Engaging with Your Community to Effect Change: An Irish Case Study
In today’s post Alice Meadows shares a case study of community engagement in Ireland as part of the country’s plans to develop a national persistent identifier (PID) strategy
Guest Post: Time to Rethink Usage Analytics
Users (human and machine) are accessing scholarly content in new ways, challenging traditional usage analytics models. In this guest post, Tim Lloyd outlines the challenges ahead in quantifying usage.
Guest Post — Equitable Scholarly Communication: Realistic or Idealistic?
Daniel Dollar offers an update on the work being done by Research4Life and a call for action.
Lessons Learned from a Fair Use Defeat
Several weeks ago, the Internet Archive lost its appeal of the lawsuit brought by a group of publishers opposed to its controlled digital lending programs. Roger Schonfeld examines what can be learned from this fair use defeat.
Guest Post: Behind Every Paper is a Person – Reviewer Comments Matter
IOP Publishing offers a short video that draws attention to the importance of professional and constructive peer reviews.
Embracing Innovation: Insights from Peer Review Leaders on Managing Technological Change
The real challenge in implementing new peer review technologies lies in managing the human and organizational changes required to make these innovations stick. Three experts share their insights into how they are leading their teams through these transformative processes.
Innovation and Technology in Peer Review: Some User Perspectives
In today’s Peer Review Week post we hear perspectives on innovation and technology in peer review from a diverse group of users from different countries and disciplines.
Guest Post — From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: AI’s Role in the Future of Peer Review
Peer review needs reform. AI systems can act as assistants, providing valuable feedback for both reviewers and editors.
Guest Post — Is AI the Answer to Peer Review Problems, or the Problem Itself?
Are there ways to use AI in the research workflow to speed up the peer review process — and, while we’re at it, to address some of the other problems around bias and quality?
Some Thoughts on the Promise and Pitfalls of Innovation and Technology in Peer Review
Today Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf officially kick off a week of posts to celebrate Peer Review Week 2024 on the Kitchen with their thoughts on the promise and pitfalls of innovation and technology in peer review
New Directions Seminar: Don’t Miss this Fall’s Best Industry Event!
Whether you choose to attend virtually or in person, do not miss this year’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing seminar!
Peer Review Week 2024: Ask the Chefs
Leading into Peer Review Week 2024, we ask the Chefs: What is, or would be, the most valuable innovation in peer review for your community?
Sex and the Serious Reader
No, we’re not advocating anything lascivious. But a reading experience requires a degree of engagement that one essayist overlooks.
Ask the Community — Thoughts on a Class Action Lawsuit Brought Against Scholarly Publishers
Antitrust litigation has been filed against six major scholarly publishers. We reached out to the community for their thoughts.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Ask the Mental Health Editors: Part Two
Part Two in this series of posts where editors within the mental health and psychiatry sector offer their thoughts on the current landscape of scholarly publishing and how it is impacting our discussions and actions around mental health.