The ABC of Sales: Psychology before Process

Before we get started, no – it’s not Always Be Closing. This isn’t Glengarry Glen Ross, and if your sales director or CEO thinks it is and seems…

Moving from Ideas to Implementation: Highlights of the 2025 Researcher to Reader Workshop on Peer Review Innovation

First published in CSE Science Editor: Alves T, De Boer J, Ellingham A, Hay E, Leonard C. Moving from ideas to implementation: highlights of the 2025 Researcher to…

How to Build a Useful Idiot

Beware of the charismatic w*****s! At the start of my career in publishing, as a campus sales rep touring universities in the north of England in the mid-1990s,…

Say Hello to TOM

Lately, there have been lots of well-researched, insightful and technologically rigorous pieces on AI in the scholarly publishing industry. This isn’t one of them. The starting point for…

APE 2025: Conversations on Community, Context and Capital

With the holidays fading into the distance and huge political uncertainty on the (very) near horizon, it was great to start the year at the 20th anniversary Academic…

Reasons to have been grateful, cheerful (and fearful) in 2024

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2024 Co-chairing the Peer Review Innovations workshops at the Researcher to Reader conference in London last February, and having our review published in the June 2024…

The Limits of ‘Free’

This post is in my capacity as Growth Director with Kriyadocs. There is an old, somewhat clichéd Yorkshire saying: “you don’t get owt for nowt”. Which of course…

Do Your Research

Those of you in the UK, or who like me can watch British TV despite being fortunate enough not to actually live there at the moment*, may be…

Peer Review Innovations at Researcher to Reader 2024 – Insights and Ideas

Authors and workshop facilitators Tony Alves1, Jason De Boer2, Alice Ellingham3, Elizabeth Hay4, Christopher Leonard5 1 HighWire Press, 2 De Boer Consultancy and Kriyadocs, 3,4 Editorial Office Limited,…

The view from behind the stage curtain

Conferences are the lifeblood of many industries, and scholarly publishing is no different. They provide opportunities for learning, networking, catching up with old friends and making new ones….