Key points
- This article marks the publication of the Tenth edition Clark's Publishing Agreements: A book of precedents.
- The growing complexity of traditional assignment agreements is accompanied by researchers’ misunderstanding about their rights.
- There is a shifting balance between assignment and licensing of rights in an author's work.
- Academics continue to agree standard assignment contracts even where they disagree with the principles.
- Publishers are loosening control over copyright in response to demands from funders and a growing minority of researchers.
- There is a complex range of researchers’ attitudes to copyright issues.
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- Accessibility is often misunderstood as a concept that is niche or of secondary importance.
- Reframing accessibility as improving the overall user experience instantly changes the perspective; accessibility becomes a critical requirement worthy of investment and resources.
- The single most prevalent complaint amongst librarians is the time it takes to get hold of accessible content.
- An accessibility roadmap provides structure and transparency for digital accessibility projects within the organization.
- Publishers' non‐compliance with accessibility standards will increase their risk of sales declines and legal complications over time.
- The SAGE A.C.C.E.S.S.I.B.L.E mnemonic offers suggestions on how to devise a successful accessible publishing programme.
- Scientific publication has been a key part of the scientific method since the inception of Philosophical Transactions in 1665.
- The scientific publications industry has grown exponentially along with science, incorporating technological innovations along the way, and adapting journal processes and practices to changing needs of science as it matured.
- Of all the technological innovations over more than 300 years, the move to online journals may be the most significant, making open access to content practical for the first time.
- The open‐access movement is disrupting the economics of journal publishing, which is hoped will make the industry more competitive: the ability of the publications industry to adapt to open access will be a measure of its resilience.
- The demand for articles published in reputable journals continues to grow as readers trust the credibility of peer reviewed journal articles, and good authors value the prestige of publishing in the best journals.
- It is difficult to predict what new functionalities may be included in articles of the future or what additional services publishers and editors will provide, but there is every reason to believe that scientific journal articles are here to stay.
- Digital preservation will never be a solved problem: it needs constant reinvention, and is going to become harder over time.
- Scholarship is changing and this is affecting what needs to be preserved and what preservation means to the future of knowledge discovery.
- The diversification of outputs means that knowledge exists in a network of contextual metadata, data, software, standards and publications—requiring multilateral management of this complex knowledge graph.
- Preservation demands new skills, technologies and resources from librarians, publishers, funders and institutions—and more joined-up thinking about archiving.
Objective:
The research conducted a large-scale, multisite study on the value and impact of library and information services on patient care.Methods:
The study used: (1) 2 initial focus groups of librarians; (2) a web-based survey of physicians, residents, and nurses at 56 library sites serving 118 hospitals; and (3) 24 follow-up telephone interviews. Survey respondents were asked to base their responses on a recent incident in which they had sought information for patient care.Results:
Of the 16,122 survey respondents, 3/4 said that they had definitely or probably handled aspects of the patient care situation differently as a result of the information. Among the reported changes were advice given to the patient (48%), diagnosis (25%), and choice of drugs (33%), other treatment (31%), and tests (23%). Almost all of the respondents (95%) said the information resulted in a better informed clinical decision. Respondents reported that the information allowed them to avoid the following adverse events: patient misunderstanding of the disease (23%), additional tests (19%), misdiagnosis (13%), adverse drug reactions (13%), medication errors (12%), and patient mortality (6%).Conclusions:
Library and information resources were perceived as valuable, and the information obtained was seen as having an impact on patient care.Highlights
- Library and information resources were perceived as valuable, and the information obtained was seen as having an impact on patient care.
- Electronic access to information resources from multiple locations has increased the ability of health professionals to use these resources for improved patient care.
- The roles of librarians are diversifying to include management of electronic resources, user instruction and support, specialized research and clinical information search services, and involvement in institution-level quality improvement.
- It is possible to conduct a large-scale, multisite study on the value and impact of library services on patient care.
Implications
- Ongoing studies of the value and impact of library and information resources will be important for advocacy and quality improvement.
- Community-Based Participative Research methods hold promise as a way of ensuring the relevance of future research.
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- Publishers must think of their websites as marketing tools as well as content delivery systems.
- The five major strategies of content marketing are promotion, personalization, targeting, consumerization, and analysis and optimization.
- Publishers must treat readers as customers, not simply as end users.
- Content marketing is about the environment in which content exists, as well as the form that it takes.
- To compete with pirate sites, publishers need to provide a richer user experience.
- Content marketing benefits authors and readers as well as publishers.
- Readers want the same enjoyable user experience and tailored content on all sites they visit.
- Content marketing can increase site traffic, lengthen visits, boost revenues, thwart piracy, and heighten brand impact.
- The pandemic can be seen as an opportunity to revisit the justification for conferences and how they should be run to avoid elitism, climate impact, and diversity.
- 2020 saw a wealth of different approaches to events, including financing, technologies, scheduling, and the meaning of the term ‘live’.
- Engaging attendees and providing networking opportunities are considered the main obstacle to virtual events, but can social networking lessons help resolve – or even improve – this?
- It may take some time for online event programming to achieve the right balance of flexibility versus ‘buzz’ to meet a conference's key objectives: knowledge sharing and peer interaction.
- Live broadcasting is on the rise, but the on‐demand video model is gaining popularity as it ensures high‐quality presentation recordings and consistency of experience.
- Over time, technical challenges of online meetings will resolve, with competition leading to more reasonable pricing, customers becoming savvier, and vendors learning from experience.
- Inclusive language will make scholarly publishing more accurate and more respectful, and it has the potential to help authors reach a wider audience.
- JAMA and the JAMA Network journals, the American Chemical Society and the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications have free guides on inclusive language, formatting and images.
- The guides provide principles and rationale, as well as examples of preferred language, in order to equip people with knowledge to choose the most inclusive words even as terminology preferences change.
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- The number of printed book reviews in the social sciences is currently declining.
- The number of online book reviews is currently increasing.
- There are ways of measuring the impact of book reviews so that they can be included in research assessment exercises.
Key points
- Discoverability is no longer just about technology.
- There is a shift towards a culture of discovery.
- Coordinated efforts successfully create impact resonance.
- The author is the conductor of impact.
- Today, everybody needs to take responsibility for creating impact.
- The current BMJ is a far cry from the 1995 ‘brochureware’ site.
- Journals need to be flexible in their delivery mechanisms to meet user needs.
- Online publishing provides an opportunity to extend the target readership.
- Responding to user demands to be balanced against proactive development.
- Not everything works, but it is better to be innovating than overly cautious.
Key points
- A more general and continuous form of ‘A short history of SHELX’ phenomenon has been found.
- The Review of Particle Physics (RPP) series, which is called the bible in the particle physics field, is highly cited by other research papers.
- The RPP phenomenon is found in different journals and is affected by the host journal's impact factor and publication size.
- The RPP phenomenon provides a big or small, but temporary, boost to its host journal's impact factor.
Objectives:
This research studied hospital administrators'' and hospital-based health care providers'' (collectively, the target group) perceived value of consumer health information resources and of librarians'' roles in promoting health information literacy in their institutions.Methods:
A web-based needs survey was developed and administered to hospital administrators and health care providers. Multiple health information literacy curricula were developed. One was pilot-tested by nine hospital libraries in the United States and Canada. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to evaluate the curriculum and its impact on the target group.Results:
A majority of survey respondents believed that providing consumer health information resources was critically important to fulfilling their institutions'' missions and that their hospitals could improve health information literacy by increasing awareness of its impact on patient care and by training staff to become more knowledgeable about health literacy barriers. The study showed that a librarian-taught health information literacy curriculum did raise awareness about the issue among the target group and increased both the use of National Library of Medicine consumer health resources and referrals to librarians for health information literacy support.Conclusions:
It is hoped that many hospital administrators and health care providers will take the health information literacy curricula and recognize that librarians can educate about the topic and that providers will use related consumer health services and resources.Highlights
- Health care providers responded positively to a health information literacy curriculum offered by librarians and to related resources and services, namely MedlinePlus and the information referral system known as Information Rx.
- Participation in a curriculum increased health care providers'' knowledge of health information literacy, awareness of available consumer health information, and referral of patients to the library for additional assistance.
- Librarian involvement in health information literacy increased the profession''s visibility and perceived value.
Implications
- Consumer health information services and resources offered by librarians can improve the health information literacy skills of health care providers and their patients.
- Training by librarians can increase knowledge of the importance of health information literacy and usage of MedlinePlus and Information Rxs.
- Hospital-based administrators and health care providers can be champions in support of health information literacy and consumer health information services offered by libraries.
- The enormous amount of scientific data produced each second will make it difficult to analyze them.
- In near future, a universal AI-based (UniAI) system with ready access to a collective database will be formed to analyze the gigantic amount of data being created.
- There will be no ready articles, no scientific journal, no indexing system, no peer review, no research or publication ethical concerns, and no editor.
- UniAI, a self-organized self-sufficient AI system will assume most part of the research and its publication.
(1)?Explain the four fundamental elements of Cohen’s framework for creating memorable anecdotes.
(2)?Identify the four elements of Cohen’s framework in sample scientific presentations.
(3)?Provide examples of how to apply Cohen’s framework to communicate complex information.
(4)?Identify one or two complex concepts in their subject area that would benefit from a narrative approach.
(5)?(Optional) Use Cohen’s framework to create a narrative relevant to their subject area.
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Understand the importance of effective health campaign material design and the potential problems and implications of ineffective health campaign materials,
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Evaluate health campaign materials for clarity and readability, and
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Design effective health campaign materials that are clear and readable for the lay person.