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Website’s role in content marketing5 October 2018An article published in Learned Publishing last year by Jacob Wilcock discuss how publishers must think of their websites as marketing tools as well as content delivery systems. The paper defines five major strategies of content marketing: promotion, personalization, targeting, consumerization, and analysis and optimization, and discusses benefits which publishers could gain, including increased site […]
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ISMTE 2018 Conference3 October 2018The 11th European ISMTE conference takes place on 8th November at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London. The event is set to champion to theme of expertise in the publishing industry, with presentation sessions being led by innovators and deeply experienced professionals, as well as drawing from the extensive experience of ISMTE member delegates in […]
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Hydrology Journal Editor Summit Editorial28 September 2018A joint Editorial position paper has been published across 14 hydrology journals, presenting the results of discussions from the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union – EGU in Vienna in April 2017. The paper, titled “Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications” reviews the current status of the journals and the publication process, and shares […]
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Diversity in peer review webinar video27 September 2018See the recent Peer Review Week webinar from Shirin Heidari and Sanjana Balu, hosted on the Elsevier Researcher Academy platform. The webinar discusses two dimensions of how peer review can help diversify the review process and academia. Shirin talks about the work of the EASE Gender Policy Committee, and the Sex and Gender Equity in […]
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Knowledge E Guest blog competition27 September 2018Knowledge E are holding a competition to win a 1-day pass to the EASE-endorsed KnE Masterclass in October. The Masterclass is being led by EASE President Pippa Smart, along with Phillip Purnell and Samantha Miles of KnowledgeE, and takes place in Dubai between the 28th-30th October. The course will provide journal editors with skills and […]
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Research Information Publishing Cycle Survey26 September 2018Another day another survey! This one is being conducted by Research Information, to investigate attitudes towards the research cycle, in researchers, authors, publishers and librarians. It is a follow-up to similar surveys conducted in previous years, with the aim of continuous mapping of changing attitudes to new trends and developments in the industry and academia. […]
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COPE Survey: Diversity and inclusion in peer review24 September 2018Please take part in this survey organised by the Committee on Publication Ethics The goal of the survey is to help COPE understand more about individuals’ experience of diversity and inclusion in peer review. The survey is anonymous. Results will be aggregated and shared once the survey is closed. The survey can be accessed here
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AESE conference21 September 2018Next week sees the annual meeting of the Association of Earth Science Editors (AESE) in Niagara Falls, New York, September 26 to 29, 2018. The conference will feature sessions aimed at furthering the goals of the AESE: To strengthen the profession of earth science editing; to foster education, and to promote the exchange of ideas […]
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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship20 September 2018This documentary has been a long time in the making, but was finally released at the start of September. Directed by Jason Schmitt, a communications and media scholar at Clarkson University, New York Paywall: The Business of Scholarship questions the profit margins and global costs of subscription-based academic publishing, focussing particularly on Elsevier and other […]
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A Checklist for Scoping Reviews19 September 2018As a champion of transparency and integrity in research, EASE supports the use of tools and methods such as PRISMA, as a protocol for conducting systematic reviews. In a new paper in Annals of Internal Medicine, a group lead by Andrea C. Tricco develop the existing structure of PRISMA, and present the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting […]
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Cochrane-REWARD prizes for reducing research waste: 2018 winners18 September 2018This year’s winners of the Cochrane-REWARD prizes for reducing waste in research were announced during the Cochrane Colloquium Gala Dinner last night. The winners were the UK Equator Centre (for its Good Reports Tool), the EBM DataLab (for its Trials Tracker initiative), and the James Lind Alliance (for its Priority Setting Partnerships). The prize of […]
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PEERE in 1 minute – Peer review at Elsevier with Bahar Mehmani17 September 2018Watch EASE Council member Bahar Mehmani give a quick 1-minute summary of peer review innovations at Elsevier during the PEERE Conference in Rome earlier this year.
