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Welcome to IOS Press Labs!

IOS Press Labs is a virtual meeting place where we can share what’s happening behind the scenes at IOS Press and what we’ve learned with all of our communities: readers, authors, editorial board members, reviewers, librarians, developers, and business partners.

Highlights from our latest blog posts and other features can be found on this page; to view all posts in chronological order, go here.

Latest Posts

Knowledge Graphs: Making Our Structured Data Stand Out

26 March 2021 | Carmel McNamara, IOS Press, Amsterdam, NL

IOS Press publishes hundreds of journal articles and book chapters every month. How can we ensure all of this content stands out and is...

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linked data

knowledge graph

Addressing the Challenges of Open Access Infrastructure

18 February 2021 | Astrid Engelen, Publishing Consultant, Amsterdam, NL

After decades of discussion, open access (OA) appears to be the direction of travel within scholarly publishing. Many...

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open access

Creating a GO FAIR Implementation Network for Academic Publishers

29 January 2021 | Carmel McNamara, IOS Press, Amsterdam, NL

The implementation of guiding principles to make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) relies on public endorsement...

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FAIR

data

digital

IOS Press content

Agile Working in Digital Publishing

9 January 2021 | Dominique De Cooman, Dropsolid, Gent, Belgium

Developing a digital experience as a one-size-fits-all model is not the approach that Dropsolid likes to take for its clients. Instead...

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agile

Dropsolid

drupal

workflow tools

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Digital Building Blocks for Website Infrastructure

IOS Press has formulated a digital framework that allows new journal websites to be made easily and seamlessly in-house. The priority was to focus on interoperability, flexibility, maintainability, and scalability. Click to discover how we went about this!

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Contribute a Blog Post to the Labs Website

The Labs website is open to contributors across the globe. We welcome posts relating to technical projects, publishing developments, software tools, and more. If an idea springs to mind, or you have a story to share that fits into the colorful tapestry of scholarly publishing, please get in touch!

Most Popular Labs Blogs

Addressing the Challenges of Open Access Infrastructure – Panel discussion from Rave Technologies’ publishing conference (by Astrid Engelen, Publishing Consultant)

Agile Working in Digital Publishing – Outline of Dropsolid’s agile approach to developing a digital experience (by Dominique De Cooman, Dropsolid)

Designing a Scalable Infrastructure for Journal Websites – Maximizing the digital experience (by Carmel McNamara, IOS Press)

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Most Popular IOS Press Content

COVID-19 Vaccination for Persons with Parkinson’s Disease: Light at the End of the Tunnel? (Bas Bloem et al., Journal of Parkinson's Disease)

In the World of Bladder Tumors: Size Does Matter (Justin Loloi et al., Bladder Cancer)

Effects of 8-hour time restricted feeding on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors in obese adults: A pilot study (Kelsey Gabel at al., Nutrition and Healthy Aging)

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