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Oct 16, 2024 | 
elsevier.com | Linda Willems
We take a look at how Elsevier’s open access initiatives are supporting authors globallyFor a number of years now, we’ve been working closely with the research community to develop a range of flexible, inclusive and accessible open access (OA) options for authors. In this article, we take a look at three key focus areas.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
elsevier.com | Linda Willems
We take a look at how Elsevier’s open access initiatives are supporting authors globallyFor a number of years now, we’ve been working closely with the research community to develop a range of flexible, inclusive and accessible open access (OA) options for authors. In this article, we take a look at three key focus areas.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
elsevier.com | Linda Willems
Transformative agreements are increasing steadily in volume and scope as institutions and consortia work with scholarly publishers to achieve their reading and open access (OA) publishing goals. While increasing OA publications is often the major driver for these agreements, librarians have reported reaping other, sometimes unexpected rewards, from raised visibility of their own roles, to a greater understanding of open access on campus.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
elsevier.com | Linda Willems
As part of a broader shift towards responsible and relevant research, researchers and institutions face a growing pressure to produce and promote outcomes with a social dimension. Here are just some of the factors driving that shift. 1. The scale of the global challenges we face today requires researchers to pool resources and ideasFrom climate change to dwindling resources; the effects of these problems are felt worldwide. For many, the key to addressing them is to unite forces.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
elsevier.shorthandstories.com | Alison Bert |Ian Evans |Alex Walker |Linda Willems
In today’s world — as global challenges seem to mount daily as economic resources decline — measuring the impact of research is becoming increasingly important.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
elsevier.com | Linda Willems
The past few years have seen an increasing number of governments, funders and publishers introduce or update policies around the storage, sharing and management of research data records. The 2023 National Institutes of Health revised research data management and sharing (DMS) policy(opens in new tab/window), which introduced the need for applicants to submit a DMS plan, is just one recent example. At many universities, academic libraries play a key role in responding to these policy changes.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
beta.elsevier.com | Linda Willems
New journal and article types are enabling authors to publish elements of their research that previously remained hiddenHow often does the data or software generated during your research project end up stored on your computer, destined never to see the light of day? And what about the transcript of that speech you delivered at a recent conference? For many researchers, once these “research objects” have served their purpose, they lie forgotten, filed away in an online directory.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
beta.elsevier.com | Linda Willems
How do governments select the research evidence they use to guide their policymaking — particularly when responding to a global crisis? The obvious answer is that they draw their inspiration from current or highly cited publications. However, a new study by UCL (University College London) researcher Basil Mahfouz(opens in new tab/window) suggests the process is not so clear cut.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
beta.elsevier.com | Linda Willems
According to Shiji: “Since interdisciplinary research is closely related to applied and societal problems that generally impact the general public, we thought it may receive more attention on social media than specialized research.”Drawing on a variety of analytic approaches, they established that interdisciplinary research does indeed attract more attention than single-discipline research on Twitter and Mendeley — the two channels they analyzed.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
beta.elsevier.com | Linda Willems
Universities strive to deliver research findings that are not only sound and replicable but make a meaningful contribution to society — and the need to demonstrate that impact is more important than ever. This increased emphasis comes from governments, funding bodies and even taxpayers, who all want evidence that the research and teaching contributions of universities are advancing areas of societal importance such as health, the environment and the economy.
