What Can We Learn from One Million Open Access Articles?
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.
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Building the Social and Technical Infrastructures to Transform Research Data Sharing One Plenary at a Time
Building the Social and Technical Infrastructures to Transform Research Data Sharing One Plenary at a Time
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.
Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
A look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.
Seeking Feedback on a Model Digital Preservation Policy, a Project of the NASIG Digital Preservation Committee
Seeking Feedback on a Model Digital Preservation Policy, a Project of the NASIG Digital Preservation Committee
A look at the NASIG Digital Preservation Policy and a request for comments.
Translating Digital Humanities Skills From College to Career
Sarah Ketchley and Lindsey Gervais discuss the value offered by programs in the digital humanities.
Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access in Canada (Part 2)
Part 2 of this series looking at open access developments in Canada examines the changing processes and infrastructure needs for open science.
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on How COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)
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.
Job Hunting with an "Invisible" Disability: A Conversation
This post is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry.
Is Scientific Communication Trustworthy?
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.
Five Things You Need to Know About UKRI's New Open Access Policy
Victoria Ficarra and Rob Johnson offer insights into the new UKRI open access policy.
What (Not) to Do When Libraries Won't Get on Board
Why aren't libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.
Does the World Need an Academic Integrity Awareness Index?
An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.
Actions on Retractions: An Interview with Jodi Schneider
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.
Some Perspectives on Disability Disclosure in the Publishing Industry
Today's post is looking at the experiences of people with disabilities in scholarly publishing.
Transforming the Transformative Agreement
Brigitte Shull from Cambridge University Press looks at the lessons learned so far from transformative agreements and how they continue to evolve.
Recognition in Peer Review
A look at recognition in peer review, what's offered now and what's on the horizon. How does this affect the process?
Revisiting: How Traditional Publishing Works
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.
Celebrating 25 Years of Preserving the Web
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.
Where Does Enhancement End and Citation Begin?
As more publishers semantically enrich documents, Todd Carpenter considers whether links are the same as citations
Wiley Acquires Editorial Services Group
Scholarly publishing powerhouse purchases editorial services group raising questions about industry comfort with using publisher owned services.
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Timon Oefelein Interviews Gerald Beasley
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Timon Oefelein Interviews Gerald Beasley
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.
The Experience of Good Metadata: Linking Metadata to Research Impacts - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Experience of Good Metadata: Linking Metadata to Research Impacts - The Scholarly Kitchen
What do we really know about the linkages between good metadata and positive, productive user experiences with scholarly journals?
Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI: An Interview with Darrell Gunter
Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI: An Interview with Darrell Gunter
Today features an interview with Darrell W. Gunter, editor of the new book Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI.
Fifty Shades of Hybrid Conferences: Why Publishers Should Care (and How You Can Help)
Fifty Shades of Hybrid Conferences: Why Publishers Should Care (and How You Can Help)
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?
The Evolving Role of Scientific Editing
In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor's role changes as much as the reviewer's role.
Open Reviewer Identities: Full Steam Ahead or Proceed with Caution?
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.
Revisiting: Theory of the E-book
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.
The Dawn of the Age of Duplicate Peer Review
Will the plethora review options for preprints usher in a new age of duplicate peer review?
The North is Drawing the South Closer, But, This is Not the Whole Picture of Geographical Inclusion
The North is Drawing the South Closer, But, This is Not the Whole Picture of Geographical Inclusion
Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.
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