Is flipped learning an opportunity for publishers?
Put simply, flipped learning involves doing the stuff that usually happens in the classroom at home, probably over the Internet, and doing what usually qualifies as homework – exercises, practice,...
View ArticleAligning publishing technology with the funder view of impact
There are few topics in digital publishing that cause so much debate as that of research impact. A lot of this debate – within the publishing world, at least – has tended to focus on ways of improving...
View ArticleWhy terminology in access management needs to be more … accessible
Recently, I was introduced to something called Domain Driven Design (DDD). There’s a great book on the subject by Abel Avram and Floyd Marinescu available for free at infoq.com. One of the more...
View ArticleJan Velterop: why peer review is ripe for reform
Peer review has many problems, according to Jan Velterop – including issues about its reliability, consistency, effectiveness, cost, and the time it takes to do. Most troubling is a deep conflict of...
View ArticleFive things ALPSP told us about the state of the industry
Autumn gets going with a bang in publishing, so it has taken me a while to put my thoughts about this year’s ALPSP conference in order. Sometimes distance lends clarity, however, and the time gap has...
View ArticleAccess management issues come to the fore
In the month that Semantico launched the newest version of its market-leading access management system, SAMS Sigma, at Frankfurt Book Fair, it is good to see that awareness of the problems around...
View ArticleAnthony Watkinson: why Brian Cox has zero impact
No disrespect at all is intended by this headline to Manchester University’s ever-youthful professor of particle physics, who in his broadcasting career has done more, probably, than any British person...
View ArticleWhen we work together in publishing, great things happen
The STM Association’s Frankfurt Conference 2015 raised many interesting questions around the theme of collaboration in publishing, with a strong message that when we work together, great things happen....
View ArticleWhat is the future for the academic book?
The scholarly monograph would have a future in scholarly communication, even were the print book itself to become no more than decoration. But the absolute primacy that the monograph has enjoyed within...
View ArticleAre libraries becoming publishers?
The world of digital publishing is full of unexpected convergences and transformations. Just at the moment we are seeing a lot of innovation across the scholarly ecosystem, with grass-roots initiatives...
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