How AuthorAID offers you the chance to be a mentorAt this time of year, many of us turn our thoughts to how we can make positive changes in our lives and the lives of others. Some of us long to provide practical help and support, but feel we lack the necessary skills or time commitment. For experienced researchers, editors and librarians there is a…

Moving from JustGiving to JustGoing: Reflections from a volunteerDeborah Pentesco-Gilbert is a Wiley colleague who recently travelled to Cameroon with the charity Cricket without Boundaries.  Below, she reflects on her time there and reminds us why it’s important  not just to give, but to get involved. ‘Tis the season where many of us are asked, and indeed many of us dig into our…

A holiday wishlist from our society advisory boardAt a recent meeting of our Society Advisory Board in London, we asked participants what they wanted for the holidays and got some interesting answers!  If you could have anything for the holidays, what would it be? "I never have the right data so would like to have someone in a cupboard in the office when I need data…

Thanks for a great yearWe thought we’d steal a moment to reflect on a great year here at Wiley Exchanges.  Special thanks  to all of our fantastic contributors this year and to you, our readers.  We hope you’ve been enjoying a wonderful holiday season.  Oh, and check back next week to see our top posts of 2014.  

New journals for 2015At Wiley, we greatly value the relationships we build with our society and journal partners, so we are delighted to welcome more than 25 journals to our community in 2015. Many of the journals new to our list are published in conjunction with learned associations or other organizations. We are very pleased to begin our…

Our top 10 posts of 2014Well, we’ve reached the end of a great year and, as promised, present to you our most popular posts published in 2014: 1. Altmetric is now on board for all Wiley journals 2. 5 tips for writing better science papers 3. How and why researchers share data (and why they don’t) 4. A day in…

Ensuring that UK institutions pay just once for research outputSince April 2013, when RCUK and the Wellcome Trust introduced policies and funds for open access, concern has risen that the UK will end up paying twice  for research, and even footing the bill for larger contributors of research output such as the US and China. In an op-ed for The Guardian David Willetts, Minister of…

Recognition for peer review and editing in Australia - and beyond?Following a lively discussion on the challenges of finding peer reviewers and journal editors at a Best Practice Journal Publishing seminar in our Melbourne office earlier this year a group of 40+ Australian Wiley editors recently wrote an open letter to their universities, funders, and other research institutions and organizations in Australia. Highlighting both the benefits…

Helping Early Career Researchers to get peer review rightIn 2013, more than 1.4 million scholarly articles were published in peer reviewed journals. As the rate of scholarly articles published each year increases, so does the pressure on peer review. In the 2009 Sense About Science peer review survey , 67% of respondents felt that formal training of reviewers would improve the quality of reviews. While…

Telling the story behind the retraction: a Q&A with Ivan Oransky Ivan Oransky is a medical journalist, global editorial director of MedPage Today and co-founder of Retraction Watch, a site that tracks and reports on retractions in research journals.  In light of the release of Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics, we were eager to hear more from Ivan on the uptick in retractions, publishing…