Our favorite tweets from ACUKIn December, we attended the Associations Congress in London, following a successful trip to the European version of this event in Paris earlier in the year. With six streams over two days there was a lot to cover and we made use of social media to pass on the most interesting anecdotes. In this post…

Win prizes for sharing your research with the worldYou can now enter your completed or in-progress research in the 5-Minute Science Fair for 2015.   The Science Fair is an opportunity to share your research with the world, and potentially win prizes. For 2015 there will be over $10k in prizes awarded for videos that summarize research in varied disciplines. Currently, discipline-specific prizes are…

5 tips for promoting your research through FacebookLet’s face it; whether you love it or love to hate it, for now, Facebook is here to stay. With 71% of online adults using Facebook, the channel presents a real opportunity for authors and researchers like you, to promote their work, assuming you have the bandwidth to maintain it. However, before you jump headfirst…

All your CHORUS questions answered: a Q&A with Susan SpilkaWe recently spoke to Susan Spilka, Marketing and Communications Director for CHORUS, to learn more about how it works and why it’s worthwhile for publishers and societies to join.  Currently, Wiley supports collection of funding information from the author via our Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS). This information is fed to CrossRef and CHORUS, allowing…

Critical success factors for curriculum developmenteLearning programs are a great way for a society or association to improve its membership benefits by contributing to the continued education of its members or open up new sources of potential revenue, as we wrote about in the last post on eLearning. But once the decision is made to optimize an existing program, or develop…

More factors for a successful curriculumIn yesterday’s post we looked at three major considerations when building a new curriculum. It’s clear that proper planning and needs mapping, combined with excellent project management skills make a recipe for success. In this second post, we focus on another four essential ingredients in the curriculum mix.   The Content The logistical challenges of weaving…

Cooperation not confrontation- how to convince referees and respond to reviewsSome of the most difficult people to convince about new ideas, especially unusual or controversial ones, are experts. In other words, the reviewers who are likely to be peer-reviewing your paper are also those who are likely to be the most skeptical about it. Whether this is an advantage or disadvantage of the peer-review system…

From publisher to published author: a conversation with Vanessa LafayeVanessa Lafaye is Associate Director of Professional Innovations at Wiley and a newly published author of a historical fiction novel set in post WWI Florida.  She spoke to us recently about how she came to write Summertime and what it’s like to be on the flip side of publishing.  Q. Can you tell us about your…

Open access must be open at both endsWhat do Early Career Researchers (ECRs) think of Open Access? Following on from Daniel Amund’s post on the topic for OA Week 2014, another Wiley Advisor Jonathan Foster, winner of last year’s essay competition, shares his perspective. "If I have seen further, it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants". This famous…

Supporting the career enhancement of society and association membersAs we often discuss here, the support and engagement that an association provides to its members throughout the lifecycle of their professional development and careers is extremely important. This week we look through the lens of online recruitment and the benefits this invaluable solution offers to both associations and their members. In this short video…