Using altmetrics and social media for research and networkingToday it’s easy to connect with people around the world and participate in communities of interest. For researchers, there are also many ways to measure the influence of their research. Altmetrics provide a useful tool to identify who is sharing research in your area with his/her own broader communities. The Altmetric score can be considered…

Mining Research4Life for the good of the patientBelow is another installment from the Research4Life publication "Unsung Heroes: Stories from the Library" which shares success stories of librarians from the developing world working together with Research4Life to provide better services to their communities.  Two-term AHILA (Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa) President Nasra Gathoni wasn’t sure she would make a career in Library Sciences…

Hot apps for academicsWith smartphones and tablets now commonplace, apps have quickly become part of our everyday lives, whether they’re keeping us entertained, saving us time or increasing our productivity. But it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the huge number of choices on offer in your device’s app store - after all, some apps are better than others,…

Online purchasing just got easier with the Wiley Online Library BookstoreFor some time there has been a need to develop an online store designed for the use of institutional customers - to facilitate the purchase of our online library products. We were pleased to begin offering this service earlier this year, through the Wiley Online Library Bookstore. The Bookstore provides Institutional and Library Account Administrators…

Innovating open at MozfestIn late October, more than sixteen hundred developers, science buffs, and Open Web advocates converged on the Ravensbourne campus in South-East London to kick off MozFest, a hands-on festival dedicated to envisioning and creating the future of an open, global web. MozFest, now in its fifth year, began as a small, community-driven gathering with an…

Publishing and ethics: what’s all the fuss about?We hope that you and our other readers - editors, scholars, researchers and practitioners from the multidisciplinary communities we serve - are finding the Second Edition  of our publishing ethics guidelines to be even more useful than our First Edition.  These new guidelines are significantly different, and the world is changing rapidly. So we’d love you…

Six powerful ways to market your book on PinterestThere’s no doubt about it — Pinterest is a very popular social networking platform that has millions of rabid fans. But is Pinterest more than just casseroles and wedding dresses? Should you give it a second look as a way to help promote your book? And if you decide to use it for marketing, how…

Holiday gift ideas for your favorite academicFear not, there’s still time to shop for the academic in your life and we’ve got you covered with the gift ideas below. 1. For the Proud Chemist Does the chemist in your life have a favorite element? She can declare it to the world with Element T’s! 2. For the Modern Historian Now your…

Santa’s lessons for societies and associationsYou can blame it on my inner child, but when city sidewalks - busy sidewalks, in fact - are dressed in holiday style, it’s impossible not to let the thrill of the holiday season seep into every aspect of life. And with only a couple of days left until the Big Guy makes his magical,…

Holiday gift ideas for your favorite librarianLast week we shared a list of holiday gift ideas for academics, but we couldn’t stop there, so here we bring you a list for the librarians in your life. And, we need to offer special thanks to librarians Amanda Rust and Hillary Corbett of Northeastern University, who contributed great ideas to this list.   1. …