Behind the Fluff

A steady increase in spending on research and development in China over the past decade is producing an active and rapidly growing research environment. We've pulled together some of the latest research and publications highlighting the real-world impact of China's increased investment in research.

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Hi this is Lou Peck from The International Bunch and I’m going to talk to you about why peer review is important in under 60 seconds. 

Peer review has played an essential role since ancient Greece, and is the backbone to the article publishing process, and ensures high-quality research is published.  

Upon submission, the paper is reviewed by the editorial office to assess originality, validity, and significance. If the editorial team is satisfied, industry peers (or assigned experts) review the paper, and decide whether to accept or reject it – generally there is feedback to make modifications as part of acceptance. It is quite common for peer reviewers to do this work voluntarily. 

Here are six common types of peer review: 

1. Single-blind 

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Recently, we held a thought-provoking strategy session with a university library to see how they could highlight their impact and value in their institution.

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In this final post in the OA monograph series, Megan is going to talk about the challenges facing OA monograph publishers, and look at some of the innovative activity going on to address these challenges and make the most of the current publishing landscape.

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Hi this is Lou Peck from The International Bunch and I’m going to talk to you about what is a DOI in under 60 seconds.

DOI stands for digital object identifier and is a unique number assigned by a registration agency (for example doi.org) to a range of different content. It provides a persistent URL to online content.

Like ORCID provides researchers with a unique ID, DOIs provide a unique ID for published content.

Publishers assign DOIs to content as part of the publishing process and they do this through services like CrossRef.

DOIs start with a 10 and contain a prefix and suffix. The prefix is unique to the organization assigning it (for example the publisher or repositories like figshare).

You’ll find DOIs used in citations and by a number of services like Kudos and Altmetric to expose article metadata and show altmetrics relating to the article to demonstrate impact.

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Open access options for monograph publishing have been growing in significance since the Wellcome Trust released their 2013 open access (OA) policy which expanded requirements ‘to include all scholarly monographs and book chapters written by its grant holders as part of their Trust-funded research’ (Wellcome Trust, 2013). These requirements were taken into account during the consultation carried out by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in 2017 (Research England, 2017) and have informed the move towards requiring OA monographs for the post-2021 REF.

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Science and academic research still isn’t communicated and disseminated to audiences beyond academia as much or as well as it might be.

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