Christmas support for good causes
For the 16th year we are not sending Christmas cards from DataSalon. We wish all our readers and clients a happy festive season, but prefer to donate money to several charities rather than send colourful […]
Tracking decision times with PaperStack
An efficient submissions decision process is essential for maintaining the reputation of a journal, attracting and retaining good authors, and ensuring that research is disseminated to the scholarly community in a timely manner. To this […]
DataSalon in numbers
Given that data analysis is fundamental to DataSalon’s business, it’s not surprising that we like our statistical facts and figures, and this month we thought we’d share some about DataSalon itself. Taking into account all […]
Test your publishing and tech knowledge
As we’re all getting into the holiday mood, we thought we’d keep things light this month with a quiz – read on to test your knowledge of publishing and technology. 1. Which ‘Alex’ is OpenAlex […]
A new look for PaperStack’s home page
Users of our PaperStack service will have noticed that the report tiles on the home page have had a makeover. We love the beautiful design our technical team have come up with and want to […]
Visual tracking of rejected journal articles with PaperStack
A few months ago, we announced the addition of a new rejected article tracking module to our PaperStack service. We’ve now added some exciting new visuals to help users review and analyse the data from […]
A review of OpenAlex
Here at DataSalon, we’re always keeping an eye out for new sources that we can use to enhance our clients’ data in our MasterVision and PaperStack services, and recently we’ve been doing some initial exploration […]
Charity isn’t just for Christmas
For the past 15 years now we’ve given charity donations at Christmas on behalf of DataSalon’s staff and clients. It’s not just a token gesture – giving to good causes has always been important to […]
DataSalon’s secret sauce revealed
Both of DataSalon’s core services, MasterVision and PaperStack, join together data from multiple sources for complete insight into customer activity and the publishing process. The ‘sauce’ that brings together all these ‘ingredients’ and enriches the […]
Funder Registry essentials
A key element of DataSalon’s PaperStack service is the automatic integration of Funder Registry data, to support understanding of the funding landscape, analysis of funding sources for articles, and the meeting of funder mandates. This […]
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