The great WFH experiment: one year on

Last April, many of us were still getting used to working from home. A year on, that has proved to be a less temporary arrangement than we thought at the time. How is it panning […]

Funding data has been of key importance to journal publishers for some time now, and recent events have if anything reinforced this. Plan S came into effect in January, so that it’s now essential that […]

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 […]

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 […]

by Rachel Margolis
Posted on October 14, 2020October 22, 2020
Data Integration & Cleansing

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’. […]

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 […]

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 […]