Naiveté Scene - Open Source vs. Scale in Scholarly Publishing
Once again, the term "open" requires further thought to probe the pros and cons. With open source, we may be once again doing things that make the big bigger and the small less relevant.
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Seven Things I Learned at the 8th International Peer Review Congress
Here's a brief summary of some key takeaways from this year's Peer Review Congress, held every four years. A talk by the Swiss National Science Foundation was especially enjoyed.
Does Born-Digital Mean Rethinking Peer Review?
What kind of peer review is developing to evaluate long-form digital scholarship? A view from AAUP press editors.
A Confusion of Journals - What Is PubMed Now?
PubMed is found to contain predatory journals and publishers, likely reflecting a long-term and broader problem, which only adds to the confusion about what exactly PubMed represents at this point.
The Walls Around Us - Why Cambridge University Press' Predicament Demands Attention
The Walls Around Us - Why Cambridge University Press' Predicament Demands Attention
The recent attempt by China to censor scholarship points to a growing set of challenges in information dissemination. Blaming the publisher obscures these issues.
Could Publishing Embrace Slow?
A recent book took aim at accelerating administrative demands and the internalized expectation of measurable productivity that have eroded the quality of academic life and work. Is there a corollary for scholarly publishing?
Tracking the Evolution of Reference Resources
A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.
Have We Been Hacked By Sci-Hub?
Recent announcements from the creator of Sci-Hub raise the distinct possibility that Scholarly Publishers have been systematically compromised.
Does Journal Suppression Reduce Self-Citation?
Journal suppression is an effective tool for reducing high rates of self-citation, even years after a title is reintroduced.
Platform Diving - Top Journals, UX, and the Lure of Harmonization
A review of top journals in 18 fields show they are on a variety of platforms, suggesting cognitive burden for users which may be driving them to aggregated options with unified user experiences.
Reverse Engineering JCR's Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds
Now we know how suppression decisions are made, should metrics companies suppress titles at all or simply make the underlying data more transparent?
How Much Citation Manipulation Is Acceptable?
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?
How Big a Problem Are Articles that Should Be OA but End Up Behind Paywalls
How Big a Problem Are Articles that Should Be OA but End Up Behind Paywalls
In recent years, observers have noticed that articles for which an APC has been paid are not always made freely available. How pervasive is this problem?
Reproducible Research, Just Not Reproducible By You
What happens when an experiment is correct, but it's really hard to replicate? Are there research results that are accurate but not reproducible?
Designing a New Type of Journal Metric
At the Researcher to Reader conference, a volunteer project called Project Cupcake was launched to define a new suite of indicators to help researchers judge publishers, rather than the other way around.
Does Sharing of an Unpublished Thesis Create Enough Harm to Imprison Someone?
Does Sharing of an Unpublished Thesis Create Enough Harm to Imprison Someone?
Charlie Rapple highlights the case of Diego Gómez, a Columbian researcher facing prison for sharing someone else's thesis via Scribd.
Citation Performance Indicators - A Very Short Introduction
A brief summary of the main citation indicators used today.
The STM Association Future Labs Looks at Technology Trends
The STM Association Future Labs Committee explores the technology trends that will impact scholarly publishing by 2021.
Decline and Fall of the Editor
The editors of scholarly communications are under considerable pressure as recent trends in Gold Open Access characterize them as a luxury of the past.
It Takes a Village: One Year of Journals Requiring ORCID iDs
Getting researcher buy-in to new tools and systems can be challenging - even when those tools are intended to help free them of administrative burden.
The Stars Are Aligning
An overview of recent events and the current state of preprints in the scholarly communications landscape.
What Constitutes Peer Review of Data?
What Constitutes Peer Review of Data?
An extensive Survey of Peer Review Guidelines.
Updated Figures on the Scale and Nature of Researchers’ Use of Scholarly Collaboration Networks
Updated Figures on the Scale and Nature of Researchers’ Use of Scholarly Collaboration Networks
A new survey provides an updated view of how and why researchers are using scholarly collaboration networks.
Axios Review a failed experiment in outsourcing peer review?
Axios Review a failed experiment in outsourcing peer review?
Does the closing of @AxiosReview portend the end of independent peer review, or just the wrong business model?
Citation Cartel Or Editor Gone Rogue?
How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor's coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.
Who Has All the Content? A Taxonomy of Services
Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.
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