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Guest Post: Supply Chain of Writing Fools

While Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools” referred to betrayal of trust in love, when it comes to AI use of our work, writers feel betrayed by those who should be protecting our intellectual and creative property.

  • By Janet Salmons
  • Nov 20, 2024
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Is it Over Now (Social Media Version)?

In 2023 we twice assessed the social media landscape and with the explosion of Bluesky over the last weeks it seemed a good time to reassess. How do Chefs use social media differently now, and what are they seeing as platforms of choice or opportunity?

  • By Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Todd A Carpenter, Lettie Y. Conrad, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Alice Meadows, Charlie Rapple, David Crotty
  • Nov 19, 2024
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Supporting our people at IOP Publishing: A Strategic Imperative in a Changing Publishing Landscape

Dr. Mikka Lene Pers discusses how a company can prioritize the health and happiness of its employees to not only enhance individual wellbeing but also contribute to the overall success and resilience of the organization.  

  • By Mikka Lene Pers
  • Nov 18, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Difficulties of Reproducing a Scientific Experiment

Reproducing an experiment is harder than you might think.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 15, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Anita Bandrowski of SciCrunch

In today’s post is a Kitchen Essentials interview, Anita Bandrowski, CEO and Co-founder of SciCrunch, talks to Alice Meadows about what they do and why it’s important, her thoughts on working in scholarly infrastructure, and more…

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Nov 14, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – Driving Change in Ukrainian Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with Ganna Kharlamova

An interview with Ganna Kharlamova, who is working to changing the way scholarly communications and publishing are conducted in Ukraine.

  • By Frances Pinter, Ganna Kharlamova
  • Nov 13, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Green Open Access – Free for Authors But at a Cost for Readers

Pursuit of Green open access rather than Gold not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 12, 2024
  • 72 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

How the SDGs Are Shaping the Research Agenda, and What Publishers Need to Know and Do

Insights from a recent study looking at how the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are influencing research, including recommendations for publishers’ next steps.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

It’s a New World? Revisiting What Universities — and Researchers, Libraries, and Publishers — Owe Democracy

In light of recent events, we revisit Karin Wulf’s 2022 post which declared that universities need democracy, and vice versa, and discussed an important book which shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do as both are imperiled.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Nov 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Paywalls are Not the Only Barriers to Access: Accessibility is Critical to Equitable Access

Digital accessibility to the scholarly communications process is core to providing equitable access to the literature.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

First-Hand Publishing Experiences: Researcher Panel at SSP’s New Directions Seminar

A diverse panel of researchers shared their first-hand publishing experiences at the 2024New Directions seminar.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Avriel Licciardi
  • Nov 6, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Top Ten Challenges, Needs, and Goals of Publishers – and How AI Can Help in Digital Transformation and the Open Science Movement

As artificial intelligence begins to play an ever-bigger role in the scholarly publishing landscape, how might it help solve some of the biggest challenges facing publishers?

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 5, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays – SSP Launches the Mental Health Awareness and Action Community of Interest Group

The Society for Scholarly Publishing is launching the Mental Health Awareness and Action Community of Interest (CoIN) Group.

  • By Randy Townsend
  • Nov 4, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Halloween Over, Still Scary Times — Please Vote!

Halloween has concluded, but things are still looking scary in the US for public health.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 1, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Wiley Leans into AI. The Community Should Lean with Them.

An interview with Wiley SVP Josh Jarrett about their work improving publishing processes with AI and licensing content for AI applications.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 31, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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