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August/September 2021 l Issue 115 Transformational OA


agreements: help or hindrance?


Many in scholarly publishing believe open access funding agreements will tip the balance of publishing output. But not everyone, reports Rebecca Pool


Turning scholarly research content inside-out


Neil Blair Christensen discusses the evolution of enriched scholarly research Trekking into the semantic


frontier


Jonathan Bresman explains why the Starship Enterprise and Jurassic Park needed semantic search


It’s just keyword tagging, right? 14 Wrong!


Jennifer Schivas re-examines semantic enrichment’s strategic importance and suggests the real question for 2021 is not ‘why?’ but ‘how?’


The importance of interrogation 15


The need for fast, accurate and enriched data has never been more pressing, says Manisha Bolina


Get the picture – keywording in context


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Keywords help people find visual content on search engines, photo libraries and in-house image databases, writes Clemency Wright


Back to the future going forward 18


Phil Gooch looks back at the history of semantic enrichment, and how it will be used


10 Emerging content formats 4


Advancements in digital technologies have played a vital role in modernising the scholarly publication process, says Prabhakar Bisen


What is a linguistic monopoly? 20


Research institutions and funders need to be more aware of the phenomenon, writes Amer Abukhalaf


Academic research should 12


benefit society, not shareholders Publishers’ power in the research ecosystem must be tackled on a sector wide basis, says Silke Machold


The art of the possible


We need a national infrastructure for research data so that we can apply AI and machine learning, writes Nathan Cunningham


Are repositories the key to institutional resilience?


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The repository has become an increasingly important and integral part of an institution’s infrastructure, writes Harriet Clark


Reaching out ‘to promote equity’ 26


AIP Publishing’s Simone Taylor talks digital books, inclusion, long-distance walking and gluten-free baking


A shift in communication News Suppliers directory 28


Anna Clarkson of Taylor & Francis details a reconstruction of the publishing process


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A cacophony of correspondence from the scholarly communications industry


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Since Plan S – the initiative for open access publishing – was launched in September 2018, key publishers have been embracing ‘transformative agreements’, whereby publisher payments for reading and publishing are bundled into a single contract rather than being addressed ad hoc by the author choosing OA publishing. Many in the industry hope these deals will make publishing processes easier and more financially viable, and help both institutions and authors tip the balance of publishing output towards open access. But there are some dissenting voices that claim that transformative agreements are in fact a distraction from the aims of Plan S, and that efficiencies and cost-savings are not being transferred to libraries and research establishments. In her feature on Page 4, Rebecca


Pool canvasses opinions on both sides of the argument and tracks progress in different jurisdictions around the world.


Semantic enrichment has been


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something of a hot topic in recent years, and remains so. In this issue of Research Information we have five hot takes on the subject, explaining why – especially while we are still in a pandemic – the need for fast, accurate and enriched data has never been more pressing. On the subject of the pandemic – while in the UK and elsewhere there is still clearly a pressing need for caution around travel and social interaction – there are some encouraging signs that live industry events may soon be a possibility. Cautiously, but optimistically, we say: bring it on!


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Leader: Tim Gillett Transformation time?


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