Welcome to Things we read this week, a weekly post featuring articles from around the internet recommended by BMJ’s Digital Group members.
Publishing
- Patient partnerships: what can other journals learn from The BMJ?
- A lovely data visualisation of a database of openly available APC payments
- Adam Kamenetzky and Liz Allen ask how do decisions about what research is valued and what is valuable research get made? Valuing research: Walking a line between open policy and propaganda?
- The future for data driven information products handily summarised by Sam Herbert at ConTecn (H/T: Suzanne Kavanagh)
- A practical roadmap for scholarly publishers to implement data citation in accordance with the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP), a synopsis and harmonization of the recommendations of major science policy bodies: A data citation roadmap for scientific publishers
- Notes from Roger C. Schonfeld on Twitter as ITHAKA president Kevin Guthrie interviews Elsevier chair YS Chi
- CRediT where credit is due
- Patient partnerships: what can other journals learn from The BMJ?
- former Vice CTO asks if it finally time for media companies to adopt a common publishing platform?
- Wiley and RBmedia Announce Audiobook Publishing Partnership “Audiobooks is a format tailor made for the business professional – they can turn commuting and travel time into professional development.”
Academic research and Open Science
- The use of newspapers in academic research is growing, according to a recent study commissioned by ProQuest and conducted by Eric Meyer, Dean of the School of Information at University of Texas at Austin. (H/T: UKSG)
- New course on Eliademy about Open Research Software & Open Source from Jon Tennant
- Frankl reports from the first international Blockchain for Science Conference in Berlin: Can blockchain put the trust back into science?
Innovation
- How Amazon Innovates
“At the heart of how Amazon innovates is its six-page memo, which is required at the start of every new initiative. What makes it effective isn’t so much the structure of the document itself, but how it is used to embed a fanatical focus on the customer from day one. It’s something that is impressed upon Amazon employees early in their careers.”
Around the web
- Opinion piece by Matthew Liao (Philosopher) in the New York Times: Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?
- What data does Amazon have about you? (H/T: Martha Sedgwick @coffeepot)
