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February/March 2019 l Issue 100 Call for diversity


Peer review players from the West want more reviews from the East, reports Rebecca Pool


Cause and effect


Chris Graf asks: what happens to research quality when we change the peer review and the research publishing model?


Prisoners of a system


Vitek Tracz gives his perspective on changes in research communications since the launch of this magazine


Evolution of an industry


Roger Valade traces developments in scholarly communication over the last couple of decades


Optimising the discovery of knowledge


Publishers need to update their services and business models to ensure relevance, says Sami Benchekroun


A ‘rebalancing of power’ Putting authors and content centre-stage All about the user


The library community generally talks about piracy purely as a threat to the future of the information industry


Spanning the industry ‘Two Brains’ lined up for conference


Former universities minister among ‘strong programme’ for annual event


News and products A smattering of snippets from around the industry 30 28


April sees the UKSG’s 42nd conference move to the new town of Telford


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We present a selection of interviews from the Research Information report, The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018


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Alison Shaw, chief executive at Bristol University Press, tells of her early career and her hopes for the future


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While the subject of open access publishing – and, in particular, Plan S – has dominated discussions at industry events over the last few months, many other matters remain topics of hot conversation in the world of scholarly communications. None more so than peer review – which has been something of a hot, complex and fast-changing topic for a while now. In our main feature on page 4, Rebecca Pool speaks to key players in this important sector and finds that there have been significant changes in recent years – not least in calls for an increase in diversity, in terms of not only a geographical basis but also in increased transparency. Last month, Research Information published its annual industry report, The Scholarly Publishing Research Cycle 2018; following its launch in December we are releasing several interviews in this issue of the magazine, as well as details of how to download the report. We are also excited to note that this issue of Research Information represents the 100th time it has been published, and we have two pieces looking back at some of the key developments over the last 16 years of the magazine. Who would care to predict what changes the industry might undergo before we publish issue number 200?


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