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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The warmest January on record and the severe floods in many parts of the UK are just two recent reminders of the ongoing climate crisis and the need for urgent action. Businesses can play an […]