What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing
A look at the long history of handedness.
The Journal of Open Source Software was designed from scratch using the principles of open source and software design practices. This has both advantages and disadvantages, particularly with respect to elements of the traditional scholarly publishing ecosystem.
We should strive for open but also be realistic about the options truly available to researchers and discuss them transparently and honestly.
As publishers and librarians draw conclusions from the last year of usage data, we must look to qualitative analysis to round out the picture of the human conditions behind the quantitative trends.
Today we revisit Geraldine Cochran’s 2018 post, which offers a chance to understand the differences between the words “diversity”, “inclusion”, and “equity”, and how that understanding can make our efforts toward progress more effective.
Randall Munroe gives us the real scoop on what scientific papers are saying. Your suggestions welcome as well.
A pilot program that seeks to deepen transnational dialogue and collaboration among mission-driven scholarly publishers.
A look at a session from last week’s CHORUS Forum that discussed new open access business models — what does it take to make them work?
Getting digitized primary source materials into the classroom requires an open dialogue among researchers, teachers, and archivists. A workshop from historians of business shows how.
How can not-for-profit organizations outcompete their commercial rivals? Revisiting Joe Esposito’s 2011 post that lays out a blueprint for success.
From the Upper Paleolithic Era up until the mid 1800s, the tally stick was a remarkably long-lived piece of technology.
Thea Sherer discusses Springer Nature’s efforts to address climate impact and how collective action can help us all do our part.
Laura Norton and Nicola Nugent of the Royal Society of Chemistry answer Alice Meadows’s questions about the RSC’s Joint Commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing
Like all OA funding models, subscribe-to-open solves some problems while creating others. Some of the downsides are pretty fundamental.
APC waivers aim to help ensure that researchers from low- and middle-income countries can publish their research. But the current system is hindered by lack of awareness, clarity and consistency. Andrea Powell proposes how publishers could improve the situation.
How big is the universe? How small is the quantum realm? The answer lies in a sheet of A4 paper…