Information School News

Professor Stephen Pinfield, Dr Simon Wakeling and Professor Peter Willet have had a blog published on the major global publisher blog 'Scholarly Kitchen', summaring a recent article published from the Open-Access Mega-Journals project . You can read the blog post here. The blog discusses article commenting and community reviewing in the context of OAMJs. Scholarly Kitchen, established by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), is a moderated and independent blog helping to fulfil SSP's mission to 'advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking.'

Congratulations to Dr Stephen Pinfield and Professor Peter Willet , both of the Information School, who have secured funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for the project “Open -access mega-journals and the future of scholarly communications". The project will be led by Dr Pinfield as Principal Investigator. Professor Willet, along with Claire Creaser and Jenny Fry of Loughborough University, will be Co-Investigators. The project will commence in November 2015 and run to October 2017. Find out more about the project here.