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For many frustrated researchers, the academic publishing industry continues to move at a glacial pace. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Journal Impact Factor (JIF)…

A History of Huge Contributions to Science If you think back to many of the scientific breakthroughs in the 20th century, a lot of them came from corporate research centers:…

In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a policy memorandum directing: “Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D…

What Is CSR? In the simplest terms, corporate social responsibility (CSR) posits an argument that organizations should operate under social and environmental obligations in…

What Is Commoditization? In the business world, commoditization starts to occur in the latter stages of a product's life cycle (the so-called "golden years"). Consumers no longer…

It’s safe to say that there is no research without data. It can be good, bad, or inconclusive, and we pay very close attention to both the methodologies by which it is collected…

What is Big Data? Growing concern over how much data is available to researchers and the potential for what we can do with all of that data is arguably one of the hottest topics…

A Decade of Exponential Growth According to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), at present, there are over 10,000 fully open access (OA) peer-reviewed scholarly journals…

What Is Net Neutrality? The foundation of the Internet was laid by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the late 1960s, when a communications network was created…

METRICS: A Little Backdrop In 2005, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal published a paper by Greek researcher Dr. John Ioannidis entitled “Why most published…

A Changing Mission Research libraries have long considered their primary user base to be the students and faculty of the institution that funds their existence. Over time,…

Europe’s First CSA At the beginning of 2012, Professor Anne Glover, a Scottish molecular biologist at the University of Aberdeen and former Chief Science Advisor (CSA) for…