Feasibility, Sustainability, and the Subscribe-to-Open Model
Like all OA funding models, subscribe-to-open solves some problems while creating others. Some of the downsides are pretty fundamental.
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Publishers Care About the Version of Record, Do Researchers?
Study of researchers indicates that a preprint or accepted manuscript can substitute for the version of record in some use cases but not all.
How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets?
How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets?
Global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets - the truth we found in the gap between perception and reality
Imposters and Impersonators in Preprints: How Do We Trust Authors in Open Science?
Preprints play a crucial role in open science but offer an opportunity to be gamed. Fictitious authorship in preprints show that open science needs checks and we need to collaborate to govern Open Science.
The Biggest Big Deal
The newly announced California/Elsevier transformative agreement will test the financial sustainability and the financial desirability of the multi-payer model.
Explaining the Rights Retention Strategy
Unpacking each word -- rights, retention, and strategy -- enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.
Publishers Still Don't Prioritize Researchers
Scholarly publishers still do not meet researchers' needs. Doing so would require that they rethink existing businesses and organizational models.
Historians in Historic Times
Will history judge? Reflections from historians about the intense relationship of past and present.
Transformative Agreements, Funders and the Publishing Ecosystem: a Lack of Focus on Equity
Transformative Agreements, Funders and the Publishing Ecosystem: a Lack of Focus on Equity
The Failure of the US Government to Fund Science Infrastructure is Causing Things to Literally Collapse
Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability - The Scholarly Kitchen
Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post - What We Can Learn from How Academics and the Public View Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Guest Post - What We Can Learn from How Academics and the Public View Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Susan Spilka analyzes a series of surveys from Emerald Publishing that asked both academics and the general public about the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion to society.
Are Publishers Learning from Their Mistakes?
Publishers have retracted more than 20 COVID-related papers. Are they learning from their mistakes and fixing process failures?
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!
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.
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