Patents and the Intellectual Property Rights Ecosystem at Indian Universities
India aims to grow as a knowledge economy, and this goal cannot be achieved without nurturing innovation and creating a strong intellectual property (IP) ecosystem. Intellectual property rights (IPR) are particularly important because they enable the protection of innovative ideas ...
5 Action Points for Publishers to Improve Environmental Sustainability
Sustainability is a globally crucial issue. Non-sustainable human activities have caused some frightening changes in the world, making it clear that all people and industries have a role to play in improving sustainability. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...
Building an Academic Brand in China: The Importance of Baidu
China has been actively integrated into the global scientific community and is a critical player in the world research market, overtaking even the US in research output. Consequently, many international publishers and journals are interested in expanding their presence in ...
Science for Peace and Development: How Research Societies Can Leverage ...
One of the key activities of scholarly societies, beyond creating and disseminating knowledge through print and digital avenues and interactive means (e.g., conferences), is advocacy efforts. Advocacy means representing, promoting, upholding, or defending an interest or opinion. Advocacy areas often ...
How Academic Societies Are Meeting the Mental Health Needs of ...
Recent evidence suggests that mental health issues are becoming more prevalent among researchers in academia. One review study suggested that the amount of job-related stress under which researchers work has increased significantly due to a greater emphasis on productivity and ...
How Openness in Science Can Drive Climate Justice: Views from ...
International Open Access Week 2022 focused on climate justice. Climate justice includes unrestricted access to climate research, free of paywalls or other boundaries. This kind of access is particularly important to researchers in low-income countries (which are disproportionately affected by ...
Working with Researchers for Open Access Publishing: Industry Experts from ...
To celebrate International Open Access Week this year, we’ve invited several leaders from the publishing community to share their views. In this video, Stephanie Veldman (Head of Open Research, Brill) and Dominique De Roo (Vice President, Global Marketing, Brill) share ...
Creating Customized Content Packages: Tips for Societies and Publishers
Research societies play many critical roles in research as advocates for researchers, as resources for the latest findings and standards, and as organizers of conferences and public health programs. However, many societies have felt funding pressures recently. Research societies have ...
The role of publishing initiatives in promoting climate justice: An ...
International Open Access Week 2022, celebrated in October, was based on the theme Open for Climate Justice. In this interview, Rachel Martin, Global Director of Sustainability at Elsevier, shares with Mriganka Awati, Senior Writer, Editage Insights, her opinions on how ...