Today marks the start of Open Access Week 2015, and it seems like an appropriate time to reflect on some milestones from the last year, and also look ahead to the future.
We've launched several new open access journals over the past year, bringing our total of fully open access journals to 54, with 8 more expected to launch or convert from subscription to open access by the beginning of 2016. Advanced Science, part of the recognized Advanced Materials journal family, launched in December 2014 and publishes premium research from all areas of science. We were recently pleased to announce the launch of our newest open access journal, Global Challenges. This unique journal is dedicated to creating a global, collaborative community to deliberate some of the modern world's greatest challenges, bringing together science, technology and the social sciences to identify viable solutions to ensure that research informs policy. Watch the launch video here.
New and existing society partnerships afforded us new opportunities to publish several new open access journals on behalf of these partners. This includes the Journal of Interdisciplinary Nanomedicine from the British Society for Nanomedicine, Ecosphere and Ecosystem Health and Sustainability from The Ecological Society of America (joining January 2016), and FEBS Open Bio from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (also joining January 2016).
Earlier this year, we announced a policy to adjust subscription prices for any shift from subscription-funded articles to pay-to-publish open access articles. UK library consortium Jisc Collections has partnered with us to pilot offsetting agreements for articles published on an open access basis. The pilot agreement gives institutions funding both subscription and open access publication charges credits to be used on article publication charges.
With the ever increasing number of policies and mandates for open access, we've worked to simplify the process of compliance for our authors through the creation of various tools. Our new Open Access Policy Finder enables authors to check the details of their Funder or Institution's open access policy, as well as to determine whether their payments are covered by one of our 69 Wiley Open Access Accounts. Our green and gold open access navigation maps guide authors through the open access publishing route, depending on their funder requirements.
As the adoption of open access continues to increase, we've seen several funders announce new policies for research they fund. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's recently announced Open Access policy requires funded authors to publish under the most recent version of the CC-BY license. As of January 1, 2017, papers funded by Gates must be openly available immediately with no embargo period. Gates-funded authors can comply with the new policy when publishing in the majority of journals in Wiley's open access program (including OnlineOpen) which offer authors the opportunity to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY license.
Wiley has rolled out a new Funder Picker tool, using FundRef, an initiative of CrossRef.org. This allows authors to provide us with information on the funder(s) supporting their research during the manuscript submission process, and will minimize the time authors have to spend on administrative tasks around funding compliance and self-archiving further down the publication process.
Wiley sends all appropriate gold open access articles to PubMed Central. With green open access Wiley supports its authors by posting the accepted versions of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance by the journal. Beginning this September we are fully automating this process so it's more efficient, with less room for error. Our systems will automatically select and convert articles into the correct format and send them to PubMed Central, providing a better service to authors and the funders supporting the research.
Wiley is a founding member of CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States). CHORUS was established to assist authors receiving funding from US Federal Government agencies in complying with Public Access mandates. CHORUS saves authors the administrative burden of self-archiving by ensuring that their manuscript is made available on Wiley Online Library after an embargo period.
Through CHORUS, we currently support authors funded by the US Department of Energy (USDoE), and Smithsonian Institution by making the accepted version of your article freely available on Wiley Online Library 12 months after publication online, in accordance with the Public Access Plan. We expect other agencies to follow in the next 12 months, with a number of governments around the world interested in exploring future opportunities with CHORUS.
Our focus is on improving communication, understanding and transparency of research by making its wider outputs- data, code and other artefacts- openly available. Our first step is to migrate data from supplemental material to a central position in research articles. We already support very successful data sharing efforts with the Dryad Digital Repository and recently announced a partnership with figshare that will make it easy for authors to upload data and associated materials during familiar manuscript submission, review and publication processes. As a consequence of these and future repository integrations, data, code and other information are made freely available under a CC0 license in repositories suited to that content. Wiley will support the service by introducing new data sharing requirements to many of our journals and by including a new 'data accessibility' statement in articles so that readers can easily find the openly available research materials and authors can demonstrate that they have complied with journal or funder requirements.
Wiley is a big supporter of ORCiD, a unique identifier that ensures an author's work is unambiguously attributed and discoverable by all, and through our partnership with Kudos, we give authors tools to measure, monitor and maximize the impact of their research. The Altmetric service has been introduced across our journals so that the wider impact of the articles we publish is visible, and we are one of very few publishers engaged in a pilot with Publons to give researchers credit for their peer review activity. We will continue to add policy and publishing innovations that contribute to greater openness and recognition, and dig a bit deeper into this area in this blog post.
• Alternative Open Access Publishing Models: Exploring New Territories in Scholarly Communication, Brussels on 12 October 2015.
With more than 700K registered global users and more than 1.3MM visits in 2014, our Author Services site is at the forefront of the author experience. We are pleased to announce that a new design is currently in the works and is expected to launch early in 2016. The new Author Services will further improve the author experience, including a better visual look and feel, easier, faster navigation and improved performance.
We are working closely with our society partners and leading thinkers in open research on defining the semantic, data-enriched article of the future; where tables, figures, data and narrative are collated and stored as structured data using open web standards for markup that allows us to ingest and store content in semantically described micro-formats.
Our recent initiatives culminate to fulfill one defining mission: To increase the reach and breadth of quality scholarly content. We continue to strive to improve the author experience with the hopes of creating dynamic opportunities for future collaborations.
Each year there are hundreds of library conferences covering a variety of topics. They give librarians across the world a chance to meet each other and share their ideas. While they benefit all librarians, they are of special value to early career librarians.
I recently spoke to Emma O'Hagan about her experience as an early career medical librarian at Western Michigan University. Her insights revealed just how important conferences can be to early career librarians.
One of the overarching themes in Emma's responses was the chance conferences give librarians to step out of the bubble of their own libraries. Early in their careers, they may only have experience working at one library or one type of library.
"It's easy early in your career to do things exactly like other people in your library," Emma said. "I mimicked my fellow reference librarians and their instruction styles pretty heavily in the first year or two. You need someone to guide you, but there comes a point where you have to start thinking about what works best for you. I think that's one of the main reasons to attend conferences early in your career, you can see how other people are doing things.
Of course, vendors often unveil their latest products and services at conferences. "At Charleston I always seem to learn about a great new product. Browzine, Altmetric, Kudos, Mendeley, I think I got my first look at all of these in Charleston." said Emma "Even if isn't something we're not going to use at my library, I still want to know about it." No matter what technologies their libraries use, conferences keep librarians current with industry trends.
Despite all of the benefits of conferences, it can be difficult to obtain funding to attend and costs add up quickly. "I've been lucky to work at libraries where there's been enough funding for me to attend at least one conference per year," said Emma, but this is not the case for all early career librarians. If there is funding available, it may only be for a local or state conference instead of the more popular national conferences.
In order to show our support of the library community and make it possible for more early career librarians to attend conferences, Wiley has launched the first ever Wiley Scholarship for Early Career Librarians. The scholarship is a $1,500 reimbursement grant that early career librarians can use towards attending ALA Midwinter, ER&L, MLA, SLA, or ALA Annual.
The competition is open to all academic and research librarians in the first five years of their career. This can also include Library and Information Science students who are working towards their Master's Degree in the field.
To apply, you must answer a short questionnaire and upload a résumé or CV along with an interview you conduct with an academic or research librarian. Applicants must think of five to seven questions to ask about the changing role of librarians. We encourage you to present the interview in a creative format. From written transcript to podcast to video, we will accept all submissions.
To learn more and apply to the Wiley Scholarship for Early Career Librarians, visit our website. We look forward to receiving your submissions and learning about your library!
The supervisor/student relationship is not always a happy story. Running supervision and doctoral student workshops in several countries, I hear of as many problematic relationships and derailed (at least temporarily) supervisor/student research journeys as I do successful ones.
Postgraduates and supervisors speak of: lack of direction, unclear expectations at the start of the PhD journey, neglect and absence, lacking, unclear or personally damaging feedback on work, lack of challenge and confirmation of achievement, lack of support for writing development.
Establish what kind of a relationship it is and make it work. This is a personal/professional relationship that could last from three years onwards and, if you decide to be an academic researcher beyond the PhD, you could be co-writing, co-researching and co-delivering at conferences well after gaining your PhD. Should you work in business, science or the public sector, you might seek out your supervisor as a consultant. These academic working relationships have the potential to be fruitful, enjoyable, intellectually demanding and rewarding.
Initiate discussions about how the supervisory relationship will work in practice and what is expected of you as a doctoral student. This includes discussing regularity of supervision, location, timing, pre-work, staged work, accessibility, when and where you meet, and what work to send in advance. Develop an agenda for discussing work and let your supervisor know how helpful it would be if constructive feedback is returned before you meet. Set up clear schedule expectations and ask them when they are happy to be contacted about small issues, quick questions or longer conceptual or institutional issues. If your supervisor initiates these structure relations and clarifies expectations and responsibilities, that's excellent. If he/she does not, then you need to politely initiate and seek clarification, so that once the structure and expectations are in place, you can get on with the work.
Not everyone who supervises doctoral students is naturally oriented towards close nurturing and managing structured relationships, the ones which I believe work best. Some researchers and academics who become supervisors are very focused on their own research work, quite shy personally, and unaccustomed to the organized, managed, and stimulating behaviors needed in successful supervision. My advice in these scenarios is to try and work out what kind of supervisor(s) you have, so you can learn when to prompt, ask questions, and share personal information. If you have more than one supervisor (which is now common) ideally they should work as a team, and together you all can decide whether you should be supervised by both together or separately. Some advisors might not work well together, so if you find yourself caught between contradictory advice, ask for clarification without setting one against the other.
Doctoral research learning has its own behaviors, interactions and language which need to be recognized and managed. You will be expected to think critically and develop ideas. You need to listen, question, analyze, and communicate in the form of a theorized, evidence-based argument in spoken and written form.
For students from learning cultures which differ from that of the supervisor, or the institution, such clarification and established ways of interacting are even more essential. Sometimes assertiveness, politeness, deference, confusion with 'insider' research language, expectations of researchers, and cultural and institutional norms which differ from your own can lead to awkward miscommunications.
If you don't understand a term or the expectations of pieces of work, ask. If you do not fully understand different behaviors and expectations, ask your supervisor, and ask other students. All students, and particularly those from another culture from that of the supervisor or the institution, can spend a long time puzzling over terms, behaviors, and expectations, seek clarity, ask and work it out together.
Much can be made manageable if interactions and expectations are all made clear. Ask for models of successful work, obviously don't copy them, but look at the structuring of the work, the way argument, theory, story, evidence, and data are woven in to a written thesis to make a case for the ways this work makes a contribution to knowledge. Identify how the use of literature works in a dialogue with the new work, the ways in which methodology and method are argued for, and the ways in which other students deal with problems and develop writing rhythms.
You are not just dependent on your own supervisor. Entering a research journey is also about entering a world-wide research community. Your supervisor is the first point of contact, but you also can talk in person or online with other students, people who write in your field, other researchers and with university services such as the library staff. Many problems can be solved if you talk to others who have been researching in the university community a little longer than you. While there should be a clear strategy of working with your supervisors at the start of your research journey, other communities could be essential should things go wrong. Both the formal institutional system and the informal research learning community are there to augment the support provided by a supervisor. Make the most of research groups, informal study opportunities, or people you meet at conferences who are working in similar areas.
Many students experience issues with supervisors even if the supervisors are unaware they are contributing to problems. Issues range from the over attentive supervisor to the 'absent' supervisor who rarely directs or engages with your work. As an increasingly autonomous researcher, you will need to develop a clear sense of where your work is going, what help you need, how to manage your own research and writing as well as your supervisor. Hopefully you will get this professional relationship right and your research work and life will run as smoothly as possible.
Wisker, G (2012) The Good Supervisor . London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Since its inauguration in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been the pinnacle of lifetime accomplishments, awarding in the fields of chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, physics, economics, literature and peace. The coveted honor recognizes those who have devoted their life to bettering the scientific and educational landscape. At Wiley, where the dissemination of quality research is at the company's core, we are dedicated to valuing our authors who strive to uphold these ideals.Besides groundbreaking achievements, what do six of this year's Nobel Prize laureates have in common? They've served as authors for Wiley books and journals.
Wiley is grateful for the opportunity to publish so many exceptional researchers, and we are very proud to have these laureates as part of our author community.
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Dr. Tomas Lindahl, Professor Paul Mordrich, and Professor Aziz Sancar for discovering multiple DNA repair processes.
Originally from Sweden, Dr. Tomas Lindahl's is currently the Emeritus group leader at the Francis Crick Institute and the Emeritus director of the Clare Hall Laboratory, both of Hertfordshire in the UK. Lindahl's experience with Wiley spans over four decades, when he first published an article in the European Journal of Biochemistry in 1971. His article, Base Excision Repair, was featured in the comprehensive Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine, which describes a process cited as part of his Nobel Prize work.
After studying at the Istanbul University of Turkey and gaining his PhD at the University of Texas, Dr. Sancar now serves as the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina. Sancar has written extensively for the Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology, offering insight on DNA repair , recombinational repair, base excision repair and more. More recently, he co-authored an article, DNA Damage: Repair in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology.
This year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Professor William C. Campbell and Professor Satoshi Ōmura for their work combatting infections caused by roundworm parasites and to Professor Youyou Tu for her discoveries in novel therapy against Malaria.
The Emeritus Professor at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, Professor William C. Campbell's research is primarily focused on parasitology and chemotherapy of parasitic infections. Satoshi Ōmura, inaugural Max Tishler Professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan University, is known for his research in Bioorganic Chemistry. Campbell used one of Ōmura's bacteria cultures to discover a new antiparasitic compound.
Campbell's antiparasitic work has been published in Medicinal Research Reviews. Ōmura has coauthored a number of Wiley articles, most recently for The European Journal of Organic Chemistry .
Professor Takaaki Kajita and Professor Arthur B. McDonald are the joint recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Their revolutionary experiments prove that neutrinos have mass, which contradicts the Standard Model of particle physics.
Professor McDonald was the author of the article Future Solar Neutrino Experiments published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Science awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences to Professor Angus Deaton. Deaton is recognized "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare". Listen to his reaction to the news here.
Deaton is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he has been teaching since 1983. His research is credited with transforming the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics and development economics. Deaton has written for three Wiley journals about topics ranging from cash transfers to the elderly in South Africa to empirical microeconomics.
Last week, Dr. Johannes Spinnewijn of London School of Economics was named by the British Academy and Wiley as the winner of the 2015 Wiley Prize, awarded for academic excellence in the field of economics, in particular his research in current and topical policy.
Also last week, Dr. Peter Fonagy of University College London was awarded a lifetime achievement award from Wiley and the British Academy for his numerous contributions to the field of psychology.
We recently had the chance to ask them a few questions about these achievements.
Q. How and why did you decide to pursue the study of economics?
A.My choice for economics has been rather practical. My topical interests were mostly in humanities, but I wanted to do something mathematical in its approach, so I ended up studying economics as a compromise. I have never regretted it afterwards.
Q. Can you tell us briefly about the research which won you The Wiley Prize in Economics?
A. My research is in public economics, trying to integrate theory and empirics. A recent trend in public economics is to revisit important issues that have been studied before, but expressing the relevant policy recommendations in terms of statistics that can be estimated empirically. This exercise has been very fruitful as it provides both a new lens to think about the policy issues and a clear guide for empirical work. I have been applying this in the design of unemployment insurance and health insurance interventions. My work also tries to understand how behavioral frictions distort individuals' behavior in these contexts and how that affects optimal policy design.
Q. What does winning the Wiley Prize in Economics mean for you?
A. I feel of course greatly honored to receive this prize. I am very pleased with the recognition of my work in public economics. It is a very exciting field to be in today and it has been a joy to try contributing to it at LSE.
Q. As this is a lifetime achievement award, can you tell us which accomplishments in your career you are most proud of?
A. Research being put to practical use is always very pleasing. The original research with two PhD students on attachment in expectant mothers predicting forward to the future child's relationship with their parent is probably the finding that I think is most relevant, but none of us anticipated the impact that understanding the mechanisms underpinning the associations would have on prevention and early intervention. Writing brief forewords to practical guides to parenting based on these ideas brings me the greatest pleasure.
Q. As one of the founders of the concept, how would you explain mentalization to those unfamiliar with it?
A. Mentalization doesn't need explaining. It is the most natural of all human mental capacities. We talk about understanding people and we mean understanding their thoughts, their feelings, their wishes as these relate to what they do. We never think about our own actions, other than as prompted by some wish, desire or belief. Understanding that other people have minds and that their actions are the product of their thoughts and feelings is probably as close to a definition of a human being as we can get.
Q. What does winning this prize mean to you?
A. It's an enormous honor to be in the company of great psychologists such as Martin Seligman, Michael Tomasello and Anne Treisman. Whilst I shall never be able to think of myself as being a deserving recipient I do feel proud on behalf of the many collaborators I have worked with over the years who genuinely deserve this prize. I have enjoyed my work because if has always been work in teams and I have been extraordinarily lucky in having the most able and talented individuals to work with across a range of disciplines. I am principally pleased to receive the prize as a celebration of the contribution they have made to psychological science and allied disciplines.
Peer review is widely considered to be the best way to check the validity and correctness of a piece of published research. It's unsurprising then, that there is a drive to apply the principles of peer review to other research outputs, such as software, workflows, and of course data.
I won't be saying anything revolutionary when I say that data is complicated. Journal articles are (pretty much) a standardized format, easily accessible for review, and not requiring special tools to interrogate what is in the paper. This does not mean that reviewing papers is easy, but just that there is an extra layer of complication on top of data which needs to be addressed before review can happen.
Of course, all these types of data will come in their own (sometimes specialized and proprietary) formats, often requiring specialized software to open the files and read the data. It's often not as simple as clicking on a link and reading a html or pdf document. And in cases where data are stored in commonly used formats, like spreadsheets, extra information is still needed to determine what the numbers in the cells actually represent, and how to use them.
Data are also big. A reviewer may be happy to review a 20 page paper on the train, but printing out 2 TB of data tables is not really an option (and even if you did – it would be very difficult to make sense of it all!) The hard copy of the Human Genome, at the Wellcome Collection in London, is an excellent example of the sheer physical size of some datasets, and also the impossibility of using it, or reviewing it, in any meaningful way solely from the hard copy.
It can also be very difficult to determine when a dataset is "finished." Some data are collected over the course of years/decades/centuries, with the community wanting to use the most up-to-date data now. If an ongoing dataset is reviewed, obviously the review only applies to the data that was collected up to the point of the review. But what of the data collected after? Is that still covered by the review? My answer is yes, to a certain extent, because the review doesn't just look at the data – it looks at the methodologies of collection, the data management and archiving processes, and the metadata published along with the data – all of which remain valid for data collected after the review.
While peer review evaluates the quality of a piece of research, evaluating the quality of data is not as easy as it seems. For example, a dataset might be collected for one purpose (e.g. listening to atmospheric fading on an Earth to satellite communication channel which has too much noise in the received signal). However, this noise is exactly the sort of data that researchers studying the effects of scintillation (changes in the refractive index of the atmosphere) are interested in. So a dataset with too much noise is "bad" for a researcher working on fading, while "good" for a researcher working on scintillation. In some cases, a dataset might be marginally useful now, but in twenty or a hundred years, it could be exceptionally valuable. For example in the eighteenth century, ships' captains regularly made meteorological measurements and recorded them in the ship's log. They would have had no idea at the time that their measurements would be an incredibly valuable resource for investigating the effects of climate change several hundred years later!
With all these complications, it seems that reviewing data should be a horrible, difficult job – a perception that puts reviewers off even attempting to review data. From personal experience, I can say that reviewing data isn't as hard as you'd expect – provided guidance is given on what the review is trying to determine.
As I said earlier, the quality of a dataset is often determined by what use one wants to make of it. But regardless how useful a dataset might be in the future, if it is not documented and archived properly, all its potential is wasted. My thinking is that data peer review should focus on the fundamental question of "Can this dataset be used by others, sometime in the future?" That question leads you to ask about the supporting information (metadata) provided with the dataset, the formats that the data is stored in, and the longevity and trustworthiness of the repository it is archived in. Datasets can rely on domain specific knowledge for their use (though implicit domain knowledge may well disappear over time), but it is better and safer to provide as much metadata and associated documentation as possible.
Providing this supporting information is time consuming and takes effort, but there is an increasing recognition by funders and researchers that properly archiving and documenting data is worth the effort and should be funded. Making data open for peer review gives other benefits besides error-checking and protection against fraud.It also opens data for collaboration and exploitation by industry and out-of-discipline researchers, promotes the dataset, and makes it easier to track the data's impact.
We are still in the very early stages of peer review for data, so we're only just starting to come up with solutions for many of these problems. Of course, given the heterogeneity of data, and the broad spread of academic disciplines, we simply won't be able to create a generic solution!
This is an interesting time for data, and for the whole academic publication process. I'm looking forward to seeing what solutions we develop.
The role of the librarian is to connect users to information. We do so by organizing and managing content and its connection points, but our role goes further by making content "social" so that it's findable. According to Ulrich's, a source for bibliographic and publisher information, there exist over 300,000 periodicals and 400 abstracting and indexing sources to assist in identifying content. When I think about how users access scholarly content, the expression "path of least resistance" comes to mind. There is so much content for information seekers to sift through that libraries have advanced past the online catalog for quick look-up to installing a discovery system to unify all of their electronic and print resources in one index. It allows our users to discover content quicker, with a single search interface, using filters to achieve desired results. But, this is where publishers need to think how to make their content social and likable by the relevancy rankings within discovery systems and search engines. If anyone is going to find your published content, it will need to appear at the top of the search results page.
Traditional bibliographic databases subscribed to by academic libraries are still popular sources to find peer-reviewed works. I recently ran a report on user activity on my library's website that revealed the top referring sources were PubMed at 46%, followed by the full-text aggregated databases at 26%, and Google Scholar at 6%. (Note that my library solely serves a health professional community.) Referring links do not tell the entire picture of system-wide use, as institutional users will download and use mobile apps on their handheld devices. The library promotes the use of other PubMed apps such as Unbound Medicine's uCentral and PubMed On Tap. As much as we, the content creators and information organizers, want to be the starting pathway for information seekers, they may begin somewhere else. Popular starting points are search engines such as Google and Google Scholar, journal reader apps (eg, BrowZine, Docphin, and Read by QxMD), and social networking sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu, which are now acceptable go-to resources for vetted content in the academic community. As a result, library and publisher websites face competition from third-party applications and social networking sites as sources to find interdisciplinary and topic-specific content. What this means is that traditional library bibliographic databases are disrupted by freely available discovery sources. The abstracting and indexing services offer controlled vocabulary for searching for topics, whereas search engines crawl billions of webpages and build a simple index where results are ranked by relevance. The difference in results from a controlled source to a relevancy-ranked source is astounding. The content that is the most "social" is found first by the Web crawlers even though it might not be considered the best available research.
Librarians have embraced alternative discovery services by collaborating with third-party developers to supply article-level links to subscribed and demand-driven content through the OpenURL link resolver services. My library employs 360 Link from Serials Solutions (a division of ProQuest) to send our electronic serial and monograph holdings to Google Scholar. It is a monthly automated process that allows our users who choose not to search the bibliographic databases the ability to find library-subscribed peer-reviewed content. When our users search from within Google Scholar, if an article or book chapter is available through our online library, they can connect to the full-text content through the linkout. Additionally, Google Scholar will also alert the user if a full-text version is available through an institutional repository or publisher's open access. website. The mobile journal reader apps work the same way, allowing the library to register with the application developer to make the connection to the content. Some apps offer the ability to track the individual's reading habits to record continuing education credits and offer the librarian usage reports of which subscribed resources are being accessed from within the app. As more academic institutions embrace primary learning using handheld devices, having the ability to customize third party apps will become necessary in order to be adopted by collaborative learning environments.
App use is growing among the academic community as a way to stay connected to the current research and maximize learning efficiency. My school has adopted Inkling as its single source to deliver required textbooks to students. Using the Inkling mobile app permits course instructors to highlight and annotate the digital text and allows both faculty and students to share notes as a means of fostering collaborative learning. Additionally, instructors can create individual ebooks to distribute independent guided learning events outside the classroom. What lies ahead for academic libraries is how to distribute content to their users who are relying increasingly on their tablets for primary learning.
As didactic lectures are being transformed to team-based learning events, learners need quick access to content to ask questions and participate in discussion. Applications that can deliver reliable, evidenced-based results and break down information into digestible chunks will be preferred by learners.
The above article was originally published in Editorial Office News, the official newsletter of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors.


Childproofing my house scares me. I go to bed thinking of bobbins rolling under a couch or a pin falling from some almost-finished doll. I told my husband I thought I would stop making things for awhile — until she was old enough not to swallow a bobbin. He said absolutely not and reminded me that lots of mothers who sew have figured out how to store their tools. Of course he was right. Of course it was my anxiety disorder that made everything look so black and white and unreliably creepy: bobbins = death.
After using this tutorial to make a bonnet out of Flora's (my brother's grandmother) robe — which I'll also be making a tie out of for my brother — I felt happier than I have felt in weeks. Creating things is important. Wherever you find that happy, peaceful, almost meditative feeling? Whether it be working in the garden, cooking, sewing, crafting, writing — anything where you make something out of something else? Do it. Stop putting it off. Fill your life with those moments!


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During his post-show media scrum following AEW Double or Nothing, AEW President Tony Khan commented on having many emotions during this year's Double or Nothing event due to the return of fans and Brodie Lee's match at last year's show. He said,
"The one thing I wished was that the person who would have seen this is Brodie [Lee]," said Khan. "It probably ranks as one of the two most emotional shows we've had, second only, of course, to the Brodie Lee Show. Last year he was in a World Title match at Double or Nothing. That's such a great match and that's the first show where we let some family and friends who were tested in. and we had a tested bubble crowd and distanced and it was nothing like this but he had a great match in a very small crowd and I just wish he could have been here tonight."
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Beers Made By Walking and the Sutro Stewards announce the release of six beers inspired by the trails of Mount Sutro and another inspired by journeys to western Sonoma. The tapping will take place in the Grotto Room of the Sports Basement on Bryant Street, in San Francisco, on Saturday, November 14 from 4:30-7:00pm.
The beers at the event come directly from a collaboration with the Sutro Stewards, an organization, who brought San Francisco residents a series of public hikes attended by local brewers this summer. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Sutro Stewards. Tickets are $15 and include samples of each place-based beer. Tickets are available here.
21st Amendment Brewery Cask of St. Sutro This Belgian-style Blonde Ale features additions of Yerba Buena and wild sage. This cask version includes "dry-hopped" Hummingbird Sage.
Barrel Head Brewhouse Cask of Belgian Blonde This Belgian-style Blonde Ale features a "dry-hopped" addition of black sage.
Headlands Brewing Cask of One Pils Makes You Lager A cask beer with additions of Mount Tamalpais Chanterelles, Yerba Buena Mint and Hummingbird Sage.
Magnolia Brewery Golden Rabbit Ale A golden ale brewed with three hop varietals, directly sourced malt and finished with Doug Fir tips, Madrone bark, Madrone berries, California bay laurel leaves and Pineapple Sage. This beer was inspired by journeys to Golden Rabbit Ranch in western Sonoma.
Sirwisa Brewing Collective Session IPA with Local Tea This crew of homebrewers crafted a session IPA with local tea and will also be bringing some other interesting beers to the event.
ThirstyBear Brewing Yerba Buena Pale Gruit In lieu of hops, this beer features mugwort, sage and manzanita, is then fermented with a Belgian yeast strain and finished with a tincture of Yerba Buena tea.
Woods Beer Co. in collaboration with Fort Point Beer Co. Belgian Pale with Sage This beer features foraged sage from Sutro Heights and is fermented with Fort Point Park Yeast.


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Out of Focus: Dismantling Detective Mode
By Stephen Beirne | February 25, 2014 | 9:00am
Games Features
A medical teacher was lecturing her students on the importance of observation. She held up a jar of urine so that they may identify it by sight, smell and taste. On this last one, she dipped her finger into the jar, took her hand out and put her finger in her mouth. The students watched in astonishment as the jar was passed around, but being the dedicated lot they were, they each proceeded to dip in their fingers and lick off the urine. After the jar had done the rounds, the teacher shook her head and said, "Had any of you been observant, you'd have seen I put my second finger in the jar, but my first finger in my mouth."
Although it centers on the benefits of observation, this joke hinges on obscurity. Like the teacher fooling her students, ambiguity surrounding which finger went where is pivotal to the punchline's twist so that if the joke explicitly presented the finger in the jar as different from the one licked, there would be no twisting of the mental model you've built up of the scenario and no "aha" moment.
In the AAA games bloc, detective mode is the feature du jour that inadvertently demolishes the beauty of observation, though what I call "detective mode" you might know better through whatever name granted it by your franchise of choice. While it certainly predates Batman: Arkham Asylum, this was the title that really popularized it so this is the one I've come to blame. Nowadays more and more designers wring it into their games' mechanics—it's been in Dishonored, The Last of Us, Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution and Deus Ex; Human Revolution. It'll be in the next Metal Gear Solid. It's in the new Thief, which is out today. It's not everywhere but soon enough it may become standardized for a certain type of game.
And that would be a massive pity, because while detective mode confers some advantages for players and designers, it spoils the punchline of which finger is soiled.
Focus mode in Thief (2014)
What I mean by detective mode is the ability of the player to press a button to overlay the screen with a bizarre hyper-virtual representation of the gameworld. The environment turns drab and anything relevant to the player's interaction with the area is signposted, often through walls, with neon silhouettes. In Arkham Asylum, enemies glowed blue and red, and grapple points were orange, among other visual tricks. In the new Thief, every object Garrett can interact with in a room turns blue when he uses his Focus ability. While each version of detective mode slightly differs, all adhere to the function of overlaying visuals to smack you over the head with anything of interest.
In this way, detective mode can be useful, especially if you the player are not really arsed with interacting with your brain. It's a double-edged sword, though—you barely need to do anything more than point and click because the visual explodes anything relevant to progression to the forefront of consciousness. The main virtue is in enabling progress without needing the player to be familiar with design tropes, so those not fluent in videogame conventions can still identify paths and track enemies with ease. So it makes games more accessible, which is great, but it tears away any sense of subtlety and intrigue until there's very little to sink your teeth into systemically.
Ostentatious signifiers bypass the need for observation and interpretation by presenting base design elements at their face value. Observation is replaced by seeing: You just boggle your eyes at the screen for a second and immediately take in everything. The mental model you'd normally need to form of the gameworld is externally displaced to the visual interface so that each signifier becomes little more than an emblem of an obstacle or resource: red for bad, blue for useful, green for good.
This is never more obvious than in detective mode's eponymous function. Scenes where Batman must exert his detective status ask the player to give a quick scan of the area. Any speck of dust ultimately becoming a clue is emblazoned to attract the player's attention, whereupon Batman narrates the clue's relevance to his immediate task and unlocks the next objective marker. Deduction is wholly automated, making the player's input in the detecting process nothing more than looking at something the game has observed for you.
In games like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, where investigation and deduction are core to the experience, the joy of investigation follows the same pattern as problem solving in a good puzzle game: observe, interpret, abstract and relate. Automation robs you of mental investment in the scenario and leaps right over that Eureka moment on finding and enacting the solution.
Detective mode in Batman was lip service in a game whose developers preferred it to be a brawler, but in the same manner it steals the internal processes inherent in stealth design: the routine of observing patterns, conceptualizing routes for progression and enacting the solution while retaining environmental awareness. Good stealth mechanics convey the game's ecosystem into your mind as a liveable space, using sounds and behaviours and sensations to compliment the sights. Replace that with an interface allowing for near-constant visual omniscience and there's little cause for information retention and concentration on your surroundings, and less reason for you to step into and live in the environment.
That all being said, it's not such a dreadful thing so long as the detective mode is left optional, as a leg up for disadvantaged or disinterested players, right? More often than not, however, this tends not to be the case. Instead it's a crutch to overcome design shortcomings, as in Arkham Asylum and its sequels, where detective mode substitutes for any actual detective work, as a nod towards actions fitting within the narrative that accomplish the gameworld's fiction without having to actually entertain them. In doing so, the player can be bridged from one area to the next when the plot hits a wall, facilitated onwards by Batman's amazing genius brain, rather than sensible plotting.
For stealth games, it empowers you to spot and track enemies where this is not otherwise made accessible through the game's broader system, making it much easier to track and avoid erratic enemy behavior caused by wonky AI. And it means you have less cause to interact with guards to exploit and manipulate their behavior, because why would you need to when you've got them in constant visual contact? Routes through convoluted areas or discovery of obscured items or objects of relevance can also this way be more easily scried, as with pathfinding by runes in Dishonored, patching over problems with the level design.
But while detective mode is too often an easy, lazy answer to design woes, with a little imagination it can be incorporated into a game's structure without supplanting every other player resource. The thermal goggles in Metal Gear Solid, arguably the originator of detective mode, serve as a fantastic example. When you equip these goggles enemies still become vivid silhouettes, but since the camera remains fixed outside of your control you're forbidden constant visual dominance of the area. The camera restrictions are otherwise navigable by other allowances so the goggles encourage you to play them against other resources and abilities, whereupon your inventory becomes a very powerful toolset.
When Metal Gear Solid 3 shifted to a third-person perspective, the goggles were tweaked to greatly hinder depth and terrain perception and gobble up batteries like a glutton. Instead you were compensated with a variety of other items, each limited in their specificity, but when put all together enabling you to conceptualize the area outside of your natural field of sound and vision, much as detective mode tries to simulate.
So what lessons could be learned from this in relation to, say, Batman: Arkham Asylum? One complaint pretty much everyone had of detective vision was that it was so useful with no real drawbacks as to make it virtually ubiquitous. There's no real need to see every baddie in the area, for instance, especially through walls and floors, since they're only a threat when they're close enough to see you directly.
Limiting the glow of enemies to the range of a few feet and to only when they're in your visual range would create a lovely tension between your power and your vulnerability. Mess around with some of Batman's other gadgets to make them less like "the blue key" and "the red key", and make them useful for vaguely locating enemies and things of interest, through sounds, vibrations, as a splodge on a handheld radar or the tightening of a camera angle on Batman's haunches. That'd stop it from being the win button and turn it into something you've got to navigate and manage, and when everything comes together like poetry, it's the result of your expertise and not Batman passively emanating his reputation.
A few wee changes can wallop the entire vibe of the game framed by a feeling of veracity to your actions, no longer as a shimmer of Batman's, no longer letting him do all the thinking as if you don't have a brain in your head to look and see and think for yourself. Ironically, designers always rationalize detective mode in a narrative context as a visualization of sense perceptions enhanced by experience, technology, magic, whatever, whereas in practise it precludes the feeling of these characteristics through your own prowess. It ends up hollow. Batman is wonderful and clever, you're just a homunculus.
Stephen Beirne is a freelance critic of videogames as cultural texts, examining design and social phenomenon under narrative, philosophical, political, social and feminist lenses. His work has featured on Destructoid, Gameranx, Popmatters, Unwinnable and more. You can see more of him on Twitter @ByronicM and his blog Normally Rascal or help to support his writing by visiting his Patreon page and pledging a few quid as patronage.
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Q: Is there a way to loop over array of arrays of objects? This is how my solution should look like:

Right now I have an array where I group them all by there first letter like so
const grouped = _.groupBy(topicPages, key => key.relatedTopic.title[0]);

And this is the result :

So I am trying to figure out a way to display the Letter A with the titles that are in that array.
I have tried using some sort of map :
grouped.map(first, key) => {
  // here I want to display the key

 // and then continue looping over
  first.map(title => {
    title.relatedTopic.title
  })
})

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I get : TypeError: grouped.map is not a function

grouped is an object, which does not have a map function.

const input = ["All","Andre","Ben","Boy"];

const grouped = _.groupBy(input, item => item[0]);

console.log(grouped)
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In order to loop over it you probably want the entries

const input = ["All","Andre","Ben","Boy"];

const grouped = _.groupBy(input, item => item[0]);

_.forEach(_.entries(grouped), ([key,values]) => {
    console.log(key);
    values.forEach(value => {
       console.log("\t" + value);
    })
})
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