The Quest for Home: Transforming from Grant-funded Project to Sustainable Operation
Grant-funded initiatives eventually need a permanent home; here are some lessons learned from Educopia’s Katherine Skinner and Christina Drummond.
10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 2)
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 1)
An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.
Guest Post — Hybrid Versus In-person: What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences?
Marco Marabelli reports on the results of a study looking at the benefits and problems of remote and hybrid conferences, and what the changes in recent years will mean for meetings going forward.
The End of the iPod
This week marks the end of an era, as the iPod is officially discontinued.
Guest Post — What Do Library-Publisher Relations Look Like in 2022?
The AUPresses Library Relations Committee asks Peter Berkery and Mary Lee Kennedy to share their thoughts about how relations between publishers and libraries have changed.
Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?
A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?
Is Infrastructure Consolidation the Next Step? CCC Acquires Ringgold
In the light of CCCs acquisition of Ringgold last week, three Chefs, Phill Jones, Roger Schonfeld, and Todd Carpenter reflect on the motivations for the move and its implications for PIDs and organisational identifiers.
Ask the Community: Why Do You Volunteer?
As the long-awaited, in-person SSP Annual Meeting approaches, we are hosting two events where prospective volunteers can learn about opportunities within the Society. We asked members of the community to share: which organization(s) do you volunteer for and why?
Struggling to Meet a Deadline? Japan’s Manuscript Writing Cafe is Here to Help
A cafe in Japan helps writers overcome their procrastination.
Weaponizing the Research Community
The research community is increasingly caught up in geopolitical events and strategies.
Guest Post — Open Access in Japan: Tapping the Stone Bridge
Matthew Salter takes a look at the new open access policy from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
The New STM Integrity Hub
Interview with Joris van Rossum and Hylke Koers about the new STM Integrity Hub service launch and its potential future developments.
A Reorganization at Elsevier
Today, Judy Verses starts as Elsevier’s President for Academic and Government, completing CEO Kumsal Bayazit’s market-based leadership structure for platform-driven corporate strategy.
Humanities and Graduate Education: The Crisis is Real, but Not New
A new study offers — surprise — mostly bad news about the state of Humanities graduate education. Even while we know how important humanistic perspectives are for, well, humanity.