Contents iResearchnformation Spring 2023 l Issue 123 COVER STORY:


‘Born in India, but for the world’ Vivek Mehra describes the foundation of Vikramshila, which aims to “embrace academics of all nations”


Searching for the right ebook 24 ‘We’ve come a long way


in a few years’ Alan Maloney talks all things UX after winning OpenAthens’ best publisher user experience award this year


UKRI’s open access policy,


business models The rapid adoption of ebooks in recent years has led to greater scrutiny of pricing models, writes David Stuart


COUNTER: more than just


subscription metrics Twenty years after its launch, the latest update to the COUNTER Code of Practice is about to go live. Research Information speaks to some of its volunteers


Granular stats drill deeper


into content usage Libraries can get more granularity from COUNTER reports, while community- agreed standards help protect privacy, says Rob Scaysbrook


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one year on Caren Milloy outlines the policy’s impact and the work that made it happen


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A vision of increased citations 20 Fabricio Pamplona explores the advantages of publishing visual abstracts alongside research papers


Improving image integrity 12


in academic research Dror Kolodkin-Gal explains how image integrity issues occur, their consequences and how to prevent them


Jisc assets report will


drive collaboration Bringing together the views of 15 major stakeholders from the UK research community


Unpicking Subscribe to Open 14 Tricia Miller and Andrea Lopez explain how the model benefits everyone in the scholarly community


The potential of open


education resources Kamran Kardan asks: what is the future for OERs and how is the industry taking account of them?


‘Efficiency is the buzzword 16


future of book publishing? David McDade looks back at 10 years of ebook publishing and reviews the highs and lows of launching a book programme


INTERVIEW: What is the 21


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NEWS: A mustering of missives 26 from the scholarly communications industry


for libraries today’ Victoria Suslak explores the various choices that libraries have when acquiring content


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