6 things researchers want from publishers nowOver the past few months, we’ve frequently found ourselves sitting on the other side of the desk -learning directly from researchers about what they need most from publishers - at events such as this ALPSP Seminar, Sense about Science workshops, SSP and through our own UX testing.   Below are some of the strongest messages that…

JournalMap: map-based discovery of scholarly literaturePick up your smartphone and ask it where the nearest place is to buy a cup of coffee. You will be presented with a map showing all of the nearby coffee shops. Choose one and your phone displays walking directions on a map with an arrow guiding your path. It’s amazing and getting better every…

How do we nurture the research breakthroughs of the next century?Today’s post is the prizewinning essay from a recent contest open to UK-based Wiley Advisors.  Advisors were invited to submit an essay on  "The challenges and opportunities facing ECRs in building an international reputation in the 21st Century".  Congratulations to Jonathan Foster who has won an all-expenses-paid trip to Frankfurt to participate on a ECRs panel at…

How to maximize the impact of your published researchSo you have published your research, your publisher is working hard to market your work, but how can you give your paper that extra push? How can you maximize the impact of your published research? Listening to our authors, we hear three key consistent requirements: 1. Authors want to publish their work quickly 2. Authors…

Connecting the ivory tower with the boardroomOne thing I have concluded with 100% certainty during over 17 years spent working in both investment banking and finance academia is that ne’er the twain shall meet! It seems as if there is a universe of banks and bank practitioners out there engaged in finance every day, alongside a parallel universe of academic institutions,…

Battling the imposter monsterThe essay below was a runner up from the essay contest for our UK-based Wiley Advisors on "The challenges and opportunities facing ECRs in building an international reputation in the 21st Century".  Congratulations and thanks to Lindsey! If all the world’s a stage, the internet is the backdrop for a career in STM research. Journals, blogs, and…

Wiley takes measures to target plagiarismWith one in three editors encountering plagiarism on a regular basis, it remains a real problem in scientific publishing, and open access is no exception. And the problem isn’t improving, there has been a recent increase in article retractions and problems with published work tarnished by plagiarism or even complete fabrication. However, the growth of…

5 tips for improving your article's Altmetric scoreA few months ago, Wiley rolled out the Altmetric service across all journals on Wiley Online Library. A common query we receive from our authors is ‘how can we get involved?’ This post outlines five simple things that you (as authors) can do to help improve your article’s Altmetric score. But first, let me address…

Early career researchers and the pressure to publishBelow is the final post in our series of winning essays from UK-based Wiley Advisors on "The challenges and opportunities facing ECRs in building an international reputation in the 21st Century".  Congratulations to Patricia! Young researchers face many challenges in the process of building an international reputation. At the same time, these challenges and opportunities…

Everybody loves dataTo coincide with the RDA4 meeting this week and the publication of a special issue from Learned Publishing, we decided to devote this week to the topic of data.  LIz Ferguson starts us off with her take on the Learned Publishing special issue on data.    It takes little more than a glance at the opening paragraphs…

Who's afraid of big data?We continue our Data Week with coverage of an insightful "Who’s afraid of big data" session from the recent  ALPSP conference.  Ah Big Data, how things have changed!  Ten years ago a data talk at a conference would have been nearly empty, but these days it’s standing room only.  And so kicked off an interesting -…

Including third party assets in open access articles with Creative Commons licensesOpen Access publishing enables researchers to share and build on an increasingly wide pool of research, however, it also raises some complex issues.  Publishers and researchers need to work together to increase our understanding of these issues and to address them in ways that meet everyone’s needs.  Offering authors a choice of options is critical…

More data, more questions?We’re taking a break from our Author Series this week to continue our focus on data in conjunction with the RDA4 meeting this week.  Nevertheless, Mike Kirkby’s post below raises many thoughtful questions for authors on the issues surrounding data in research.  Do you want to use my environmental data, or I yours? The question…

Mark Hahnel of figshare talks open data, the six steps of OA, and moreWe’re closing out our data week with an interview with Mark Hahnel, founder of figshare, a Digital Science company which enables researchers to publish their data in a citable, searchable and shareable manner. Also-just an update, the special issue of Learned Publishing on data, covered by LIz Ferguson in "Everybody loves data" is now freely available…

7 principles of social media networking to advance your academic careerWhen you apply for a job or fellowship, or send a cold email to someone, one of the first actions that the recipient may take is to Google you. And the second action he/she may take-which is increasingly becoming the norm - is to check your LinkedIn profile. If you don’t have one, the perception might…

Wiley's data quality pledgeIf there’s one thing I know, it’s that a lot of enthusiasm is required to tackle a topic like data quality. Not quite the jargon juggernaut that is "big data", data quality in this case refers to the inaccuracies and/or gaps in data flows from content creators that prevent users from discovering and accessing e-content.…

12 questions from our early career researchers publishing seminarThe Author Marketing team hosted a webinar this week, which was an Introduction to Publishing for Early Career Researchers. Graham Woodward, Associate Marketing Director, and I were joined by 4 of Wiley’s experienced editors: • Fiona Hutton, Executive Editor, Open Access • Allyn Molina, Publisher, Life Sciences • Andrew Moore, Editor-in-Chief, BioEssays • Simone Taylor,…

Pioneering at MakerereThe post below is republished, with permission, from the Research4Life publication Unsung Heroes: Stories from the Library, which tells the stories of extraordinary librarians from the developing world.  Library Information Science was a new course of study when Dr. Alison Annet Kinengyere was an undergraduate at Makerere University from 1993 to 1996. "We were pioneers…

How to conduct a successful focus groupWhile focus group methodology is often discussed in the context of market research, it is also used in a variety of research fields.  Focus groups have been used to gather data on a wide range of research topics including: attitudes towards tobacco, meat quality, farming, electronic resources, patient quality, solar technology, health and safety, property…

Uncovering the mysteries behind the metricsAs a technology journalist, I’ve been fascinated by social media from the very beginning. I loved the fact that the web had evolved into a lively platform for people to engage in conversation and share information with each other; it felt like an exciting movement to be part of. When I hung up my reporter’s…

Four reasons why the h-index is here to staySince the h-index was first introduced to the scientific community by Jorge Hirsch in 2005 (Hirsch JE. An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2005; 102(46): 16569-16572.), there has been no shortage of skeptics angrily waving their torches and pitchforks in protest. And it’s no wonder why - telling…

Five things we learned at ALPSPLast month, around 250 publishers, editors, librarians and tech companies met in the UK for the 2014 conference of The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).  Several Wiley colleagues were in attendance to listen and learn, and also to present, with Graham Woodward speaking about altmetrics, Fiona Murphy chairing a session on data,…

Experiments in content curation: the visual wonders of PinterestIf you’ve taken a great photo recently or found a blog site you wanted to bookmark, then chances are you’ve uploaded or shared them to a social media site, most probably Facebook or Twitter. And if it’s an academic article, you might post it onto CiteULike or Reddit. But have you considered Pinterest? With over…

Navigating the digital revolution together: a Q&A with Michael Mabe of STMWe recently caught up wth Michael Mabe, CEO of STM, the international trade association representing scientific, technical and medical publishers.  Q. Can you tell us about your background and your current role with STM? A. I stumbled into scholarly publishing in 1980.  I had just finished graduate research into chemical aspects of radiocarbon dating at…