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.
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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.
Unpacking The Altmetric Black Box
Article Attention Scores for papers don't seem to add up, leading one to question whether Altmetric data are valid, reliable, and reproducible.
The Curse of More, Or, Does Anybody Have Any Time Left to Do Research?
How much more work can we pile on researchers?
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
This substantive work from John B. Thompson provides a historical overview and analysis of technological and legal challenges to publishing practices in the 21st century.
Why We Should All Care About Early Career Pay Equity and Inclusion
Why We Should All Care About Early Career Pay Equity and Inclusion
Learn how two early career publishers are tackling the thorny issue of pay equity and inclusion in today's interview with Rebecca Bostock (Ohio State UP) and Dominique J Moore (University of Illinois Press).
More Unintended Consequences: How the Plan S Transformative Journal Route Favors Larger Incumbent Publishers
More Unintended Consequences: How the Plan S Transformative Journal Route Favors Larger Incumbent Publishers
For smaller and independent publishers, the Transformative Journal route to Plan S compliance seems like a viable option. At least until you see the reporting requirements.
Digital Transformation Requires Cultural Evolution
Turns out, digital transformation is actually more human than technical. Learn more in these case studies from Emerald and De Gruyter.
Happy Birthday to the EBook!
On July 4, 1971 Michael Hart posted the first ebook file on the ARPANET and transformed content distribution.
Trends, Challenges, and Needs of Research in the Global South: Learnings As Research4Life Turns 20
Trends, Challenges, and Needs of Research in the Global South: Learnings As Research4Life Turns 20
Supporting information access in low- and middle-income countries: the latest analysis of the Research4Life user experience.
Revisiting: How to Be A Good Peer Reviewer
There are quite a few ways to shift bad behaviors and habits of reviewers to become not just good, but great peer reviewers.
Preprints Are Not Going to Replace Journals
At a recent meeting, a debate was held on the motion: Preprints are going to replace journals. The author was asked to oppose the motion and this post is based on their arguments.
Of Brown M&M's and Publishing in Academic Journals
Why did a certain band eliminate brown M&M's from their dressing room? And what does that have to do with the formatting requirements at some journals? This article explains.
SSP's Early Career Development Podcast: Open Access
Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Ann Michael (DeltaThink) discuss some of the more complex aspects of the OA landscape, such as funder mandates, Plan S, and transformative agreements.
What's Wrong with Paying for Peer Review?
Lots of things are wrong with paying for peer review.
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