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Integrated content – the future, now 22 Aug 2013 | 01:31 pm
It was interesting to see a release from Highwire Press last month about their partnership with Tizra to extend ebook functionality on the Highwire platform. This exemplifies a trend we are seeing for...
Young Rewired State: nurturing digital talent 21 Aug 2013 | 04:23 pm
Fourteen people sit hunched over laptops, surrounded by drifts of empty crisp packets and sandwich wrappers. The youngest (12 years old) is coding a back-end login system for a website that helps youn...
Research Information article: Text and data mining 13 Aug 2013 | 03:02 pm
Companies wishing to maximise the value of their content often turn to text and data mining services. Large organisations and publishers are keen to semantically enrich their content to help readers s...
Brighton rocks as a digital hub 29 Jul 2013 | 02:06 pm
Mashable recently featured an excellent article: Brighton Wants to Be London’s Silicon Valley. The article makes the point that such is Brighton’s growth as a digital hub that people are reverse-commu...
Are predatory publishers an American export? – part 2 25 Jul 2013 | 05:45 pm
In my previous post on this topic I attempted to determine the location of predatory publishers – as defined and listed by Beall - by geo-locating the IP addresses of their URLs. I noted that there we...
Points mean prizes: how publishers are adding value with CPD 17 Jul 2013 | 01:33 pm
Publishers are always looking for new ways to add value. Online revision guides, such as OUP’s PASSit product and their eLearning journals and books platforms, all developed by Semantico, are one way ...
‘Free-range’ activism on predatory practices does our industry a disservice 10 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
Predatory publishing is a serious issue that must be eradicated. My two previous posts on predatory publishers (Open Access vs. Neo-colonialism and Are predatory publishers an American export?) have f...
Wireframing as a part of user experience definition: thoughts on fidelity 4 Jul 2013 | 01:56 pm
The wireframe is a ubiquitous tool in the UX armoury when building sites, apps and games. Wireframes are used to convey the requirements and features for each page or screen and to specify and communi...
Open access: the view from the library 19 Jun 2013 | 01:20 pm
In the wake of the Finch report last year, the UK government gave unequivocal support to Open Access (OA), with a strong preference for the ‘Gold’ route. Money was pledged to speed the transition to t...
Bookseller article: Opening doors 5 Jun 2013 | 01:40 pm
Open Access challenges publishers to innovate: to develop new journals and new platforms, to rethink existing processes and models. As vendors within the scholarly publishing ecosystem, we also have t...
