Contents and Leader iResearchnformation December 2021/ January 2022 l Issue 117


Open science and the new normal


CISPC 2021 update


Diversity, sustainable development and hybrid meetings on agenda for webcast series


Audio and video ‘broadening 12 target audiences’


Shane Rydquist and Minhaj Rais ask: has investment in new content types led to a new era in discovery?


Insights on the use of audio-visual content by surgeons


Industry at a strategic crossroads


Sami Benchekroun outlines post- pandemic trends in scholarly communications


‘Crucial time’ for OA monographs


Feature case study 16


‘Elitist world’ discriminating against humanities must be avoided, write Martin Eve and Anthony Cond


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Bloomsbury outlines its commitment to expanding open access for scholarly books


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Options for disseminating research content have proliferated over the past decade, writes David Armstrong


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While open science has gained from the pandemic many challenges remain, writes David Stuart


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Institutional intent vs. repository reality


How AI is accelerating research publishing


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Institutional repositories have not evolved in the way they were first intended, writes Alvin Hutchinson


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Peer review-based publishing is under more pressure than ever to become faster and more open, writes Rachel Burley


Embedding a positive culture 21


Frances Downey, head of research and innovation culture at UKRI, explains the formation of the organisation’s Good Research Resource Hub


‘Where there is hardship, there is hope’


‘It was time for a 23


Kortext founder and CEO James Gray reflects on founding the company, his wider career, and some life-changing moments


fundamental change’


Publisher De Gruyter describes a digital transformation of its business News


Suppliers directory 24 26


A nuisance of narratives from the scholarly communications industry


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Little more than a few years back, the use of video in scholarly communications was seen by some as something of a novelty or even a gimmick. Fast-forward (see what I did


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there?) to the present day, and the use of audio-visual equipment at conferences, seminars – and as a means of discovering and disseminating science – is commonplace. This issue of Research Information features several articles around the use of video, and it’s clear that the technology is here to stay and will become an ever-more important part of academic publishing in years to come. In fact, hybrid conferences are the subject of one of our three CISPC webcasts this year, details of which can be found on page 10 – the other two webcasts will centre on diversity, equity and inclusion, and sustainable development. Free to view and available on catch-up for the next 12 months, the three webcasts on 29 November, 2 December and 6 December feature an array of panellists from around the industry and are not to be missed. It seems barely believable that this is the last issue of the print magazine for the year – another 12 months that has given many of us new challenges, many of them unwelcome. So, with hope that 2022 brings better tidings for all of us, I wish you all the very best for the holiday season and the new year.


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