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Questioning Our Assumptions in Publishing Innovations: Inspiration from the Story of Indigital

Mikaela Jade and the Indigital app inspire us to question our privileged assumptions of “the user” in information design.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 4, 2019
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Thinking about the Art and Science of Image Description: An Interview with textBOX Founders

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the folks at textBOX can help publishers present that descriptive text (“alt-text”) to the online world, meeting key accessibility and discoverability demands.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Sep 10, 2019
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The Robots are Writing: Will Machine-Generated Books Accelerate our Consumption of Scholarly Literature?

Does Springer Nature’s first machine-generated book usher in a new era of authorship? Or readership? Are the robots writing?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 25, 2019
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Investing in the Researcher Experience

Last week’s ACRL and STM conferences demonstrated that libraries and publishers have a renewed desire to understand the researcher experience and embrace the scholarly information practices that will define our future.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Apr 18, 2019
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Of Paywalls and Proxies: The Buzz about Access at ER&L 2019

This year’s ER&L conference was abuzz with the threats and solutions for digital access in libraries.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Mar 19, 2019
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Editorial Independence and Journal Ownership in the Age of Open Science

The editorial board for the Journal of Informetrics declared checkmate when they resigned over Elsevier’s open access and open citations policies. Raising both practical and moral questions of journal ownership, the editors of Learning Publishing ask: What can this power move tell us about editorial ownership in the age of open science?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 12, 2019
  • 21 Comments

Exclusive Deals in Scholarly Discovery: How they Hurt Users and Pose Threats to Open Scholarship

Exclusive indexing deals in scholarly discovery hurt researchers and undermine the drive toward comprehensive library search.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Dec 4, 2018
  • 25 Comments

Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2018 Part 1

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.

  • By Rick Anderson, Alice Meadows, Joseph Esposito, Lettie Y. Conrad, Robert Harington
  • Nov 20, 2018
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Mapping Open Science Tools

A fresh mapping of open-science tools for the researcher workflow reveals numerous gaps and opportunities for software solutions in the name of scientific progress.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Aug 30, 2018
  • 1 Comment

The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as well as Retrieval?

We have seen a surge in scientifically minded search engines and browser extensions that aim to supercharge content discovery — have they cracked the code in mainstream search and retrieval of scholarly literature?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 28, 2018
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