Sharing ideas, experience, and best practice in MelbourneThis June, Wiley’s Australian journals team played host to 60 journal editors and partners in Melbourne for multidisciplinary seminars on publication ethics and best-practice journal publishing. Held over two days, these two events brought together clients, colleagues and fellow publishers to discuss journal publication, share thoughts and impart their knowledge on a range of current…

How to produce the best English language version of your paperThere should be no barriers to getting your research published, yet manuscripts are often returned for English language and formatting issues. Wiley English Language Editing Services (ELES) offers authors access to a suite of services to help them prepare their manuscript - making the submission process easier. "My manuscript entitled "Microscopic Polyangiitis associated with Pulmonary…

A day in the life of Microbiology Ph.D. Roopali RajputDr. Vinita Jindal, one of my post-graduate professors, once said, "A Ph.D. is not an easy degree to attain. If it was, then everybody who wants one would have the honor of having one.". While pursuing my five-year career in research, this has become very obvious to me. "Pressure, pressure, pressure, you need to learn…

A CHORUS [time]lineMany of you are probably already familiar with CHORUS - the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States. This not-for-profit, public-private partnership was set up following the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo requiring all federal agencies with R&D budgets of more than $100m to come up with plans to…

Boosting a young democracyBelow is the latest inspiring story from Research4Life’s Unsung Heroes: Stories from the library focused on librarian Shaba Shabana of the Maldives. The Maldives National University recently opened a Postgraduate Research Center that it hopes will become recognized nationally and internationally for quality teaching, scholarship and academic research.  Research4Life is the research platform the University needs to achieve this…

How to promote your research through bloggingWith around 42.6 million new posts each month on WordPress alone, blogging has become a serious marketing and business tool. But why should you, as a researcher and author, spend time creating and writing a blog? After all, your time is precious, and setting up a blog, writing regular posts and gaining followers isn’t necessarily…

How societies can fast-forward their digital strategiesAs previously mentioned, we’ll be covering the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting here this week, and don’t forget to follow @WileySocieties for regular updates from the meeting. Here in Nashville, the ASAE Annual Meeting is in full swing and buzzing with positive energy. The society and association professionals in attendance have a lot on…

Four ways of measuring influenceDue to the recent release of the 2014 Thomson Reuters Journals Citation Reports we’re taking a break from our regular Author Series to reflect on how we measure influence in research today.  Fear not, the Author Series will be back next week.    Although there is an ever-increasing range of tools designed to measure the influence of scholarly communications…

5 key trends in professional publishingOne of the overriding themes of the ASAE conference in Nashville this year was the universal constant: change. From game-changing talks to hands-on learning labs, ideas and solutions abound on how to respond to a changing marketplace and membership base, but also how to proactively and positively implement your own changes. The Learning Lab session, "5…

17 things we learned at ASAE 2014In our final report from the ASAE annual meeting, we share some of what we learned during our time in Music City. Several of us were attending the meeting for the first time and we were all struck by the positive energy and buzz throughout the four days. We came away with fresh insights, new contacts,…