Important, groundbreaking research happens across Africa. Yet African scientists and institutions rarely see credit in the world’s most recognized scholarly journals, according to Dr. Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Collaborations, Springer Nature.
“We’ve seen public libraries that have turned into shelters, including some at the cities that are being shelled. And we’ve seen the Ukrainian library community mobilize to combat disinformation,” says Nick Poole.
What lessons does COVID-19 present for publishing? How does copyright hold its own in a world of “open”? Where might innovative business models emerge?
The 2020 Digital Consumer Book Barometer is to be released this week at the virtual Readmagine conference and Digital Publishing Summit.
Journals dominate scientific communications, but they are only one element in a multilayered information-sharing network. Conferences are an especially timely source of breaking news developments in every field.
On May 5, 2020, CCC hosted a virtual town hall for publishers around the world.
“One thing about Indians is that they really work well when it comes to adversity, and that has been the case even across the country when it comes to the crisis, and the way the crisis has been managed by the government,” says Vikas Gupta of Wiley India.
Publishers must maintain clean, reliable metadata for their content, including about authors, institution, license types, and citations.
Over the next several weeks, CCC is delivering a series of virtual programming originally intended for London Book Fair presentations.
PublisHer marks its first birthday in London at the British Library with a March 9th summit of women who have generated positive change in world publishing.