Blogs and case studies
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Librarian Spotlight: An interview with Just de Leeuwe
Thanks to Just de Leeuwe, Publishing and Open Access Advisor at TU Delft Library, Netherlands, for agreeing to take part in our Librarian Spotlight interview series. “Don’t be so modest, because library employees have a lot of knowledge. Show it!” I was trained and graduated as an economic historian where structuring and analyzing data are […]
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What is the future of book publishing?
Head of ebooks, David McDade looks back at ten years of IOP ebooks publishing and reviews the highs and lows of launching a brand new books programme. It’s 2013 and the UK is still in the afterglow of the 2012 Olympics, scientific breakthroughs are being made across the globe, including at the incredible IceCube South Pole […]
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Transformative agreements: making universal access to research a reality
“It’s not if, but how – open access is the future of scholarly publishing, yet the debate on how to accelerate its growth continues,” writes Julian Wilson, Sales and Marketing Director at IOP Publishing in a blog first published by Research Information. IOP Publishing has been an open access (OA) publisher for more than 20 […]
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Can offering choice to researchers reduce researcher bias?
High-quality peer review has never been more important to validate the science we publish. With research integrity regularly hitting the headlines, especially since the COVID pandemic, publishers and reviewers play a pivotal role in ensuring robust, reliable research gets published, and flawed works do not. The backbone for upholding integrity is peer review, where experts in […]
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Increasing confidence and trust in research: cracking down on misconduct
Author: Kim Eggleton, IOP Publishing’s Research Integrity and Inclusion Manager According to Retraction Watch, a website which keeps tabs on research papers withdrawn from scientific journals, from the millions of papers published every year, about 30,000 retractions have been added to the Retraction Watch database. This number is expected to rise dramatically as research misconduct becomes […]
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How double anonymous breaks the bias in peer review
By Kim Eggleton, Research Integrity & Inclusion Manager at IOP Publishing The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day (8th March) is ‘Break the Bias’, highlighting the fact that – whether deliberate or unconscious – bias can prevent women from moving ahead. As the #BreakTheBias campaign states: “knowing that bias exists isn’t enough, action is […]
