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Revisiting: Why Aren’t There More Women at the Top in Scholarly Publishing?

Alice Meadows revisits a post from 2013 that looked at how the scholarly publishing field fares in terms of the number of women in leadership roles. Nine years later, has anything changed?

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Mar 10, 2022
  • 27 Comments

Guest Post — Learning from the Experience of SSP’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting

What can the SSP learn from our experience of the virtual 2021 meeting that can inform future annual meetings, whatever the format?

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • Mar 9, 2022
  • 4 Comments

Guest Post – Plan S and Scholarly Publishing: Some Lessons Learned

Sally Ekanayaka reviews a webinar featuring several key players in implementing Plan S and asks what lessons have been learned?

  • By Sally Ekanayaka
  • Mar 8, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Accelerating Open Research: A Multi-stakeholder Discussion

Robert Harington reports on the recent SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics, who met to discuss how collaboration among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 7, 2022
  • 2 Comments

The Burden of Knowledge: A Historian Reviews Popular Period Movies

How infuriating is it to watch a movie about your area of expertise and realize just how wrong it is?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 4, 2022
  • 9 Comments

Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 3, 2022
  • 17 Comments

Decoupling from Russia

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a sudden and serious decoupling of the West from Russia. Today, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Roger Schonfeld discuss implications for research collaboration, scientific exchange, and scholarly communication.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 2, 2022
  • 24 Comments

Guest Post — Offensive or Inclusive Language in Scientific Communication?

Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field’s use of potentially offensive language.

  • By Richard de Grijs
  • Mar 1, 2022
  • 11 Comments

Guest Post: Preprint Feedback is Here – Let’s Make it Constructive and FAST

ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.

  • By Sandra Franco Iborra, Jessica Polka, Iratxe Puebla
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Wordle, The 1980s Version

What exactly is Wordle, and more importantly, what would it have looked like on a computer in the 1980s?

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 25, 2022
  • 1 Comment

IOP Publishing Strikes a Transformative Deal with CRKN: Some Questions for Julian Wilson

An interview with Julian Wilson about IOP Publishing’s new transformative agreement with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 24, 2022
  • 0 Comments

Expanded Access to Paywalled Content: A Hidden Benefit of Transformative Agreements

What has not made headlines but is also a noteworthy outcome of transformative agreements is the significant increase in access and readership for paywalled articles that they facilitate. 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Feb 23, 2022
  • 2 Comments

The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 2)

In this second of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 22, 2022
  • 3 Comments

The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 1)

In this first of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 21, 2022
  • 0 Comments

Restoring the Version of Record

The restoration of a glorious portrait raises questions about the scholarly Version of Record.

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 18, 2022
  • 6 Comments
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