Send us a link
The last few years have been a period of rapid market consolidation in scholarly publishing. Here, a look at the ongoing demise of the independent research society publisher, as more and more continue to sign on with larger publishing partners.
Springer Nature has published 1,000,000 open access articles. Steven Inchcoombe discusses what they've learned during this process, and what it means for the future of open access.
Twice a year, members of the Research Data Alliance come together for a plenary meeting that brings together active working groups, interest groups, and communities of practice. Phill Jones virtually attended the 18th plenary from the comfort and (COVID) safety of his home office. These are some of his observations about research infrastructure, data standards and persistent identifiers.
A look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.
A look at the NASIG Digital Preservation Policy and a request for comments.
Sarah Ketchley and Lindsey Gervais discuss the value offered by programs in the digital humanities.
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.
A look at open access policies and developments in Canada, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Part 1 of a 2 part post.
This post is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry.
Openness and politicization together have enabled public trust in science to erode. And science is insufficiently trustworthy. The scholarly communication sector must not ignore this situation.
Victoria Ficarra and Rob Johnson offer insights into the new UKRI open access policy.
Why aren't libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.
An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.
In today's post, Alice Meadows interviews Jodi Schneider of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign about the work she's leading to reduce the inadvertent spread of retracted research.
Today's post is looking at the experiences of people with disabilities in scholarly publishing.
Brigitte Shull from Cambridge University Press looks at the lessons learned so far from transformative agreements and how they continue to evolve.
A look at recognition in peer review, what's offered now and what's on the horizon. How does this affect the process?
Revisiting a 2018 primer on the business side of publishing. The defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.
Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.
As more publishers semantically enrich documents, Todd Carpenter considers whether links are the same as citations
Scholarly publishing powerhouse purchases editorial services group raising questions about industry comfort with using publisher owned services.
In Part 1 of this pair of posts, Timon Oefelein interviews Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, about how librarians can support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
What do we really know about the linkages between good metadata and positive, productive user experiences with scholarly journals?
Today features an interview with Darrell W. Gunter, editor of the new book Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI.
Since in-person events are likely not going away, and neither are virtual ones, conference organizers are left with the most complex of options: hybrid. How can scholarly publishers help?
In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor's role changes as much as the reviewer's role.
Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. This post takes a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.
Joe Esposito revisits his 2012 post on the unstated theory of the e-book, which assumes that a book consists only of its text and can be manipulated without regard to the nature and circumstances of its creation.
Will the plethora review options for preprints usher in a new age of duplicate peer review?
