Content licensing as a quality signal for smarter AI

An interview with James Smith of The Crafty Pint.

An interview with Professor Howard Friedman of Religion Clause.

An interview with Professor Eric Goldman of Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

Information databases are strong options for writers who wish to connect with a corporate audience in particular. The corporate audience is an especially engaged group of readers that actively utilizes content in their daily work. If your content is informative and well-written, you should consider publishing it on an information database in order to reach these readers.

Every business owner who has ever written a blog knows the frustration of trying to gain more readers. However, in reality it takes time and effort to build an audience.

Blogging can sometimes be an exercise in frustration. You spend hours researching and writing a post, hit Publish, and then…crickets. Over 70 million blog posts are published every month. This means that creating quality content isn't the only thing that bloggers need in order to get readers. You are competing with thousands of other blogs. Luckily, there are ways to make sure the right people are seeing your content.

An interview with the team behind Cryptopolitan.

An interview with Tibi Puiu, Co-Founder of ZME Science.

An interview with Sheba Karamat, CEO of Coin Rivet.

An interview with Nadine Dworkin, Editor-in-Chief, of VoxPopuli.

Newstex is looking for well-written, authoritative content with limited audiovisual material.

An interview with P. Aiden Hunt, Publisher and Editor of Profiles in Legalization.

An interview with Jacob Wolinsky, Founder and CEO of Valuewalk.

ACI Information Group and ORCID announce a partnership in which scholarly blogs included in the ACI Scholarly Blog Index can be integrated with ORCID public profiles. In addition, through linked data, the journal and book content published by ORCID authors will be integrated into the author profile page in ACI Scholarly Blog Index.

Since more than 2 million researchers have set up ORCID profiles, chances are pretty good that you're at least somewhat familiar with ORCID. Scholars around the world have set up ORCID profiles containing information, and/or links to, their publications, research activities, grants, awards, and other information pertinent to their scholarly work and professional connections.

On Wednesday, July 13, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Dr. Carla D. Hayden as the 14th Librarian of Congress. Dr. Hayden is both the first woman and the first African-American to be appointed to the position.

Scholarly blogs are a valuable source of contemporary information to continue lifelong learning, so the ACI team was excited to read Pew's newest report, "Lifelong Learning and Technology". Here we review some interesting findings from Pew's report.

In a F1000 Research editorial called 'Single Figure Publications: Towards a novel alternative format for scholarly communication', Long Do & William Mobley of the UC San Diego Department of Neuroscience present a new idea: single figure publications.

Pew Research Center recently released a new report entitled, "Americans, Politics and Science Issues". The report focuses on the factors that impact the gap between scientists and the general public. This post explores some of these latest findings.

The ACI Information Group team showcased the ACI Scholarly Blog Index at the 2015 Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 37th Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia. Librarians, faculty, and other researchers learned about all ACI's research database.

The ACI Google Search Chrome Extension displays the top 3 relevant scholarly blog posts from ACI’s editorially-curated collection each time users run a Google search. This post explains the benefits of adding the extension to institutional computers.

The ACI Scholarly Blog Index offers many different platforms for blog authors to reach out, connect to, & engage with those actively interested in their content, giving researchers the chance to follow their other avenues of content and scholarship.

Information Today, Inc. (ITI) published an article on the ACI Scholarly Blog Index in NewsBreaks, which highlights breaking news and important developments in the information industry and library world.

Chances are, yes - it probably is! It's easy to find research and scholarship by your own colleagues, students, and alumni. Just visit the ACI Scholarly Blog Index and browse posts by those affiliated with your own institution by following three simple steps.1. Visit scholar.aci.info. You'll find the primary search box right on the homepage.2. Start typing in the name of your university, college, or institution.

In ACI Roundup: The Use of Social Media and Blogs in Education, we noted various examples of educators using social media and blogs to enhance students’ learning experiences and promote a better understanding of the real-world effects of online reach and collaboration.

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 preferred design techniques for websites and blogs.

As noted in Blogs and Social Media Play Important Roles in Helping Scientists Engage the Public, a recent Pew Internet Research study showed that more scientists are using blogs and social media to communicate with the public than ever before.

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.

The ACI team is proud to announce that we'll be showcasing the ACI Scholarly Blog Index to library and information science professionals at the 2015 Association of College & Research Libraries conference.

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.

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.

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.

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, and more has risen from one in 20 in 2009 to nearly one in four in 2014.

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 same tweet without the hashtag.

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.