What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing
This third episode of the SSP's Early Career Development Podcast covers the topic of ‘living under lockdown’ during the current global coronavirus pandemic.
So much change has happened in the last few months. What changes do you think will “stick” in scholarly publishing?
Major scholarly publishers have made substantial investments in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.
What is the role of book content in the Science, Technical and Medical (STM) researcher ecosystem?
A year without an annual meeting is tough to take. Here’s hoping for better times ahead.
Should the library focus first on serving its local constituency, or on changing the scholarly communication ecosystem? No matter how we answer this question, the implications will be complex.
Making journal data on decision times and acceptance rates public would be tremendously helpful for authors in their decision-making process.
Unsub is the game-changing data analysis service that is helping librarians forecast, explore, and optimize their alternatives to the Big Deal. Librarians breaking away from the Big Deal often credit Unsub as a critical component of their strategy.
In this era of COVID-19, what is the new normal for conferences in our community. Moving forward, what might a born digital conference entail?
Employee evaluation is much more difficult from afar, particularly when your employees are dogs.
With their audiences in COVID-19 lockdown, publishers are testing out new marketing strategies while some authors are taking matters into their own hands.
Sabine Louët and Karla Fallon discuss how to realize the opportunities for better communicating research results to a broader audience.
In lieu of the SSP Annual Meeeting this month, a mid-year readership report for a very strange year.
Thoughts on the new Chinese policy on research evaluation from three Chinese publishers.
Uncertain times call for distressed typography.
Christos Petrou looks at megajournal performance and the resulting business implications.