Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Sami Benchekroun of Morressier
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Sami Benchekroun, CEO of Morressier, which provides publishers with workflows that ensure research integrity.
Who Would Have Thought That We Needed Another Listserv?
Open Café, a new listserv dedicated to the free and open discussion of open scholarship has been met with enthusiasm by the scholarly communication community.
What if the Earth Suddenly Stopped Spinning?
XKCD’s Randall Munroe has launched a video series around his “What If?” books and today answers the question, what if the earth stopped spinning?
Protecting Commercial AI Rights is Harder than You Think — EU Edition
Legislation often lags technological advances. The EU’s Digital Single Market Copyright Directive leaves many open questions regarding AI text- and data-mining.
How We Work, AI, and Human Engagement
In this post Robert Harington looks to Hannah Arendt, and her 1958 book, The Human Condition for help in understanding the nature of how we work, asking how an AI world may affect the nature of our work.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Maria Gould of ROR
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Alice Meadows interviewed Director Maria Gould for today’s Kitchen Essentials post.
The Second Digital Transformation
The scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. Today, Ithaka S+R reviews this strategic landscape as part of a broader analysis of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.
Reading: It Can’t Be About the Numbers
How many books do we read in a year? Wouldn’t a better question be how well, how thoughtfully we had engaged with long-form content?
Let’s Be Cautious As We Cede Reading to Machines
AI might help with the deluge of content, but there are problems when we rely on machines to think for us.
#PIDfest – Bringing the PID Community Back Together Again!
There’s a new PID conference in town – PIDfest will take place at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague on June 11-13, 2024. Learn more in this post by Mary Beth Barilla and Alice Meadows, respectively,chairs of the Marketing & Communications and Programme Committees
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Stephanie Orphan of arXiv
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Stephanie Orphan, Program Director of arXiv, the e-print repository.
Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness: What is Racial Battle Fatigue?
As we strive for a more equitable and inclusive future, how can we foster the well-being and potential of every individual, regardless of their ethnic or racial background?
A Salute to Library Book Binding and its NISO Standard
You’re probably familiar with “library binding” of books. But just what does that entail?
“Mrs. Foster Has Sworn A Rape”; or, What Do We Owe? Generosity, Attribution, and the Perilous Invisibility of Research Infrastructure
Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated.
Guest Post — Society Publishers Respond to Plan S “Towards Responsible Publishing” Proposal
Three global society publishers respond to cOAlition S’s recent “Towards responsible publishing, a proposal from cOAlition S”.