Yearly Archives: 2012

Societies Research Libraries

“Making a Difference”: A User Experience Competition that Celebrated Research4Life’s (R4L) 10th Anniversary in 2011

An Interview with Mulugeta Bayisa – Physiotherapist teaching at the University of Gondar, College of Medicine and Health Sciences and Dr. Tim Meade – Medical Director, Corpmed Medical Center, Lusaka, Zambia 1. Thank you very much for agreeing to participate in this interview for Publishing News. Please can you tell us about your current roles…

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David Nicholson By
Vice President & Journals Publishing Director

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Two Recent Editorial Seminars in Asia

CHINA A key objective for the Wiley China Publishing team in 2013/14 was to increase external editorial participation from Chinese editors and editorial board members. This involves getting the right people onto the editorial boards of our journals – people who can add value to the journals and aid in their growth in China, empowering…

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Mark Robertson By
Vice President & Publishing Director

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China-Focused Virtual Issues Promote Social Science and Humanities Journals

Working together from offices in Boston, Melbourne, Oxford, and Singapore, Wiley editorial and marketing colleagues in the social sciences are collaborating on a series of online-only “virtual” issues created specifically for the Chinese market. Each virtual issue combines previously published articles from dozens of journals and books on a topic of special importance to Chinese…

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Liz Dalton By
Marketing Intern, Social Science & Humanities

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Societies Libraries

Library Leaders Outline their Priorities and Challenges

Our Oxford office played host to a dozen European library leaders in mid October as we held a two-day meeting of our newly formed European Customer Advisory Board (CAB). It was a highly informative meeting with lively discussions on a range of topics including the future of library services, Open Access, the digital transformation, and…

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Emily Gillingham By
Director of Library Relations

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Campaign for Social Science

To write the best policies for reducing crime, ensuring social cohesion, running our cities, and protecting our countryside, a government must be fully informed about the issues. So it is surprising that there is no senior social scientific advisor within the UK government who can pull together all the relevant research at the highest level…

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Press Officer, Campaign for Social Science

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History Journals Take On the Research Councils UK

A recent statement by the editors of 21 history journals,including several published by Wiley Blackwell or our society partners, states that although they will comply with the Research Councils UK (RCUK) requirement to offer authors a gold (article publication charge) option, their green (unfunded) policy will require an embargo period of 36 months, rather than the…

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Alice Meadows By
Director of Society Relations

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OnlineOpen Orders are On the Up

OnlineOpen, Wiley’s hybrid open access model, enables authors to make their article fully open in a subscription journal, thus providing choice for authors to publish open access in the journal of their preference. With OnlineOpen, the author, their funding agency, or their institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers immediately on…

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Associate Director, Open Access Marketing, Life Sciences

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Resources on the Open Access Debate

Much of the current debate is focused on the UK and how universities are to implement the policy of the Research Councils UK  As can be seen from the link more detail on the block grants for payment of APCs (Article Publication Charges) was released on 8th November, including a spreadsheet showing how much each research…

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Bob Campbell By
Senior Publisher

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