Reviewer scorecards in PaperStack
Here at DataSalon, we’re continually reviewing and refining our products to ensure they meet the needs of our clients. This month, we’d like to share with you the latest cool feature to be added to […]
Supporting good causes this Christmas
2020 – what a year. When we wrote our Christmas post last year, we didn’t imagine that within six months the whole country would be in lockdown, with so many people suffering from loss of […]
Essential stats for Read & Publish deals
The Plan S deadline is drawing near: from 1 January 2021, scientific research funded by public grants should be published open access (OA). So publishers are increasingly involved in negotiating transformative agreements to move libraries […]
DataSalon are ready to ROR!
Last October, we reviewed the status of the Research Organization Registry (ROR) project to create unique IDs for research organizations worldwide. A year on, ROR is making good progress – the current version of the registry […]
Turbo charge your journals sales with MasterVision
The last six months have been a busy time for publishers, dealing with challenges such as increased submissions as well as getting used to working from home. As we start to return to some kind […]
How international are your journals?
With technological advances, funding of research by international bodies, and increasing collaboration between scholars from different countries, journal publishing is now very much a global enterprise. Understanding and promoting geographical diversity of authors and reviewers […]
Improving peer review efficiency with PaperStack
One of the benefits of DataSalon’s PaperStack service is that it helps publishers understand the efficiency of their submissions decision process. A key report here is ‘Time Taken to First Decision Split by Final Decision’. […]
Data-driven sales opportunities
In the current difficult economic times, marketing activities need to be carefully focused, to make the most of limited time and budgets. We’ve been helping a number of our clients to use the data they […]
The great WFH experiment
The coronavirus pandemic has brought about so many huge social changes, in such a short period of time, that it’s difficult to take it all in. A month ago at time of writing, I was […]
A little light relief
To provide some distraction from the difficult times we find ourselves in, here are some of our favourite Easter eggs of the non-chocolate variety. The term is used to describe hidden features in software, and […]
