5 tips for promoting your research through FacebookLet’s face it; whether you love it or love to hate it, for now, Facebook is here to stay. With 71% of online adults using Facebook, the channel presents a real opportunity for authors and researchers like you, to promote their work, assuming you have the bandwidth to maintain it. However, before you jump headfirst…

All your CHORUS questions answered: a Q&A with Susan SpilkaWe recently spoke to Susan Spilka, Marketing and Communications Director for CHORUS, to learn more about how it works and why it’s worthwhile for publishers and societies to join.  Currently, Wiley supports collection of funding information from the author via our Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS). This information is fed to CrossRef and CHORUS, allowing…

Critical success factors for curriculum developmenteLearning programs are a great way for a society or association to improve its membership benefits by contributing to the continued education of its members or open up new sources of potential revenue, as we wrote about in the last post on eLearning. But once the decision is made to optimize an existing program, or develop…

More factors for a successful curriculumIn yesterday’s post we looked at three major considerations when building a new curriculum. It’s clear that proper planning and needs mapping, combined with excellent project management skills make a recipe for success. In this second post, we focus on another four essential ingredients in the curriculum mix.   The Content The logistical challenges of weaving…

Cooperation not confrontation- how to convince referees and respond to reviewsSome of the most difficult people to convince about new ideas, especially unusual or controversial ones, are experts. In other words, the reviewers who are likely to be peer-reviewing your paper are also those who are likely to be the most skeptical about it. Whether this is an advantage or disadvantage of the peer-review system…

From publisher to published author: a conversation with Vanessa LafayeVanessa Lafaye is Associate Director of Professional Innovations at Wiley and a newly published author of a historical fiction novel set in post WWI Florida.  She spoke to us recently about how she came to write Summertime and what it’s like to be on the flip side of publishing.  Q. Can you tell us about your…

Open access must be open at both endsWhat do Early Career Researchers (ECRs) think of Open Access? Following on from Daniel Amund’s post on the topic for OA Week 2014, another Wiley Advisor Jonathan Foster, winner of last year’s essay competition, shares his perspective. "If I have seen further, it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants". This famous…

Supporting the career enhancement of society and association membersAs we often discuss here, the support and engagement that an association provides to its members throughout the lifecycle of their professional development and careers is extremely important. This week we look through the lens of online recruitment and the benefits this invaluable solution offers to both associations and their members. In this short video…

Are libraries sustainable in a world of free, networked, digital information?Wiley Library Advisory Board member Lluís Anglada - Director of the Department of Libraries, Information and Documentation of the Consortium of University Services of Catalonia (CSUC) - recently published an article about the sustainability of libraries in a world where information is increasingly digital, networked, and free, based on a speech he gave at the…

Finding ways to get users the content they needThe American Library Association-Midwinter continues through tomorrow and If you haven’t stopped by Wiley’s booth yet (#2230), we hope you can stop by today to say hello.  Below, library director Elizabeth Lorbeer shares her thoughts on supporting users in gaining acess to the most useful research for their needs.  As a library director at an academic medical library,…

Getting just the facts with Fact Check CentralFrom crime to children’s diets, to global development, to hair loss, facts form parts of arguments, and we often see different facts marshaled in support of different conclusions. When it comes to research being reported in the media, we all benefit from lively debates, but no one benefits from reality being misrepresented, or from the dismissal…

How to be a positive academic leaderBeing an author and researcher can often feel like a juggling act at the best of times, and if your role includes a management or leadership role, it’s easy to feel frustrated or overwhelmed. One of the biggest surprises to confront new academic leaders is how much conflict and negativity they’re called on to deal…

Designing the one-stop medical libraryBelow is the latest in our series of stories republished from the Research4Life book Unsung Heroes: Stories from the Library which showcases extraodinary librarians from the developing world empowered by the resources provided by Research4Life.  Ovidio Padilla knows the true value of virtual learning and research. Since joining Honduras National Medical Library in 2004, he has…

How far have we come? Join our discussion for International Women's DayThis year marks the 20th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Women, held in Beijing China in 1995. To celebrate the many achievements in gender equality since that historic conference, Wiley has brought together many of our society partners, journal editors, and book authors to participate in an online forum discussing women’s rights. For…

10 things to consider when creating your Career CenterThere are countless examples of societies, associations and (yes) publishers who have made a real hash out of their career offerings over the last decade. Here are some tips on how to get it right! Content = Audience= Advertisers=Revenue You can’t simply build the website and expect it to look after itself. The first thing…

Across the desk: An Editor's guide to peer review best practicePeer review is an intricate system, based on trust and professionalism, as colleagues try to evaluate an ever-increasing volume of papers on short timeframes. On the one hand, the process looks simple: manuscripts are sent out to external experts with a request for evaluation, upon which an editorial decision is then based. But anyone who…

A librarian working with doctors to save livesIn this inspiring video, Nasra Gathoni — who was also part of the "Unsung: Heroes" series of stories of librarians from the developing world produced by Research4Life— talks about the key role that librarians play in supporting the work of doctors and researchers  to help them find evidence based-information in the new digital age. "I get…

Sharing my experience as a woman in STEM: Pass it onLast week, we kicked off a dialogue leading up to International Women’s Day focusing on how far women have come and what progress remains.  In the post below, originally published in Women In Higher Education, Laura Guertin shares her perspective on the challenges encountered by women in STEM.   Each year, one of my faculty colleagues invites me to her Psychology…

Wiley introduces ReadCube: where PDF’s form meets HTML’s functionWe hope that many, if not all, of our Exchanges readers have taken some time to explore the Anywhere Article on Wiley Online Library. Some of you might even remember the insightful post by Danielle Reisch and Vikki Baxter, which explained why we invested so much heart and soul into creating the ideal HTML reading…

20K papers published per week? ReadCube keeps me on topWith an ever-expanding pool of literature available globally, maintaining an organized library of research articles and staying on top of new publications has never been more challenging or necessary to the modern researcher. In December 2012, I found myself buried in a pile of poorly annotated PDFs while piecing together a research proposal for a…

A glance at what Readcube has to offerWith Wiley’s launch of Readcube this week, we thought it would be useful to visualize what Readcube has to offer.  But don’t hesitate to try it out for yourself at Wiley Online Library. 

Developing a unified approach for article sharing on social collaboration networksThe communication and exchange of scholarly research is evolving very rapidly   There are now at least 40 scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs - also known as social sharing networks, SSNs) offering services to researchers, including private and public networking and sharing.  Millions of researchers use networks like ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to communicate with each other, to…

What you need to know to build an eLearning solutionWhere to start In this first post, we provide some ideas to start your big-picture planning for an effective eLearning platform solution. Having evaluated the potential benefits of an eLearning program, you know such a program is in your organization’s future. You may have started to develop a curriculum for professional training and even identified…

How to promote your published content through podcastsOver the past three months, I have learned some of the implications of the molecular re-inscription of race in science, law and medicine. I’ve heard the thoughts of one of Britain’s leading surgeons on the future of surgical innovation. I’ve got an interesting perspective on regional development in the global economy while at the same…