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Don't know how to capture your organisations outcomes? The book I contributed to recently has now had it's chapters made independently available. My chapter details how Noise Solution, as a small arts organisations, has utilised digital tools to solve historic issues in capturing outcomes - in ways that don't 'get in the way' and in fact, actually improve outcomes! There are some real insights in the book from a wealth of fantastic contributors, take a look. Obviously if you do actually want to read it then just email me and I'll send you a copy rather than the paywall version here

Just got off a very insightful, "call to action" discussion moderated by Eelco Fiole with Professor Colin Mayer, author of amongst others, "Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them". https://lnkd.in/d5sMKHeK [From my understanding] the concept takeaways in a nutshell: - purpose of business = "#profitwithoutharm" - differentiate #input and #output vs. #impact and #outcomes - distinguish between #extrinsic and #intrinsic ("profit drives business" - it is intrinsic(!) hence, it must not be treated as an externality) - #ESG "Is not coherent. It is a confusion of cause and effect!" #nudge the #neurons ...#rethink the purpose of business! unlearn #purposeprofit to relearn #profitwithpurpose

📣 The MIT Press is the latest scholarly publisher leveraging #BiblioSuite to improve operational performance, embarking on a transformative project to consolidate six separate systems into one unified, fully-integrated workflow solution. Before BiblioSuite, MIT Press managed their assets, metadata, and complex publishing workflows across six separate systems and databases, leading to a lack of visibility and data-entry duplication that drained internal resources. To overcome these hurdles, the Press consolidated its systems into BiblioSuite’s comprehensive, centralized solution, revolutionizing the full publishing cycle with streamlined workflows, enhanced visibility of data and assets, integrations for every stage of the publishing process, and increased efficiencies companywide. MF (Mary Frances) Gydus, Director of Business Systems & Operations, shared: “Providing our staff with a single source of truth across our entire catalog, Biblio will bring together our books and journals data, assets and workflows for the first time to fully streamline our processes and maximize efficiencies across the company. I’m excited for our migration and can’t wait to see how MITP can fully leverage BiblioSuite’s functionality. It’s going to be great!” Rodney Elder, EVP, North America at Virtusales adds: “We’re excited to welcome the MIT Press to our esteemed community of university presses already leveraging BiblioSuite. This strategic partnership will modernize the Press’ workflows, equipping its teams with the scalable tools they need to adapt to emerging industry trends long into the future.” To find out more about the Press’ ambitious future-proofing project, as well as the BiblioSuite benefits they have unlocked, read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eWZFnDP7 You can also join us for our industry breakout session at the upcoming Society for Scholarly Publishing 46th Annual Meeting in Boston, where we’ll be discussing the project in more detail: https://lnkd.in/eng5YKXc #scholarlypublishing #academicpublishing #publishing #publishingsoftware #SSP2024

If you went into #academia because you believe in expanding knowledge and sharing it with the world, you may be frustrated by the fact that the world is listening to and trusting those who just happen to be the loudest on the biggest digital platform. If you are at the frontier in your field, there are ways to protect your expertise, while also having a voice and channel for sharing it with the world. Read our latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/eT-nQNph #professionaldevelopment #professors #phd

According to the statistic of popularity of my posts, book reviews are not interesting for people on LinkedIn (or I'm very bad in making my book reviews engaging enough). Any way, I wanted to share something, which might be useful not only for book readers, but also for people, who prefer other type of media. A few months ago I subscribed for "O'Reilly Media". I was never a big fan of expensive subscriptions on publishing platform. But they announced early release of the next book by Chip Huyen ("AI Engineering") and this was the only way to get access to it. By the way, totally worth it, I can't wait to see the final version of the book! 🤓 I also discovered that on "O'Reilly Media" platform, you can find almost any book on ML/AI/Data, etc. And plenty of video courses! The biggest surprise is that they regularly host online events with the book authors, where the authors teach concepts discussed in the books and answer questions from the audience! 🥹 Unfortunately it isn't announced much and you need to watch out yourself, which is a pity, because the events are amazing and it's rather rare you have a chance to interact with the book author. I also hope that they will upgrade the platform for hosting events, because it feels like you're traveling back in time and ended up somewhere in the beginning of 2000s. The user-experience has room for improvement, but the content is really great. In the noisy world with strong preference for short formats, this is a great place to get well structured and complete information. So if you have educational budget from your company or simply reading a lot, have a look at O'Reilly. (For the record, they didn't pay me for the ad, I just want to share this gold-mine with the rest of the world)

As a grant writer, I always advised my clients to bring real people into their proposals. Data is important, but it is not always memorable — but turn that data into a story, and you can stand out to jurors. Give Letitia's article a read for some tips on how to make your grant writing memorable to those evaluating your proposal.

Interesting to see that Taylor & Francis have a) received sufficient funding for the first year of their Pledge to Open Pilot and b) are looking to launch a second year with a refreshed model It will be interesting to see the refreshed model as when we assessed this pilot at the University of Salford we decided against pledging as a Library for a number of reasons, despite our significant activity and aspirations in this space. With other major publishers such as OUP with their new Commit to Open initiative looking at developing similar models, requesting library funding, this seems to a new & growing development. Whilst we are always looking to support new forms of OA monograph publishing, for me there are two big issues with this activity from major commercial publishers that need resolving before we would think about supporting & committing financial resource to them. 1) The inherent link between the funding sought and the pricing/costing around their Book Publication Charges (BPC's) from these publishers. As libraries we would want to see see link broken and/or the BPC cost base significantly reduced. 2) Far greater transparency on how BPC costs are actually derived in the first place and what we are actually paying for, beyond factors of reputation, prestige and attempts to introduce a costly monetarisation of Open Access monographs, similar to what we have experienced with journals https://lnkd.in/eChgxTP3

We're glad to see OA monograph subscription funding models getting wider attention; such as from Inside Higher Ed with their new article on The MIT Press's Direct to Open: https://lnkd.in/e7gWwHgX. However, the conclusions seemed a little gloomy from our perspective! After all, MIT's model has been very successful; meanwhile CEU Press Opening the Future has flipped a substantial proportion of the press' frontlist OA since 2021, and continues to do so with an increasing number of new - and renewing - supporters. Subscription models are undeniably gaining momentum both among implementing publishers, and among supporting libraries. While these models may not work for *every* publisher, or type of publisher, they do work and avoid the stress, hardship, and frequent impossibility of sending a huge author-facing bill to a researcher or their supporting institution. If you are a publisher interested in implementing this, please feel free to reach out to us at OpeningTheFuture@copim.ac.uk; as previously covered, we are expanding our community of publishers! For more details on that, please see here: https://lnkd.in/e3HcmDVU

I am delighted to inform you that my paper entitled "The influence of employees’ work-related use of social media on their service innovation behavior: The SOR paradigm" has been #accepted for publication in "Digital Transformation and Society" (EmeraldPublishing, indexed by Scopus). The paper has been #solely authored by me and it will be the #10th journal article I have published since the date of my first publication in 2018. I will share the link of the manuscript as it goes online. It will be an #OpenAccess paper. #Academia #ResearchPaper #Publication

Improving price and service transparency in scholarly publishing is key to building trust. In this article on The Wiley Network our Open Research Director, Leila Moore, reaches out to different stakeholders to find out what better price and service transparency means to them and how we can work together to make things better. https://lnkd.in/ezWYuJbu