Building on the work that led to ‘Do you come here often?‘ we held a (mostly virtual) event bringing together DOI providers, institutions, publishers and … Read more
Category: Open Research
Is it the right or wrong version?
Author accepted manuscript (AAM), proof, preprints, post prints – identifying the version of a publication can be difficult. This is often the case when the … Read more
Test your research impact muscles!
Take the quiz to test your research impact muscle and discover what more you can do to ensure your work gets found, read and cited. … Read more
Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Beyond Open Access – An Introduction to F1000’s post-publication, open peer review publishing platform
The world of scholarly publishing is undergoing somewhat of a revolution. Many current and legacy scholarly publishing systems are known to be outmoded, dependent upon … Read more
Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Open Book Publishers – An Open Access Publisher Writes
If you’re an academic or a graduate student, it’s likely you’ve heard about Open Access (OA). You might have used OA books or articles in … Read more
Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Liquid Books
Guest blogger Gary Hall is Professor of Media and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at Coventry University, UK, where he directs the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, and … Read more
The challenge of innovation
One of the key aims of the OSC is to “maximise dissemination of [your] work through academic and non-academic outlets, social media, alternative publishing platforms, … Read more
Maximizing your audience: Providing accessible formats of your research works to reach a wider audience
What if the format of your research means that you can’t reach all of your potential audience? Making your work available in an accessible format … Read more
‘Do you come here often?’ Starting the conversation on DOI’s for Book Chapters
Last February, I was taking part in a panel at Research 2 Reader and one of the questions asked was ‘What can publishers do to … Read more
When should I talk about research data?
Now. This would have been my shortest blog post ever, but for the general feeling that it is bad form to have a post with … Read more