Category: Publishing

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was a wintery day in late 2017, when into my inbox drops another email… so far, so uninspiring – this happens as a fairly(!) … Read more

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

Technology and business innovations are creating new opportunities in scholarly communication which aim to transform scholarly publishing models. These developments have potential to help us … Read more

Predatory journals are a growing issue. By 2015 more than half a million papers had been published in journals known to be predatory, and Jeffrey Beall’s … Read more