Plan S: Impact on Society Publishers
Plan S implementation guidance has not provided reassurance to anxious society publishers.
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Do You Have Concerns About Plan S? Then You Must Be an Irresponsible, Privileged, Conspiratorial Hypocrite
Do You Have Concerns About Plan S? Then You Must Be an Irresponsible, Privileged, Conspiratorial Hypocrite
Over 1,200 researchers signed an open letter expressing concern about Plan S. Then Twitter came for them -- and, more particularly, for the woman who organized the letter.
Is It Worth Getting Credit for it?
We know that peer review is important and that the hard work of reviewers should be recognized. Yet we still don't really know how that recognition should work.
Plan T: Scrap APCs and Switch to Submission Fees.
Plan S proposes to take a hammer to how we fund peer review and publication. Submission fees deserve serious consideration.
How Traditional Publishing Works
Essay on how traditional publishing works: its market mechanism and editorial strategy.
Eight Ways to Tackle Diversity and Inclusion in Peer Review
We continue our Peer Review Week celebrations with a roundup of articles about bias, diversity, and inclusion in peer review, by Alice Meadows, including eight lessons we can all learn from them.
Mapping Open Science Tools
Mapping Open Science Tools
A fresh mapping of open-science tools for the researcher workflow reveals numerous gaps and opportunities for software solutions in the name of scientific progress.
Guest Post: Challenges for Academics in the Global South - Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems
Guest Post: Challenges for Academics in the Global South - Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems
For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.
It Just Got a Lot Harder to Ignore Predatory Publishing
Thanks to a major new international research study, it's no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention.
Why Hasn’t the Academy Taken Back Control of Publishing Already?
Academic publishing is dominated by a small number of commercial firms. How can the academy take control of scholarly publishing?
The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as Well as Retrieval?
The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as Well as Retrieval?
A heuristic (exploratory) comparison of several new, free / mainstream academic search tools, concluding that their effectivness improves if an institution's library licenses them for off-campus authentication.
Guest Post: Time to Check Out of the Hybrid Hotel?
Rob Johnson looks at the growth of hybrid open access, and questions whether it will remain a reliable revenue stream for publishers.
The Problem with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Dr. Geraldine Cochran discusses why addressing equity is the first step in creating a diverse and inclusive organization.
Has Google Become a Journal Publisher?
Google's journal about artificial intelligence (AI) coming from editors and authors associated with Google and Google Brain raises questions about conflicts, vanity publishing, and Google as a media company.
What Motivates Reviewers? An Experiment in Economics
Shorter deadlines, email reminders, and cash incentives can speed up the peer review process and minimize unintended effects, a recent study suggests. Can it work for other disciplines?
Libraries Face a Future of Open Access
Now that many European library consortia are cancelling deals with publishers, how will libraries respond to a world of open access?
Journals Lose Citations to Preprint Servers
Why do authors continue to cite preprints years after they've been formally published? A citation is much more than a directional link to the source of a document. It is the basis for a system of rewarding those who make significant contributions to public science.
Publishing Continues to Outperform Perception
Publishing Continues to Outperform Perception
With the Springer Nature IPO in the offing, it's important to remember that publishing continues to outperform perception.
One Platform to Rule Them All?
In the digital era, each publisher has established its own content platform, to the detriment of the researcher experience. Discovery is fragmented, leading to substantial library investment in order to provide single-index whole-collection search.
Research Deluge - Are Researchers Writing More yet Contributing Less?
Research Deluge - Are Researchers Writing More yet Contributing Less?
Sneha Kulkarni from Editage takes a look at the ever-increasing global scientific output, and asks questions about quantity versus quality.
In Latest Sign of Its Resurgence, Clarivate Acquires Kopernio
Today, Clarivate is announcing that it recently acquired Kopernio, a startup launched last year to streamline access to scholarly content.
On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing
Firsthand account about the experience of racism in scholarly publishing, showing we have "a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do" to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry.
Peer Review Fails to Prevent Publication of Paper with Unsupported Claims About Peer Review
Peer Review Fails to Prevent Publication of Paper with Unsupported Claims About Peer Review
A flawed article claiming that manuscripts don't change much between being preprints and published articles somehow makes it through peer review unchanged.
Preprints and Citations: Should Non-Peer Reviewed Material Be Included in Article References?
Preprints and Citations: Should Non-Peer Reviewed Material Be Included in Article References?
Should we treat preprints the same way that we treat reviewed and published material? If so, how can we make that clear to readers?
A Curious Blindness Among Peer Review Initiatives
Overlooking the need for paid Editorial Office staff hobbles many attempts to reform peer review.
An Open Letter to the AAUP: Faculty Authors and "Full Freedom in Publication"
In 1940, the AAUP published a Statement on Academic Freedom. In 2018, it's time for it to be updated--and some items clarified.
Open Access Technology Options
Organizations launching OA journals have many choices to make. What are their technology options?
The Case for the Megajournal
In the early days of digital, we were led to believe that the economics of scarcity would be repealed by the removal of supply constraints in the digital world. But that hasn’t happened.
Elsevier is a Library's Best Friend
Elsevier is often thought to be the enemy of academic libraries, but in fact its practices improve libraries and lower costs.
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