Publication of rigorously peer-reviewed research articles is at the foundation of scientific progress, but there is more than one approach to funding the production and dissemination of such articles. Open Access journals arose in response to a publishing system with ballooning costs and diminishing access, but soon after, predatory journals arrived on the scene to exploit the system. This talk will give an overview of the current situation in the academic journal publishing ecosystem and discuss ways that readers and researchers can protect themselves from the bad actors in that system.
Presentation about personal information management and the service secondbrain.com (in Norwegian).
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Publication of rigorously peer-reviewed research articles is at the foundation of scientific progress, but there is more than one approach to funding the production and dissemination of such articles. Open Access journals arose in response to a publishing system with ballooning costs and diminishing access, but soon after, predatory journals arrived on the scene to exploit the system. This talk will give an overview of the current situation in the academic journal publishing ecosystem and discuss ways that readers and researchers can protect themselves from the bad actors in that system.
Presentation about personal information management and the service secondbrain.com (in Norwegian).
Folk har problemer med å organisere all den informasjonen de har, både det de lager selv og det de finner på Internett. Det er spesielt vanskelig å lage systemer for hvordan alt dette skal lagres i en meningsfull kontekst.
In July, SAGE editors from the Humanities and Social Sciences Journal team visited the University of Sussex Research Hive to present to researchers on the theme of successfully publishing in academic journals.
Alpsp conference on discoverability lettie conrad presentation july 2013SAGE Publishing
Presentation from SAGE's Lettie Conrad as part of the ALPSP training session on discoverability. The presentation looks at how the landscape of content discoverability is evolving, exploring the current challenges and progress that has been made.
Transformations in the academic market - Ziyad MararSAGE Publishing
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Researching Researchers: Developing Evidence-Based Strategy for Improved Disc...SAGE Publishing
Leading libraries, publishers, and vendors regularly study the practices and needs of academics and students, in order to serve them better. This presentation addresses today’s search behaviors, emerging discovery forms, and access challenges, reviewing strategies for improving discovery and access that result from this research.
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I gave this presentation at a conference at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. It was part of Open Access Week 2013, hosted by JNU but conducted by UNESCO, JNU and CEMCA
Socialsciencespace.com a space to explore, share and shape the big issues in...ALISS
Mithu Lucraft (SAGE) spoke about a new online social network that aims to bring social scientists together with the broader community engaged in or engaging with social science research
What’s the Big Deal with Open Access? Traditional Publishing Houses and OA” –...SAGE Publishing
LundOnline is a two day seminar aimed at college and university librarians and teachers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Melissa Holden, Open Access Business Developer, SAGE, attended this year. The following is her presentation.
Open access in the humanities and social sciencesSAGE Publishing
From Louise Skelding's presentation on Open Access publishing in the humanities and social sciences, given as part of Dundee University's Open Access Week activities, Wednesday October 24.,
Working together navigating the changing scholarly landscape Rosalia da GarciaSAGE Publishing
How are publishers and librarians working together to navigate the challenges posed by the changing academic landscape? As part of this year's IFLA WLIC, SAGE's Consortia/Library Sales & Marketing Director Rosalia Garcia, explored these issues as part of the plenary panel session. The presentation looked at: the challenges faced by both librarians, societies and scholars and how publishers are supporting/adapting to these changes; the challenges of Open Access; how SAGE and Librarians are working together.
Supporting social science: Bernie Folan, UKSGSAGE Publishing
Bernie Folan presented the outcomes of a round table discussion with social science librarians and academics: what are the key communications issues they face? How can they support each other?
This session will demystify (generative) AI by exploring its workings as an advanced statistical modelling tool (suitable for any level of technical knowledge). Not only will this session explain the technological underpinnings of AI, it will also address concerns and (long-term) requirements around ethical and practical usage of AI. This includes data preparation and cleaning, data ownership, and the value of data-generated - but not owned - by libraries. It will also discuss the potentials for (hypothetical) use cases of AI in collections environments and making collections data AI-ready; providing examples of AI capabilities and applications beyond chatbots.
CATH DISHMAN, CENYU SHEN,
KATHERINE STEPHAN
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
In July, SAGE editors from the Humanities and Social Sciences Journal team visited the University of Sussex Research Hive to present to researchers on the theme of successfully publishing in academic journals.
Alpsp conference on discoverability lettie conrad presentation july 2013SAGE Publishing
Presentation from SAGE's Lettie Conrad as part of the ALPSP training session on discoverability. The presentation looks at how the landscape of content discoverability is evolving, exploring the current challenges and progress that has been made.
Transformations in the academic market - Ziyad MararSAGE Publishing
Presentation on the transformations in the academic market given by Ziyad Marar, Global Publishing Director, SAGE, at The Bookseller's Future Book Conference December 2012.
Researching Researchers: Developing Evidence-Based Strategy for Improved Disc...SAGE Publishing
Leading libraries, publishers, and vendors regularly study the practices and needs of academics and students, in order to serve them better. This presentation addresses today’s search behaviors, emerging discovery forms, and access challenges, reviewing strategies for improving discovery and access that result from this research.
Open Access Publishing: Lessons for IndiaVivek Mehra
I gave this presentation at a conference at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. It was part of Open Access Week 2013, hosted by JNU but conducted by UNESCO, JNU and CEMCA
Socialsciencespace.com a space to explore, share and shape the big issues in...ALISS
Mithu Lucraft (SAGE) spoke about a new online social network that aims to bring social scientists together with the broader community engaged in or engaging with social science research
What’s the Big Deal with Open Access? Traditional Publishing Houses and OA” –...SAGE Publishing
LundOnline is a two day seminar aimed at college and university librarians and teachers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Melissa Holden, Open Access Business Developer, SAGE, attended this year. The following is her presentation.
Open access in the humanities and social sciencesSAGE Publishing
From Louise Skelding's presentation on Open Access publishing in the humanities and social sciences, given as part of Dundee University's Open Access Week activities, Wednesday October 24.,
Working together navigating the changing scholarly landscape Rosalia da GarciaSAGE Publishing
How are publishers and librarians working together to navigate the challenges posed by the changing academic landscape? As part of this year's IFLA WLIC, SAGE's Consortia/Library Sales & Marketing Director Rosalia Garcia, explored these issues as part of the plenary panel session. The presentation looked at: the challenges faced by both librarians, societies and scholars and how publishers are supporting/adapting to these changes; the challenges of Open Access; how SAGE and Librarians are working together.
Supporting social science: Bernie Folan, UKSGSAGE Publishing
Bernie Folan presented the outcomes of a round table discussion with social science librarians and academics: what are the key communications issues they face? How can they support each other?
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This session will demystify (generative) AI by exploring its workings as an advanced statistical modelling tool (suitable for any level of technical knowledge). Not only will this session explain the technological underpinnings of AI, it will also address concerns and (long-term) requirements around ethical and practical usage of AI. This includes data preparation and cleaning, data ownership, and the value of data-generated - but not owned - by libraries. It will also discuss the potentials for (hypothetical) use cases of AI in collections environments and making collections data AI-ready; providing examples of AI capabilities and applications beyond chatbots.
CATH DISHMAN, CENYU SHEN,
KATHERINE STEPHAN
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
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In the world of digital literacies, liaison and instructional librarians are increasingly coming to terms with a new term: algorithmic literacy. No matter the liaison or instruction subjects – computer science, sociology, language and literature, chemistry, physics, economics, or other – students are grappling with assignments that demand a critical understanding, or even use, of algorithms. Over the course of this session, we’ll discuss the term ‘algorithmic literacies,’ explore how it fits into other digital literacies, and see why it as a curriculum might belong at your library. We’ll also look at some examples of practical pedagogical methods you can implement right away, depending on what types of AL lessons you want to teach, and who your patrons are. Lastly, we’ll discuss how librarians should view themselves as co-learners when working with AL skills. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the different libraries, with diverse missions/vision/mandates, to explore ways we can all benefit from teaching AL. If time permits, we may discuss how text and data librarians (functional specialists) can support the development of this curriculum.
David Pride, The Open University
In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.
Cath Dishman, Cenyu Shen, Katherine Stephan
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
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eth Montague-Hellen, Francis Crick Institute, Katie Fraser, University of Nottingham
Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to those who couldn’t afford it. However, publishers have protested that Green destroys their business models. How true is this, and are we even all talking the same language when we talk about Green?
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, Caren Milloy, Jisc,
Transitional agreements were developed in response to funder policy and institutional demand to constrain costs and facilitate funder compliance. They have since become the dominant model by which UK research outputs are made open access. In January 2023, Jisc instigated a critical review of TAs and the OA landscape to provide an evidence base to inform a conversation on the desired future state of research dissemination. This session will discuss the key findings of the review and its impact on a sector-wide consultation and concrete actions in the UK and beyond.
Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver, Jason Price, SCELC Library Consortium
As transformative agreements emerge as a new standard, it is critical for libraries, consortia, publishers, and vendors to have consistent and comprehensive data – yet data around publication profiles, authorship, and readership has been shown to be highly variable in availability and accuracy. Building on prior research around frameworks for assessing the combined value of open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide, we will address multi-dimensional perspectives to the challenges that the industry faces with the dissemination, collection, and analysis of data about authorship, readership, and value.
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Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.
Gareth Cole, Loughborough University, Adrian Clark, Figshare
Researchers face more pressure to share their research data than ever before. Owing to a rise in funder policies and momentum towards more openness across the research landscape. Although policies for data sharing are in place, engagement work is undertaken by librarians in order to ensure repository uptake and compliance.
We will discuss a particular strategy implemented at Loughborough University that involved the application of conceptual messaging frameworks to engagement activities in order to promote and encourage use of our Figshare-powered repository. We will showcase the rationale behind the adoption of messaging frameworks for library outreach and some practical examples.
Mark Lester, Cardiff Metropolitan University
This talk will outline how a completely accidental occurrence led to brand new avenues for open research advocacy and reasons for being. This advocacy has occurred within student communities such as trainee teachers, student psychologists and (especially) those soon losing access to subscription-based library content. Alongside these new forms of advocacy, these ethical example of AI use cases has begun to form a cornerstone of directly connecting the work of the library to new technology.
Simon Bell, Bristol University Press
The UN SDG Publishers Compact, launched in 2020, was set up to inspire action among publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, asking signatories to develop sustainable practices, act as champions and publish books and journals that will “inform, develop and inspire action in that direction”.
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Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines.
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Community-led organizations like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), COUNTER (the standard for usage metrics) and OA Switchboard (information exchange for OA publications) are committed to providing reliable, not-for-profit services and standards essential for a well-functioning global research ecosystem. These organizations operate behind the scenes, with low budgets and limited staffing – no salespeople, marketing teams, travel budgets, or in-house technology support. They collaborate with one another and with bigger infrastructure bodies like Crossref and ORCID, creating the foundations on which much scholarly infrastructure relies.
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Rob Johnson, Research Consulting
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Since 2015, the number of self-published learned societies in the UK has decreased by over a third, with the remaining societies experiencing real-term revenue declines. All around the world, society publishers are struggling with increased competition from commercial publishers and the rise of open access business models that reward quantity over quality. We will delve into the distinctive position of societies in research, examine the challenges confronting UK and US learned society publishers, and explore actionable steps for libraries and policymakers to support the continued relevance of learned society publishers in the evolving scholarly landscape.
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Over the last few years we have witnessed a seismic shift in the scholarly ecosystem. Three years since outset of the COVID pandemic and the establishment UN Publishers Compact, this is discussion-led presentation will look at how four UK Universities Presses have adopted a consultative and collaborative approach on projects to support their institutional missions, engage with the wider scholarly community while building on a commitment to make a meaningful difference to society.
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While research support teams are generally small and specialist in nature, an increased demand of its service has been observed across the sector. This is particularly true for teaching-intensive institutions. As a pilot to expand research support across ARU library, the library graduate trainee was seconded to the research services team for a month. This dialogue between the former trainee and manager will discuss what the experience and outcomes of the secondment were from different perspectives. The conversation will also explore the exposure Library and Information Studies students have to research services throughout their degree.
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1. Open Access Journal Publishing
in the Social Sciences
Lesson learned and questions
answered
Lucy Robinson, Executive Publisher
Los Angeles | London | New Delhi
Singapore | Washington DC
2. In this session..
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Singapore | Washington DC
3. First, a little about me..
● Editorial
● Nearly two decades
● 150 to over 700 journals
● Print to online
● The journal to the article
● Single to bundle subscriptions, to author pays
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Singapore | Washington DC
4. SAGE and Open Access
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Singapore | Washington DC
5. Why SAGE Open?
● Dramatic growth in OA market
● World’s leading Social Science publisher
● The first HSS “mega journal”
● Supporting and nurturing interdisciplinary research
● The Campaign for Social Science and social science research
● Independent – long term view, the HSS funding challenge
● Premier destination for high quality OA research in HSS
Open Access and SAGE Los Angeles | London | New Delhi
Singapore | Washington DC
6. What APC in HSS?
$195 $39 $99
SAGE Open survey: Over 70% 5
constituted personal
payments
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7. $ Price point monthly submissions
data
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8. SAGE Open: Facts and stats
● Open for submissions end of 2010
● Launched April 2011 with 6 papers
● Over 1700 submissions from 78 countries to
date
● 1500 projected submissions in 2013
● 185 articles published to date
● Nearly 300,000 Downloads
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Singapore | Washington DC
9. Published articles to date..
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Singapore | Washington DC
10. The challenge of HSS OA infancy..
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11. Lessons in revisions and decisions..
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Singapore | Washington DC
12. How many Editors & Reviewers?
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Singapore | Washington DC
13. Marketing SAGE Open
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Singapore | Washington DC
14. Lessons in marketing SAGE Open..
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15. Who are our authors?
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16. What do we know about them?
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17. What do we know about them? (cont.)
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Singapore | Washington DC
18. Are we succeeding in being “full
spectrum”?
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19. Top subjects for submissions
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20. What about our readers?
Source Visits Pages/Visit
1 online.sagepub.com 8,031 2.95
2 sagepub.com 3,548 4.03
3 surveys.sagepublications.com 3,506 3.25
4 sageopen.com 3,224 3.06
5 facebook.com 2,341 2.48
6 uk.sagepub.com 2,046 3.39
7 highwire.stanford.edu 1,496 3.51
8 36ohk6dgmcd1n-c.c.yom.mail.yahoo.net 1,076 3.1
9 as.exeter.ac.uk 1,032 2.73
10 t.co [twitter] 864 1.92
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Singapore | Washington DC
21. Platform analytics and Future Development
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22. Visitor Flows..
● 47% start with content page
● 38% start with home page
● 72% drop off after start page
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Singapore | Washington DC
23. SAGE Open today
SJ Nav
SAGE Open Nav
One click keyword search
Submissions
Alerts
Email Share
Alerts
Related Content
Article usage
Citation download
Comments & Ratings
Related Content
Social Share
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24. Feature and Usability Findings..
● On Journal Home Page
• About, Subject browse, Latest Articles
• Most Read, and Most Cited
● On Article Home Page
• Majority go to content and leave
• Subject browse, and Home on nav
• Most used features are Email, Usage Statistics,
and Citation Manager
• Little interest in comments and star rankings
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25. Wireframe Option 2
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26. Thanks for listenening..
Questions?
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Editor's Notes
2 years old this month Mega journal, not limited by page budgets, papers reviewed on quality of research methodology versus relative importance
SAGE and OA is not new Independent and innovative – engaged publisher committed to the global dissemination of research An STM publisher with existing hybrid option (SAGE Choice) 2007 entered into a partnership with Hindawi and launched 36 open access journals in a 5 year partnership Founding member of OASPA in 2008 2010 one of two published partners in EC funded SOAP Project Announced launch of SAGE Open as early as 2010 – the first ‘mega journal dedicated to the social and behavioral sciences and humanities. Followed with SAGE Open Engineering, SAGE Open Case Reports, and SAGE Open Medicine launching this year 9 additional fully gold OA titles
Dramatic growth in OA (DOAJ) including HSS As world leading Social Science publisher naturally placed to provide the world’s premier open access outlet for HSS First broad based “mega journal” in HSS Long history of supporting and nurturing new interdisciplinary fields of research Campaign for the social sciences (Academy of social sciences), value of, imp of fundings The world’s leading independent academic and professional publisher committed to the maximum dissemination of research knowledge and meeting our customers needs To support OA in HSS in the absence funding Edit down. Have text in notes. Look at press releases Modelled on P growing number of authors who require their articles to be freely available on publication, either because of personal preference or because of university or government mandatesLOS One
Less than 15% of article we publish in HSS are funded $695 list price, big submissions drop with higher rate, significant peak with campaign before higher rate, surge with $99. Less than 15% had institutional funding available for OA, 15% unsure, 70% no. Competitors, survey on pricing, fast moving (to make high quality peer reviewed open access more accessible to everyone in HSS without funding). Independent champion of social science research.
Comment on dramatic increase since $99 rate this year (green) and also December 2011 peak (still highest month to date in response to a price rise campaign) and highest number of submissions in single day (40)
12 articles a month at the moment, over 300 at this rate but we’re also seeking to ramp up article cascade of rejected papers from other SAGE journals in which we are in a strong position. Take up low to date but with more awareness of OA in HSS we expect this to change.
High reject rates 18% accepted in 2011 15% in 2012 In comparison Plos one publishes 69% of all submissions? Different in HSS, scientifically sound criteria (technical, ethical, data) easier to establish than in HSS (qualitative, theoretical and methodogoical) Challenges in finding editors and reviewers and more challenging to select and thereby ensure quality in HSS. Dramatically improved turnarounds with more resourcing and greater awareness and acceptance of OA in HSS 1200 agreed and pending decisions, nearly 10,000 invited to date. Attracting quality submissions, finding reviewers – requires resourcing With the “awakening” comes greater acceptance, succeeded in building and sustaining networks (quality important), more staff, have been able to significantly reduce turnaround and enhance service levels
Reinforces quality challenges we have faced – committed to a high quality Vast majority go through one or more rounds of revision Lower barrier to entry ie price the higher the rejection, e.g see significantly increased language based rejection decisions in 2013 following $99 price. Expanding board to assist reject without review
Unsurprisingly social media is a key component of our marketing activity. We utilize a SAGE Open specific Facebook page and LinkedIn Group, as well as SAGE’s discipline-based Twitter channels to promote content, OA news. (check numbers on FB and Linkedin) Our most effective marketing channel, however, has been email campaigns…
Email CFPs are our most important marketing activity. Through lots of experimentation, we’ve learned it’s incredibly important to get the message and call to action right, and to target the right people. Approximately 60% of manuscripts come in within 2 weeks of an email CFP. The visibility gained through the email campaigning has also contributed to an unknown amount of papers. We consistently see a spike in submissions in the first few days after an email CFP, followed by an increased level of submission activity for about 2 weeks before the activity returns to “normal.” We found the quick response rate surprising initially, but it has been fairly consistent. 40 is highest number of submissions on a single day (December). 246 in that one month (CFP price rise). 106 in march, 139 in Feb and 118 in Jan. So Feb best second month
Has been fairly consistent with the US massively predominating, followed by India and Canada. I have been quite surprised by the relatively low from the UK but we can see this changing in 2013 with submissions already on a par with full year 2012 so doubt being attributed to a significantly increased knowledge and awareness of OA post Finch.
Mid career
Facebook at number 5, twitter at number 10. Academic services at Exeter? The one above is where it is from a link within an email
Content page by which I mean an article, Compares with 80-90% usually with content page (article level), 10% with home page and higher drop off (80+ %). Shows success of marketing campaigns – much higher percentage starting with home page than typical.
Current HW platform 3 column format
One interviewee summed it up nicely when she said for the website the full text PDF is really all she needs, but the article services are like “the cherry and sprinkles on top”. Our interviews with authors and faculty also reveal that public article metrics are of most interest them in relation to articles they have written but not useful in assessing the value of an article as a researcher.
Talk along top main options menu. Competitor review and usability interviews. Much cleaner, 2 column (more space for PDF and full text) that eLife have developed with HW. More prominent menu options along top instead, key journal navigation tools above. More graphical signposts, buttons or icons to click to perform top article functions such as reading, printing, sharing and emailing Stronger Article navigation.