Scholarly and Research Communication
volume 10 / issue 1 / 2019
Rowland Lorimer
Editor, SRC
Monique Sherrett
Boxcar Marketing
Rowland Lorimer is Editor of Scholarly Research and Communication. Email: lorimer@sfu.ca
Monique Sherrettis founder of Boxcar Marketing. Email: lbcollister@pitt.edu
Scholarly and Research Communication (SRC) is pleased to publish two very different articles on the general field of altmetrics. The first is an analysis of the activities of a very interesting company called Digital Science by a most informed and perceptive journal publishing professional and analyst, Kent Anderson. Anderson is a former publisher of a variety of prestigious journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine. He is also a past president of the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) in the United States. During his time as president of the SSP, he founded the blog The Scholarly Kitchen and contributed to it frequently over the years. He founded and is CEO of the start-up RedLink, a company that helps both librarians and publishers see usage details, and he founded Caldera Publishing Solutions. Currently, he maintains an e-newsletter called “The Geyser: Hot Takes and Deep Thinking.” While many journals are aware of at least some of Digital Science’s initiatives, SRC thought that it could provide a useful service by obtaining a third-party description of its various initiatives and how they knit together. Who better to ask than Anderson? His article is a tribute to his knowledge, energy, and insight.
The second article, written by Ashley Taylor (Archivist) and Lauren Collister (Director of Scholarly Communications and Publishing at the University of Pittsburgh), deals with the value that can be added to the digital archives of scholarly publications beyond their primary role, especially in science, which can be measured in citations and the contribution an article makes to discourse in the field. It reveals, by means of some telling examples, how archivists have increased the interactions of users with archives by contributing to ongoing conversations that touch on their collections. It is well worth a read.
CISP Press
Scholarly and Research Communication
Volume 10, Issue 1, Article ID 1006339, 2 pages
Journal URL: www.src-online.ca http://doi.org/10.22230/src.2019v10n1a339
Received January 14, 2019, Accepted January 14, 2019, Published January 31, 2019
Lorimer, Rowland & Sherrett, Monique. (2019). Editorial. Special Issue: Altmetrics. Scholarly and Research Communication, 10(1): 1006339, 2 pp.
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