Ask The Chefs: Improving Trust in Peer Review
In support of #PeerRevWk20 theme #TrustInPeerReview, we asked the Chefs how trust in peer review could be improved. See what they said and add your thoughts!
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Articles Are the Fundamental Unit of Data Sharing - The Scholarly Kitchen
Articles Are the Fundamental Unit of Data Sharing - The Scholarly Kitchen
The FAIR principles answer the 'How' question for sharing research data, but we also need consensus on the 'What' question.
Beyond Publication - Increasing Opportunities For Recognizing All Research Contributions
Beyond Publication - Increasing Opportunities For Recognizing All Research Contributions
Recognizing the many ways that researchers (and others) contribute to science and scholarship has historically been challenging but we now have options, including CRediT and ORCID.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - The Pandemic's Impact on Open Access Progress
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - The Pandemic's Impact on Open Access Progress
The COVID pandemic may leave us stuck between a growing consensus that open science is the superior way to drive progress and an inability to invest what may be needed to make it happen.
COAlition S's Rights Confiscation Strategy Continues - The Scholarly Kitchen
COAlition S's Rights Confiscation Strategy Continues - The Scholarly Kitchen
By calling its new policy a "Rights Retention Strategy," cOAlition S is engaging in doublespeak. This strategy actually does exactly the opposite of what it claims.
Reanalysis of Tweeting Study Yields No Citation Benefit - The Scholarly Kitchen
Reanalysis of Tweeting Study Yields No Citation Benefit - The Scholarly Kitchen
Scientific authorship comes with benefits, but also responsibilities. If authors are unwilling to explain their work, editors must step up to defend their journal.
How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture: An Interview with Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science
How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture: An Interview with Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science
In this interview Robert Harington asks Daniel Hook (CEO of Digital Science and co-author of the new Digital Science report. How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture) about his views on fundamental shifts in research culture as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Humanities Research Infrastructure is Great Return on Investment - Will We Sell It Short?
Humanities Research Infrastructure is Great Return on Investment - Will We Sell It Short?
Humanities Research Infrastructure is critical social investment, and we could support it better if we understood it better.
Building Resilient Learned Societies in an Age of Pandemic and Fear - The Scholarly Kitchen
Building Resilient Learned Societies in an Age of Pandemic and Fear - The Scholarly Kitchen
Learned societies face many new challenges in the face of a pandemic.
To Bundle or Not to Bundle? That Is the Question
While some libraries seek transformative agreements, others are unbundling the Big Deal: a look at licensing models and revenue pressures for publishers.
An Open Agenda: European Funder Approaches to Open Science
Article explores what European funders are doing to drive change in scholarly communication, and argue that funders’ open policies could be backed up more by funders’ own practices.
Revisiting in a New Light: A Conference Call in Real Life
Living in our new world of videoconferencing makes it worth reconsidering a funny video on the perils of conference calls.
Building Your Remote Workforce: Including Tips & Tricks for Social Distancing
Organizations across the globe are being forced to adapt quickly, with some allowing employees to work from home the first time. But there are many reasons to shift to a remote team - learn more about why and how.
Humans Are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges
From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity -- and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.
Revisiting - Transformative Agreements: A Primer
Do you know what is meant by the term 'transformative agreement' or how 'Read and Publish' deals are structured? Today we explain the concepts behind these increasingly important approaches.
Global Science, China's Rise, and European Anxiety
Global Science, China's Rise, and European Anxiety
While some talk about global science, China's skyrocketing investment in its scientific sector is causing real anxiety for Europe.
The Data Science Revolution: An Interview with Xiao-Li Meng
An interview with Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, about the increasingly central role data science is playing in research and teaching - and how journals, publishers, societies, and librarians fit in this emerging ecosystem.
Let Authors Choose How to Pay for Peer Review and Publication
This essay argues that giving authors a choice between submission fees and APCs has numerous benefits.
Who Is Competing to Own Researcher Identity?
The structural transition wrought by the internet continues to transform the journal-centric model of scholarly publishing into a researcher-centric model of scholarly communication. Success requires engagement with researcher identity, which is a struggle even for most of the largest publishing.
Politics and Open Access
Robert Harington explores rumors circulating in recent weeks of an impending US Executive Order focusing on public access to federally funded research and open data.
On Being Accepted: The Views of Four People with Disabilities Working in Scholarly Communications
On Being Accepted: The Views of Four People with Disabilities Working in Scholarly Communications
What's it like to be work in scholarly communications as a person with a disability - physical or mental?
Publishers Announce a Major New Service to Plug Leakage
A group of leading publishers is announcing a major new service to plug leakage, improve discovery and access, fight piracy, compete with ResearchGate, and position their platform for the OA ecosystem.
The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of the open access movement.
Is PLOS Running Out Of Time? Financial Statements Suggest Urgency To Innovate
Is PLOS Running Out Of Time? Financial Statements Suggest Urgency To Innovate
The publisher is committed to financial sustainability. How it achieves it is an open question.
Can Geowalling Save Open Access?
Geowalling open content is proposed yet again. As a thought experiment, it is explored what Plan S principles would be compromised by this tactic.
What Do Researchers Want from Publishers?
Former scientist, turned publisher, turned research program director, Milka Kostic is uniquely placed to look at publishing from a researcher and a publisher perspective. In this interview, she shares her thoughts on both.
Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature
Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature
How many articles from predatory journals are being cited in the legitimate (especially medical) literature? Some disturbing findings.
Ask The Chefs: Beyond the APC
It's Open Access week so this month we asked the chefs: What's next for OA? What lies beyond the APC as a funding model? Let us know your thoughts!
The Second Wave of Preprint Servers: How Can Publishers Keep Afloat?
A discussion of the findings of a research study into the recent growth of preprint servers and exploration of how publishers might respond.
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