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Goodbye GRID, hello ROR

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on October 23, 2021
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

On 16 September, Digital Science released the final public version of their GRID database. After six years of providing the best free reference dataset of organisational identifiers, they have passed the baton to ROR (the […]

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A winning combination: targeted segments in MasterVision

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on September 10, 2021
  • Customer Insight

DataSalon’s MasterVision service integrates all your data from different source systems and as a result offers powerful functionality for searching and segmenting. We typically include a large number and variety of sources in a publisher […]

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Open data essentials for scholarly publishers

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on July 22, 2021
  • Data Integration & Cleansing

An issue with which every scholarly publisher is familiar is that of uniquely identifying an entity (be that an organisation, an individual or a piece of content) which may be referred to in different ways […]

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Read+Publish reporting

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on June 14, 2021June 14, 2021
  • Customer Insight

With Plan S now in force, many publishers are turning to Read+Publish deals (with a single payment covering both reading and publishing) as a way of meeting their open access (OA) obligations. This creates new […]

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Visualising your submissions pipeline with PaperStack

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on May 12, 2021
  • Publishing Insight

Our PaperStack service is continually evolving as we add new features and reports to help our clients improve the efficiency of their publishing programmes. The latest new feature is a flow diagram offering a clear […]

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The great WFH experiment: one year on

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on April 23, 2021April 26, 2021
  • Management Essentials

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 […]

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Understanding funders with PaperStack

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on March 15, 2021
  • Publishing Insight

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 […]

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Reviewer scorecards in PaperStack

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on January 15, 2021
  • Publishing Insight

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 […]

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Supporting good causes this Christmas

  • by DataSalon
  • Posted on December 18, 2020
  • Uncategorized

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 […]

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Essential stats for Read & Publish deals

  • by Rachel Margolis
  • Posted on November 13, 2020
  • Customer Insight

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 […]

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