What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing
A simulation of what Neil Armstrong saw as he guided the lunar module in for a landing made via NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera.
In a world of face-paced constant change, individual development and evolution is critical. What new skills have you developed in the past 5 years and why?
The idea of starting over with new peer review management system can make you break out in a cold sweat. Karen Stanwood offers her experience and lessons learned for those considering making a move.
Springer Nature is leading in the effort to preserve library subscriptions by syndicating its content and, in doing so, would establish ResearchGate as perhaps the foremost service for the distribution of scholarly content. Analysis by @lisalibrarian and @rschon.
Heather Staines shares highlights of this year’s Library Publishing Coalition Forum, especially the focus on open platforms and tools.
A Friday video showing different things around the world that are called, “American”.
Guest blogger Julie Zhu discusses publisher strategies and industry standards for tending to the “plumbing” of content discovery and access.
As the amount of scholarship continues to grow, Common Threads asks what new insights and utility can be found in reorganization of content for new audiences.
What could motivate researchers to get involved in global evidence-informed policy influencing processes such as the one led by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – and how can we ensure diversity of researchers and research sources?
Welcoming a new Chef in the Kitchen, Haseeb Irfanullah.
A lot of people talk about Agile project management and how effective it can be. They also talk about how hard it is to get executive buy-in. The disconnect is caused by a lack of understanding of how Agile reduces risk.
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So does Sci-Hub lead libraries to cancel journals, or doesn’t it? Maybe the answer isn’t a simple yes or no.
Jasmin Lange from Brill suggests a path forward for open access in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Judy Luther takes an in-depth look at Unizin, a consortial effort by universities to build open source digital learning systems.
A Friday video offering 50 different regional accents from 50 states in America.