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Know Better, Do Better: Learned Publishing Reflects on DEIA in Scholarly Communications

The first 2023 issue of Learned Publishing reflects on how to make lasting, meaningful improvements to our industry's diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA).

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 7, 2023
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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Jay Flynn

Robert Harington talks to Jay Flynn, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Research at Wiley, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 6, 2023
  • 2 Comments

A Library of Air

A visit to another of the world’s fascinating archives, this time to Australia’s Library of Air.

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 3, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Are We Providing What Researchers Need in the Transition to Open Science?

There are still barriers and hesitations around open research practices. Erika Pastrana and Simon Adar suggest that publishers and technology platforms can better support authors and drive uptake.

  • By Erika Pastrana, Simon Adar
  • Feb 2, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Revisiting: Interstitial Publishing

Looking back at a 2015 post on the idea of interstitial publishing, a new form of publishing that aims to take advantage of what previously was viewed as lost time in between primary events during the day.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Feb 1, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.

  • By Hong Zhou, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Jan 31, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Steven Inchcoombe

Robert Harington talks to Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 30, 2023
  • 3 Comments

SSP and Scholarly Kitchen Swag — Support the SSP Generations Fund!

Check out our stylish new line of SSP and Scholarly Kitchen merchandise and support the SSP’s Generations Fund in the process!

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 27, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home?

In preparation for a presentation, Curtis Kendrick tried ChatGPT to see what it (they?) had to say. The results at first seemed credible, but where ChatGPT failed miserably was in the non-existent citations it provided.

  • By Curtis Kendrick
  • Jan 26, 2023
  • 15 Comments

Why PID Strategies Are Having A Moment — And Why You Should Care

Why are national PID strategies having a moment, and why should you care? Find out in today’s post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 25, 2023
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post — “We are ready to move forward”: A Professional Society’s Route to Open Access

The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.

  • By Steven Arndt
  • Jan 24, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Mandy Hill

Robert Harington talks to Mandy Hill, Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press in this new series of perspectives from some of publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 23, 2023
  • 3 Comments

The Dangers of Automation: Keep Your Pokemon-playing Fish Away from Your Credit Cards

A YouTuber sets up a system where the swimming patterns of his fish let them “play” Pokemon online. What could possibly go wrong?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 20, 2023
  • 1 Comment

The Dea(r)th of Social Media? Assessing “Twexit”

The brave new world post-Twitter, or post-the Old Twitter, or has anything really changed? Chefs ponder the new social media.

  • By Karin Wulf, Angela Cochran, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, David Crotty
  • Jan 19, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Guest Post – AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts

A recap of a recent SSP webinar on artificial intelligence (AI) and scholarly publishing. How can this set of technologies help or harm scholarly publishing, and what are some current trends? What are the risks of AI, and what should we look out for?

  • By Anita de Waard
  • Jan 18, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Measuring Metadata Impacts: Books Discoverability in Google Scholar

Although Google Scholar claims to not use DOI metadata in its search index, a recent study finds that books with DOIs are generally more discoverable than those without DOIs.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Michelle Urberg
  • Jan 17, 2023
  • 9 Comments
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