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The Latest in Spider Necrobiotics

The latest in soft robotics research finds materials from an unexpected source.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 5, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Scientific Journeys: A Physicist Explores the Culture, History and Personalities of Science – A Book Review

Robert Harington reviews Fred Dylla’s book, Scientific Journeys: A Physicist Explores the Culture, History and Personalities of Science, a collection of prose pieces that portray the author’s approach to a world of science and the science of the world.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Aug 4, 2022
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Guest Post — Why Transformative Agreements Should Offer Unlimited Open Access Publishing

Julian Wilson from IOPP explains the benefits offered by unlimited transformative agreements.

  • By Julian Wilson
  • Aug 3, 2022
  • 5 Comments

Tribalism, Fraud, and the Loss of Perspective in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

A recent data falsification scandal in Alzheimer’s research raises new questions about perverse incentives in the culture and practice of science.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Aug 2, 2022
  • 15 Comments

An Action Plan for Accessible Images: Practical Solutions for Publishers, Platforms, and Providers

Accessible images deliver an inclusive reading experience and unlock the numerous benefits of data-rich accessible images. This post summarizes a 2022 SSP panel offering practical solutions for ensuring scholarly image collections and in-line graphics are fully accessible to all readers.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Caroline Desrosiers, Hannah F. Heckner, Michelle Urberg
  • Aug 1, 2022
  • 1 Comment

A Time Travel Guide to Ancient Rome

The Scholarly Kitchen has, over the years, offered significant resources for the potential time traveler. Here, a guide to visiting Ancient Rome.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 29, 2022
  • 3 Comments

SDG Publishers Compact: Where Do We Stand Now?

Haseeb Irfanullah reviews progress that publishers have made towards supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Jul 28, 2022
  • 6 Comments

#ProTip for Authors: There’s More to Writing Your Manuscript Than Just the Text

Authors need to understand more about producing web documents, particularly accessibility, if they want to forgo traditional publishing.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 27, 2022
  • 1 Comment

The End of Journal Impact Factor Purgatory (and Numbers to the Thousandths)

Clarivate Analytics announced today that all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection will get Impact Factors raising questions about the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Further, Clarivate will only report Impact Factors to the first decimal devaluing journal rank in subject categories.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Jul 26, 2022
  • 26 Comments

Guest Post —  UK Law and Artificial Intelligence:  UK IPO Issues Problematic Report

CCC’s Roy Kaufman looks at the potential impacts of a new UK proposal allowing for commercial text- and data-mining of copyrighted materials.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Jul 25, 2022
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Summer Break

We’re on summer break for a week.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 18, 2022
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Found in a Library Book

The Oakland Public Library shows us what they’ve found.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 15, 2022
  • 3 Comments

Revisiting — Building Pipes and Fixing Leaks: Demystifying and Decoding Scholarly Information Discovery & Interchange

A look back at Julie Zhu’s 2019 post that discusses publisher strategies and industry standards for tending to the “plumbing” of content discovery and access.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Julie Zhu
  • Jul 14, 2022
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — Leveraging the Digital ABCs: AI, Big Data, and Cloud Computing

In today’s guest post, Hong Zhou and Megan Prosser of Atypon explore how new technology and new ideas — specifically around AI, Big Data, and Cloud computing – can advance our industry.

  • By Hong Zhou, Megan Prosser
  • Jul 13, 2022
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Revisiting: Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?

Rick Anderson revisits a 2020 post: One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 12, 2022
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