The terms “access” and “scholarly journals” are often linked to Open Access publishing. Less often discussed—but still very important—are issues and challenges of making journal content accessible to the visually, cognitively, or otherwise impaired.
Read MoreJohn Bond of Riverwinds Consulting is creating a video library of useful shorts about topics and terms important to the STM publishing industry. For some people, his shorts may provide a great refresher or another take on subjects that impact our market. For those just starting their career in STM publishing, his video series should be required viewing!
Read MoreIt was another busy year at London Book Fair last week with reports of increased registration numbers up by a double-digit percentage.
Read MoreAfter almost two decades, the Open Access publishing model is still controversial, and misunderstood. Here’s where we stand today.
Read MoreCenveo Publisher Services now offers peer review management as a service. Journal publishers depend on the peer review process to validate research and uphold the quality of published articles. With deep expertise in scholarly publishing, our staff is fluent in all peer review models as well as the nuances of major peer review systems.
Read MoreAs 2017 quickly approaches, we're sure to read, learn, and understand more about the role scholarly publishing will play in our post-truth world. Content validation, peer review, image forensics, traditional citation databases---these are long-established and critical components of the scholarly publishing process. While the demand for increased speed to publication became a critical measurement of a journal publisher's success, editorial integrity and quality remain the gold standard by which publications are judged.
Read MoreIn the STM journal publishing world, it seems like every few years we have a new phrase to describe the dissemination of scholarly content. Each phrase describes a slightly different aspect of journal publishing and based on where you work in an organization, it may mean something slightly different.
Read MoreThis past Tuesday and Wednesday (October 4 to 5), SSP hosted its Fall Seminar at the American Geophysical Union office in DC. The event was organized around three themes with presentations from publishers', vendors', and consultants' perspectives.
Read MoreWhile some academic publishing metadata standards have yet to reach a “tipping point,” others are already well established. The Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, is one of these.
Read MoreRetraction Watch recently discussed why PLOS ONE's correction rate is higher than average---authors do not review page proofs.
Everyone in scholarly publishing understands that mistakes are made along the publishing process and the bright side of digital publishing allows for quick redaction and updates to scholarly papers. However, when correction rates are higher than what's typically considered acceptable, which is about 1.5%, it's time to look into the workflow to determine what exactly is going on.
Read MoreAt the Society for Scholarly Publishing's 38th Annual Meeting a group of dedicated writers, editors, technologists, and publishers are contributing to a real-time collaboration to write the "future of scholarly publishing." The Book Sprint project is led by Arizona State University’s (ASU) Center for Science and the Imagination, who developed the project.
Read MoreIn August 2016, Crossref will enable members to assign Crossref DOIs to preprints. This is major news for the scholarly publishing community and an example of how the needs and practices of modern researchers impact change. Previously, Crossref's policy prevented members from registering and assigning DOIs to "duplicative works." However, in the creation and dissemination of scholarly content today, users have a real need to access earlier versions of research papers.
Read MoreIn 1976, the PSP Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) established the PSP Awards for Excellence, with the R.R. Hawkins Award as its top prize. Recognizing the very best in professional and scholarly publishing, the PSP Awards sought to bring attention to distinguished works across a broad spectrum of scholarship. Now recognized as the PROSE Awards, PSP recently released an interactive digital publication honoring its rich 40-year history.
Read MoreScholarly publishing consultants Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger recently published the report, "How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications." This report should be required reading for those in the scholarly publishing industry! The result of an impressive large-scale survey of readers of scholarly publications (n=40,439) and their behavior in the discovery of journal articles and online books, this report provides a rich resource of user interaction and trends over 10 years.
Read MoreThree publishers have required ORCID iDs for their authors---eLife, PLOS, and The Royal Society. Even more publishers will make this a requirement in the coming months. All great news for the adoption of this important industry standard. As more connections are established between publishers, authors, funders, and service providers the scholarly industry as a whole benefits.
Read MoreAt Cenveo Publisher Services, we created The Publisher's Office based on 130+ years' experience with society and association publishers. The Publisher's Office provides full-service editorial and production management for journal publishers. By providing product, technology, and service combined with editorial and author/editor support, our mission is to promote organizations as recognized leaders in their publishing field.
Read MoreContent wants to be found and consumed - but discoverability and accessibility doesn’t happen by accident. With the exponential proliferation of content and its many delivery methods, it’s more important than ever that publishers think deeply about content architecture and workflow processes that best support product strategy.
Read MoreWe are launching a new educational and interactive series for the scholarly publishing community: Cenveo Publisher Services - Lunch & Learn.
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