A Q&A with Sue Corbett, Executive Director of INASP, part IIHere we continue our interview with Sue Corbett, Executive Director of INASP. In part I yesterday, we learned how and why INASP is working to improve accessibility to research in the developing world. More below on the success of the program and how you may be able to help. Q. Can you share a success…

Three lessons from this year's Charleston ConferenceThis was my third opportunity to attend the Charleston Conference and I finally feel like I’m getting the hang of it. Of course there were too many simultaneous sessions I wanted to attend and, once again, it seemed like everybody wanted to attend the same sessions that I did, but it’s exciting to be at…

Using altmetrics and social media for research and networkingToday it’s easy to connect with people around the world and participate in communities of interest. For researchers, there are also many ways to measure the influence of their research. Altmetrics provide a useful tool to identify who is sharing research in your area with his/her own broader communities. The Altmetric score can be considered…

Mining Research4Life for the good of the patientBelow is another installment from the Research4Life publication "Unsung Heroes: Stories from the Library" which shares success stories of librarians from the developing world working together with Research4Life to provide better services to their communities.  Two-term AHILA (Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa) President Nasra Gathoni wasn’t sure she would make a career in Library Sciences…

Hot apps for academicsWith smartphones and tablets now commonplace, apps have quickly become part of our everyday lives, whether they’re keeping us entertained, saving us time or increasing our productivity. But it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the huge number of choices on offer in your device’s app store - after all, some apps are better than others,…

Online purchasing just got easier with the Wiley Online Library BookstoreFor some time there has been a need to develop an online store designed for the use of institutional customers - to facilitate the purchase of our online library products. We were pleased to begin offering this service earlier this year, through the Wiley Online Library Bookstore. The Bookstore provides Institutional and Library Account Administrators…

Innovating open at MozfestIn late October, more than sixteen hundred developers, science buffs, and Open Web advocates converged on the Ravensbourne campus in South-East London to kick off MozFest, a hands-on festival dedicated to envisioning and creating the future of an open, global web. MozFest, now in its fifth year, began as a small, community-driven gathering with an…

Publishing and ethics: what’s all the fuss about?We hope that you and our other readers - editors, scholars, researchers and practitioners from the multidisciplinary communities we serve - are finding the Second Edition  of our publishing ethics guidelines to be even more useful than our First Edition.  These new guidelines are significantly different, and the world is changing rapidly. So we’d love you…

Six powerful ways to market your book on PinterestThere’s no doubt about it — Pinterest is a very popular social networking platform that has millions of rabid fans. But is Pinterest more than just casseroles and wedding dresses? Should you give it a second look as a way to help promote your book? And if you decide to use it for marketing, how…

Holiday gift ideas for your favorite academicFear not, there’s still time to shop for the academic in your life and we’ve got you covered with the gift ideas below. 1. For the Proud Chemist Does the chemist in your life have a favorite element? She can declare it to the world with Element T’s! 2. For the Modern Historian Now your…

Santa’s lessons for societies and associationsYou can blame it on my inner child, but when city sidewalks - busy sidewalks, in fact - are dressed in holiday style, it’s impossible not to let the thrill of the holiday season seep into every aspect of life. And with only a couple of days left until the Big Guy makes his magical,…

Holiday gift ideas for your favorite librarianLast week we shared a list of holiday gift ideas for academics, but we couldn’t stop there, so here we bring you a list for the librarians in your life. And, we need to offer special thanks to librarians Amanda Rust and Hillary Corbett of Northeastern University, who contributed great ideas to this list.   1. …

How AuthorAID offers you the chance to be a mentorAt this time of year, many of us turn our thoughts to how we can make positive changes in our lives and the lives of others. Some of us long to provide practical help and support, but feel we lack the necessary skills or time commitment. For experienced researchers, editors and librarians there is a…

Moving from JustGiving to JustGoing: Reflections from a volunteerDeborah Pentesco-Gilbert is a Wiley colleague who recently travelled to Cameroon with the charity Cricket without Boundaries.  Below, she reflects on her time there and reminds us why it’s important  not just to give, but to get involved. ‘Tis the season where many of us are asked, and indeed many of us dig into our…

A holiday wishlist from our society advisory boardAt a recent meeting of our Society Advisory Board in London, we asked participants what they wanted for the holidays and got some interesting answers!  If you could have anything for the holidays, what would it be? "I never have the right data so would like to have someone in a cupboard in the office when I need data…

Thanks for a great yearWe thought we’d steal a moment to reflect on a great year here at Wiley Exchanges.  Special thanks  to all of our fantastic contributors this year and to you, our readers.  We hope you’ve been enjoying a wonderful holiday season.  Oh, and check back next week to see our top posts of 2014.  

New journals for 2015At Wiley, we greatly value the relationships we build with our society and journal partners, so we are delighted to welcome more than 25 journals to our community in 2015. Many of the journals new to our list are published in conjunction with learned associations or other organizations. We are very pleased to begin our…

Our top 10 posts of 2014Well, we’ve reached the end of a great year and, as promised, present to you our most popular posts published in 2014: 1. Altmetric is now on board for all Wiley journals 2. 5 tips for writing better science papers 3. How and why researchers share data (and why they don’t) 4. A day in…

Ensuring that UK institutions pay just once for research outputSince April 2013, when RCUK and the Wellcome Trust introduced policies and funds for open access, concern has risen that the UK will end up paying twice  for research, and even footing the bill for larger contributors of research output such as the US and China. In an op-ed for The Guardian David Willetts, Minister of…

Recognition for peer review and editing in Australia - and beyond?Following a lively discussion on the challenges of finding peer reviewers and journal editors at a Best Practice Journal Publishing seminar in our Melbourne office earlier this year a group of 40+ Australian Wiley editors recently wrote an open letter to their universities, funders, and other research institutions and organizations in Australia. Highlighting both the benefits…

Helping Early Career Researchers to get peer review rightIn 2013, more than 1.4 million scholarly articles were published in peer reviewed journals. As the rate of scholarly articles published each year increases, so does the pressure on peer review. In the 2009 Sense About Science peer review survey , 67% of respondents felt that formal training of reviewers would improve the quality of reviews. While…

Telling the story behind the retraction: a Q&A with Ivan Oransky Ivan Oransky is a medical journalist, global editorial director of MedPage Today and co-founder of Retraction Watch, a site that tracks and reports on retractions in research journals.  In light of the release of Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics, we were eager to hear more from Ivan on the uptick in retractions, publishing…

Our favorite tweets from ACUKIn December, we attended the Associations Congress in London, following a successful trip to the European version of this event in Paris earlier in the year. With six streams over two days there was a lot to cover and we made use of social media to pass on the most interesting anecdotes. In this post…

Win prizes for sharing your research with the worldYou can now enter your completed or in-progress research in the 5-Minute Science Fair for 2015.   The Science Fair is an opportunity to share your research with the world, and potentially win prizes. For 2015 there will be over $10k in prizes awarded for videos that summarize research in varied disciplines. Currently, discipline-specific prizes are…