Human beings are very visual creatures, so it shouldn’t be surprising that online content has become so image-focused in recent years. Trends in website design have also put visuals at the top of the priority list with parallax scrolling becoming one of the most...
Selections from the ACI Blog
Author: Susan Gunelius
As a creative outlet, discourse catalyst, and distribution outlet to reach new and expanded audiences, scholars have been reaping the benefits of blogging for years. Scholarly blogging really started picking up steam back in 2010, and at the time, Sara Kjeilberg, a...
Gigaom was founded in 2006 by Om Malik and grew to be one of the leading blogs in the world. With 6.4 million readers per month, you’d think Gigaom was a success story that would go down in history, but things change quickly in the world of online publishing. Om...
Scholarly publishers already know that digital publishing and social media have changed scholarly research workflows and affected the impact of research. Scholarly presses also recognize that technology has caused a sea change in the scholarly publishing industry....
Advances in scholarly communications have significantly changed the research workflow, particularly in the past decade with the huge volume of technology tools that have launched to aid the process. No longer are scholars dependent on traditional channels to develop...
The University Ranking by Academic Performance Research Laboratory ranks 2,000 colleges and universities around the world based on quantity and quality of its scholarly publications. Specifically, the ranking is based on six key performance indicators: number of...
In an analysis of online mentions of over 2.5 million medical and health sciences-related scholarly documents, Altmetric found that the share of scholarly papers that are mentioned through social media, online news media, social bookmarking, online video, scientific...
Hashtags are an important part of content discovery, so it makes sense that they’re equally important for content promotion. In simplest terms, a tweet that is published and shared using a targeted hashtag has one additional way for people to find it than the...
A new study from Pew Research Center, How Scientists Engage the Public, shows that the number of scientists who use social media and blogs to communicate with audiences is growing. According to the report, which surveyed 3,748 American-based scientists connected with...
Are you matching your content creation and publishing efforts to the behaviors of your mobile audience? You should be because more people are consuming online content using their mobile devices every day. That means not only does your content need to be formatted and...