Will this help? Time will tell.</div><div><br /></div><div>Casey Fiesler, an information researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder, studied the migration of online communities, <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight" target="_blank">comments to Science</a>.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Mark McCaughrean, an astronomer at the European Space Agency, <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight" target="_blank">also comments to Science</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is absolutely a shift to Mastodon, but let's take a quick look at what else is out there.</div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>What are the alternatives to Twitter?</b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/twitter-alternatives-six-options-if-youre-leaving-and-one-to-help-if-youre-sticking-around-12744388" target="_blank">Sky News lists six alternatives to consider for Twitter:</a></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" target="_blank">Mastodon </a></li><li><a href="https://blueskyweb.xyz/" target="_blank">Bluesky </a>(from the cofounder of Twitter, founded in 2019)</li><li><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr </a>(recent sign ups include Deadpool's Ryan Reynolds and Wonder Woman's Lynda Carter)</li><li><a href="https://www.tribel.com/" target="_blank">Tribel</a></li><li><a href="https://cohost.org/rc/welcome" target="_blank">cohost </a></li><li>Log off - literally as it says on the tin - just sign out and log off!</li></ol></div><div>There are so many more to mention but others we know are worth a mention include <a href="https://www.reddit.com/" target="_blank">Reddit </a>- a favourite of mine to research trends and discussions amongst the research community and <a href="https://www.wechat.com/" target="_blank">WeChat</a> for connecting with Chinese researchers. What does this mean for sector-specific channels? Interesting to see how <a href="http://Academia.edu" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a>, <a href="https://www.researcher-app.com/" target="_blank">Researcher App</a>, and <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/" target="_blank">ResearchGate</a> develop and diversify. What about <a href="https://orcid.org/" target="_blank">ORCID </a>- does this give them a new avenue to explore, and even help with the issue around <a href="https://support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/articles/360006896634-Removing-your-additional-or-duplicate-ORCID-iD" target="_blank">duplicate accounts</a>?</div><div><br /></div><div><b>To include Mastodon in your strategy, or not to include?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Whilst we are in the early stages of trying out new social channels and working out what is right for us, Mastodon is worth keeping an eye on and including in your current strategy. Maybe we will see publishers and intermediaries sponsor services like Mastodon as part of their positioning strategy in an open environment. If anything, I hope these social channels recognize the importance of this industry and Github tickets around DOIs move up the list in terms of priority and are implemented. </div><div><br /></div><div>Whether I'll be writing an article in a year's time - the demise of Twitter and the rise of Mastodon in the research ecosystem - who knows! Maybe someone will create a server on Mastodon (please....) for the academic publishing community so we ourselves have a place where we can chat and be friends...</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Additional sources and reading:</b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/f7721046-b339-49be-977c-7cc9f657a002 " target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/f7721046-b339-49be-977c-7cc9f657a002 </a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/11/06/after-elon-musk-acquisition-will-sciencetwitter-medtwitter-move-to-mastodon-other-platforms/?sh=23d6663e3172 " target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/11/06/after-elon-musk-acquisition-will-sciencetwitter-medtwitter-move-to-mastodon-other-platforms/?sh=23d6663e3172 </a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>The International Bunch is a member of ALPSP. </b></div><div><b><a href="https://www.internationalbunch.com/blog" target="_blank">View all blogs by The International Bunch</a>.</b></div><div><br /></div></div></span></div>ALPSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838567073548666766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254957763085555183.post-12302899546950081662022-11-18T15:56:00.000+00:002022-11-18T15:56:13.868+00:00The Evolution and Future of Peer Review<p><i style="font-family: helvetica;">In this guest post, Michael Casp and Anna Jester look back at the ALPSP 2022 Annual Conference and Awards. </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.wiley.com" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Wiley logo" border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="2008" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXQIei4gtOVYL2cs6j-NeTwnFHgq6PqjiezcczJpQ1WbKVBHjVV4CneC6wrB-7eDQIiuMMzTPQSBMWgfgOCzYApKHXFkNSUMjHg6xpWz_Ll1ZWS5QBASEZG84W3aFJO-a4jrKTaDg8hPrCivaxEjOfAA2XsQ4Kut28BVBa6ex6QJCRFBX83FvCYx2YIg/w320-h95/wiley-showcase-logo.png" width="320" /></a></div></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Peer review in the Digital Age relies
heavily on email communications and web-based peer review </span><a name="_Int_q6g4iEu1" style="font-family: helvetica;">platforms</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to contact reviewers and organize
recommendations. In many ways, peer review today is just a recreation of the pre-internet
mail, fax, and file cabinet template, but pasted online. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With the current advancements in preprints,
social media, and communication platforms, it is possible – even likely – that
the model of peer reviewing, and the technology that supports it, have more
evolutions to come.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As communication begins to move beyond
traditional text formats, so does content. Getting “beyond the PDF” has been a
staple at scholarly publishing conferences for years, and as it becomes more
commonplace, we are navigating its demands on the peer review process.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But it’s not just about technology. We must
also focus on developing and empowering the next generation of reviewers in
order to maintain a robust and sustainable reviewer pool. This happens through
teaching and developing early academics, which can offer a technology-versed,
diverse pool of reviewers that can continue to utilize the technologies we
develop. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At the <a href="https:.//www.alpsp.org/conference" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Int_T9VqprNS;">ALPSP</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Int_T9VqprNS;"></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"> 2022 Conference</span></a> <a name="_Int_lnXDtYIs">we</a> were treated to many innovative ideas that will
have a direct impact on peer review, potentially changing it and hopefully
improving it, for the researchers and publishers and ultimately providing
better value for society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Beyond Email</span></span></b></h3><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Peer review’s reliance on email is a given.
That is, unless you’re in China, where the app WeChat has in many ways
supplanted email as the default communication system. Western publishers that
seek to engage with Chinese researchers might struggle if they only use email.
However, Charlesworth presented the ALPSP audience with a possible solution
with their new product, <a href="https://cwbot.com.cn/" target="_blank">Gateway</a>. Gateway
uses an <a name="_Int_9s94V6ym">API</a> to allow journal-related communications
to be sent to authors, reviewers, and editors via WeChat. This solution allows journals
to meet Chinese researchers where they are, rather than trying to pull them
into an (let’s face it, <i>antiquated</i>) email system.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Given this shift, eLife presented the ALPSP
audience with </span><a href="https://sciety.org/learn-about" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Sciety</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, a new
preprint evaluation platform that allows academics to review, curate, and share
preprints and reviews with their peers. Preprint servers have also started to
become social hubs for researchers to connect in more of a real time
environment than traditional publishing tools. This system holds the promise of
opening up peer review and publishing to a wider user base, allowing more
people to curate and review research than ever before. The challenge presented
by the scale of preprints is immense, and Sciety has the potential to
reorganize how we deal with all this research in a social-focused way.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One more data point to mention: with the pervasive
use of social media throughout the world, it is no surprise that academics
would have their own version. Despite </span><a href="https://www.enago.com/academy/researchgate-gets-sued-copyright-infringement/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">controversies</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">,
</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">ResearchGate</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> has maintained its
position as the largest academic social network, connecting about 17 million
users. With this many scholars connected, it’s possible we could see something
like peer review networks emerge, though that doesn’t seem to be ResearchGate’s
focus at the moment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: helvetica;">Beyond the <a name="_Int_pijnLJKu">PDF</a></b></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A decade or so ago, getting “beyond the
PDF” was still a new idea being speculated about at conferences. It is now a
reality, with authors providing data sets, code, and detailed methods notebooks
alongside their traditional manuscripts. As a partner to those authors, we’ve
come up with ways to publish this content, but it can present special problems
during peer review.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For starters, journals that employ an
anonymized review model can find it quite difficult to extract identifiable
information from complex content like code or reproducible methods. Sometimes
an author’s institution might be inextricably linked to this content, making
anonymization impossible – or at least impractical. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Other forms of content, like ultra-high-resolution
images, can present logistical problems. Industry standard peer review
management systems have hard limits on the size and format of files they can
manage. For example, fields like pathology can rely on extremely detailed
images of <a href="https://www.dovepress.com/whole-slide-imaging-in-pathology-advantages-limitations-and-emerging-p-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-PLMI" target="_blank">microscope slides</a>, and these multi-gigabyte files are hard to move from author, to
editor, to reviewer. Paleontology research can also require larger-than-usual
images, as sharing highly detailed photos of artifacts is crucial to the field.
Dealing with these kinds of challenges at the peer review stage can require a
lot of creativity and patience for all involved without a more flexible
solution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Massive datasets can also present review
challenges. Beyond the </span><a name="_Int_jMgWrnU0" style="font-family: helvetica;">logistics</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> of moving large
files, there are also often more basic concerns, like is this data organized
and labeled in a useful (and reusable) way? Is it actually possible to do a
real review of a large dataset in the time that reviewers have to give to a
paper? </span><a href="https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">FAIR data principles</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
are targeted at answering some of these questions, and services like </span><a href="https://datadryad.org/stash" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Dryad</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> and </span><a href="https://figshare.com/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Figshare</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
</span><a name="_Int_dgwAI0Gk" style="font-family: helvetica;">seek to</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> help by curating and quality controlling
datasets, ensuring they meet basic standards for organization, labeling, and
metadata. But these services come with an additional cost that not everyone can
bear. And a data review still depends on a reviewer willing to go the extra
mile to actually review it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Moving peer review beyond the PDF is still
a work in progress, but many of these are solvable problems as our technology
and internet infrastructure improve. Our <a href="https://www.jjeditorial.com/" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">J&J </span>Editorial</a>
staff regularly handle content like videos, podcasts, and datasets. At <a href="http://www.ejpress.com/" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">EJournalPress</span>’</a>, our platform is integrated
with third parties including Dyrad, Code Ocean, and Vimeo. These integrations
are an added convenience, as most journals and societies have to have direct
agreements with third parties for the integrations to be fully utilized. But we
often have to work around the peer review system, rather than with it, relying
on basic cloud file servers (e.g., Dropbox or OneDrive) instead of more
purpose-built technology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Open/Pre-submission Review</span></span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Another decade-old conference trope was the
constant talk about new open peer review models. You might recall that people
were split on the wisdom of this approach, but the rise of preprints has done a
lot to push open peer review and pre-submission review into the limelight. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Organizations like <a href="https://www.reviewcommons.org/" target="_blank">Review Commons</a> are working with <a href="https://www.ejournalpress.com/" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">EJournalPre</span>ss</a> to make pre-submission and
peer review a viable choice for authors by building review transfer
relationships with more traditional journals. The Review Commons model is to
take preprint submissions and have them peer reviewed. These reviews can then
be shared with participating journals if authors choose to submit. Journal editors
can use the existing Review Commons reviews to evaluate whether or not to
publish the work. In data presented at ALPSP 2022, manuscripts that came into
journals with reviews rarely needed to be sent out for further review. This has
many benefits, saving the editor time in soliciting reviews, and giving a
journal’s <i>(probably over-taxed)</i> reviewer pool a little break.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Review Commons is currently free for
authors, being supported by a philanthropic grant. It will be fascinating to
see if they are able to pivot towards a sustainable financial model in the
future.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We won’t exhaust you with the long list of
other open peer review initiatives, but suffice it to say, a lot of smart people
are working hard on making this a standard part of research communication. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Developing the Next Generation of
Reviewers</span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">None of what we’ve written so far will
matter one iota if there aren’t enough people in place to do the actual content
reviews. One of the interesting revelations we had while managing journal peer
review was the incredible range that exists in review quality. From the
in-depth, multi-page discussions of every point and nuance of an author’s
manuscript, to the dreaded “Looks good!” review, anyone in peer review can tell
you that we can (and must!) do a better job training our reviewers. We can
offer guideline documents and example reviews, but some people need a more
engaging approach to understand and deliver what editors expect. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It would be lovely if reviewing was a
required part of the science curriculum. It currently seems to happen in a
piece-meal, ad hoc fashion, many times driven by people who are willing to just
figure it out themselves. A more standardized approach is called for,
especially as reviewable content becomes more complex and varied.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One of the best examples we’ve seen of
reviewer training was actually a writer’s workshop for researchers wishing to
submit to a medical journal. The <a name="_Int_cQBu9hnM">EIC</a> of the journal
led this workshop, asking authors to submit their manuscripts ahead of time to
serve as examples for the workshop. During the workshop, the EIC talked through
several of these manuscripts, giving the authors invaluable feedback and what
amounted to a free round of review prior to the official journal submission. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Though this workshop was ostensibly for
authors, it was equally valuable for reviewers. Participants got to watch the
EIC go through a paper in real time, ask questions, pose solutions, and talk
through the subject matter with someone who had written hundreds and reviewed
thousands of manuscripts. This program has always stuck out as a great way to
train authors and reviewers, while also building the relationship between the
journal and its community. Win-win-win!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Formal peer review training benefits all
parties, such as the </span><a href="https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/supporting-the-next-generation-of-researchers-genetics-peer-review-training-program/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Genetics Society of America’s program</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> which also includes direct feedback from
journal editors. If you’re thinking of implementing something like this, your
organization may wish to conduct a pilot prior to a full rollout. Another great
model for peer review training is to pair mentors and mentees to simultaneously
provide training and </span><a href="https://blogs.neurology.org/rf/improving-peer-reviewing-through-paired-mentor-mentee-reviews-with-the-rfs/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">increase the number of high quality trained peer reviewers in the field broadly</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">. If
your team is willing to study the results of your reviewer training efforts, be
sure to submit them to the next </span><a href="https://peerreviewcongress.org/" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> so that we can all
benefit from your findings.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Demographics and Diversity</span></b></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Many of the journals and publishers we work
with are prioritizing diversity within their community by making efforts to
extend their reach to people who might have been historically left out of the
conversation. These organizations are also looking inward to seeing what their
current level of diversity looks like in order to improve it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Many organizations have begun collecting
demographic information regarding their authors, reviewers, and editors. We
recommend a thoughtful approach when embarking on this project, as it can be
fraught with pitfalls and unexpected consequences if you don’t get it right.
Before your organization embarks on this endeavor, please <a href="https://eon.pubpub.org/pub/gffx884h/release/1?readingCollection=6e32c0a2" target="_blank">consider best practices regarding data collection</a> and clearly define the initiative’s
goals. Wondering where to start? Do a <a href="https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/resource-library/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-resources/" target="_blank">landscape scan of what other organizations aim to do with this data</a> and please use <a href="https://www.rsc.org/new-perspectives/talent/diversity-data-collection-in-scholarly-publishing/" target="_blank">standardized questions for self-reported diversity data collection</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fortunately, many people are working on
demographics data initiatives, and there is lots of support and ideas available
from our community.</span></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Summary</span></span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;">To put it mildly, there is a lot going on
right now. The technology we use has the potential to upend the traditional
research communication process, and in some cases (like preprints) it already
has. With a host of new data, content, and equity concerns, people involved in
the peer review process have more to deal with than ever before. And it’s unlikely
that we’re doing enough to equip them with the knowledge and training they need
to succeed. But we can do better, and I’m heartened to see the many people in
and around our industry who are trying to improve the situation. From our end, <a href="https://www.ejournalpress.com/" target="_blank">eJournalPress</a> is supporting societies
and journals as they work to collect and evaluate demographic information and
metadata, and <a href="https://jjeditorial.com/" target="_blank">J&J Editorial</a> staff
are always investigating ways to support journal innovations through a
combination of technology and experienced staff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">I often think about peer review in the
context of that old Churchill quote about democracy: “It has been said that
democracy is the worst form of government, except all of those other forms that
have been tried from time to time.” Peer review might not be the best method of
scientific evaluation, but it’s the best we’ve got, and who knows, maybe we’ll
make something even better. But until then, we’ve got work to do.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YF8pDR55qZhMBytN2o8TbL8G8kJge5Ue1sDZtdum_NI_DOaQtQWUx0fA3ni2p83_cbsaK2j1RjthwxG6BG0-K7-drMBSTLAr7q-TkMD8VKCGOsDB8KH8J1x_gKdCEW_TfmhscIFRlv9R7tv2FtO2ZkivgYr503Mdk7uqVj1v0uyG-l6eXnUJdJvYIg/s1800/Jester_2022_SSPHeadshot%20sq1800.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="photo Anna Jester" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YF8pDR55qZhMBytN2o8TbL8G8kJge5Ue1sDZtdum_NI_DOaQtQWUx0fA3ni2p83_cbsaK2j1RjthwxG6BG0-K7-drMBSTLAr7q-TkMD8VKCGOsDB8KH8J1x_gKdCEW_TfmhscIFRlv9R7tv2FtO2ZkivgYr503Mdk7uqVj1v0uyG-l6eXnUJdJvYIg/w200-h200/Jester_2022_SSPHeadshot%20sq1800.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Anna Jester, VP of Marketing and Sales, eJournalPress, Wiley Partner Solutions</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwr7-nc-wW4lr5KXyk474nXF29hctRlesuPd8YsTHaoXwfOffIfP7cnPg44flRwY3vDUuhf3V-EBSdhnr76YFoI-si64ntmuI4GJ5R6vFvUxcyGHapigKIV2Vd4ak7YpqkTYqSTjAa7UVWUnWwNnjc7CMTMg6BosUpVM8JJf1cbftAGcEUSjEmUEyXKQ/s1800/Casp_5290-v2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="photo Michael Casp" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwr7-nc-wW4lr5KXyk474nXF29hctRlesuPd8YsTHaoXwfOffIfP7cnPg44flRwY3vDUuhf3V-EBSdhnr76YFoI-si64ntmuI4GJ5R6vFvUxcyGHapigKIV2Vd4ak7YpqkTYqSTjAa7UVWUnWwNnjc7CMTMg6BosUpVM8JJf1cbftAGcEUSjEmUEyXKQ/w200-h200/Casp_5290-v2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Michael Casp, Director of Business Development, J&J Editorial, Wiley Partner Solutions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Wiley Partner Solutions was gold sponsor of the <a href="Wiley Partner Solutions was gold sponsor of the ALPSP Conference and Awards held in Manchester UK in September 2022. The 2023 ALPSP Conference will be 13-15 September 2023 [link to www.alpsp.org/conference]" target="_blank">ALPSP Conference and Awards</a> held in Manchester UK in September 2022. The 2023 ALPSP Conference will be held in Manchester from 13-15 September 2023.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Wiley is one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader
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