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Research bureaucracy and administrative burden has become so overpowering that many researchers are reporting that they don't have time to do any research anymore. Phill Jones argues that technology in the form of PIDs will go a long way to fixing this.
This article analyzes changes in the speed of publication of research articles over the last ten years.
Is there an entrenched stasis in scholarly communication in which the core elements of the system have not been much moved by the revolutions happening around us?
Rachel Helps, the Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU libraries discusses the intersection of scholarly journals and Wikipedia.
On Indigenous Peoples' Day we revisit an interview with Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl, on how we can ensure that our research infrastructure supports and respects Indigenous knowledge and knowledge management.
The OSTP Nelson Memo has caused quite a stir in scholarly communication circles. How will academia handle the zero embargo?
Does trust in research begin with trust in peer review across the whole ecosystem, and what does that look like for different communities and stakeholders?
Chris Graf (and colleagues) present five reasons to be cheerful about research integrity and peer review.
For an early start on Peer Review Week, we reached out to the SSP community to ask "Is research integrity possible without peer review?"
A Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals Community of Interest Network is launching! An interview with facilitators Laura Ansley and Dawn Durante about the group and its focus --and how it's meeting a clear need.
It is suggested to revamp the peer review process to make it less about tearing down the work of others, and more about helping authors improve their papers.
In the first of a four-post series, we explore: the phenomenon of diversity tax and its impact on marginalized individuals.
A new conference explores ways research can turn the scientific method onto improving its own results.
How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?
In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle -- from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.
This article reports on the results of a study looking at the benefits and problems of remote and hybrid conferences, and what the changes in recent years will mean for meetings going forward.
A cafe in Japan helps writers overcome their procrastination.
In the light of CCCs acquisition of Ringgold last week, three Chefs, Phill Jones, Roger Schonfeld, and Todd Carpenter reflect on the motivations for the move and its implications for PIDs and organisational identifiers.
This post offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
This post looks at the progress that's been made toward open research data -- what's been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?
An interview that offers a discussion on the role of peer review in uncovering scientific fraud from the perspective of a historian of science.
Report on the recent SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics, who met to discuss how collaboration among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research.
Review of a webinar featuring several key players in implementing Plan S, asking what lessons have been learned?
ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.
Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field's use of potentially offensive language.
This author offers lessons learned from year of running an online conference in 2021, designing a hybrid conference for 2022, and observing what event providers have offered and delegates have experienced.
A report on the SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force's meeting of senior researchers, university administrators, funders, publishers, and representatives from other organizations on the topic of Responsible Research Assessment for the 21st Century.
This post describes a new research project which will look at the impact of open access on print monograph sales, particularly in light of the free access provided early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
