A Framework for the Future of Conferences
The sudden virtualization of conferences sparked a flurry of experimentation. It is now time to build the future of the scholarly meeting.
Publishers Still Don’t Prioritize Researchers
The digital services provided by scholarly publishers and academic libraries still do not meet researchers’ needs. Roger Schonfeld notes that doing so would require far more profound change, not just at the level of user experience but in terms of rethinking existing businesses and organizational models.
Truth and Lies
How to address lies in the political life of a democracy? Education, information literacy, gatekeeping, and dialogue are not enough. Lisa Hinchliffe and Roger Schonfeld examine the issue.
Can Publishers Maintain Control of the Scholarly Record?
The journal brand has proven to be the great intangible asset of the scholarly publisher. Can publishers extend the reach and value of journal brands by supporting research materials beyond the version of record?
The Senior Research Officer and the Academic Research Enterprise
The latest from Ithaka S+R on the academic research enterprise — how it is managed by universities, their strategic priorities for it, and the pandemic’s disruptions to it. A video of a CNI presentation by Jane Radecki, Oya Y. Rieger, and Roger C. Schonfeld.
The State of Not-for-Profit Publishing Today
In periods of disruption, commercial publishers have traditionally found opportunities to make capital investments that ultimately strengthen their relative position in the market — opportunities that are not necessarily available to their not-for-profit counterparts. With this in mind, we offer up the beginnings of an analysis of the state of not-for-profit publishing today.
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Academic Library Budgets: Fall 2020
The pandemic has wrought profound disruption on the academic sector. Today, we share findings from a major research project about the budget situation in US academic libraries.
Are Publishers Learning from Their Mistakes?
Publishers have retracted more than 20 COVID-related papers. Are they learning from their mistakes and fixing process failures?
Preprints and Author Services: An Interview with Rachel Burley and Eugenie Regan
Springer Nature recently invested further in Research Square Company to become majority owner of this preprint and author services platform. Today, an interview with Rachel Burley and Eugenie Regan about what to expect.
Syndication Success: A Report from the Springer Nature and ResearchGate Pilot
Results of this partnership signal we should expect future expansion of content syndication.
Good vs. Evil? Finding the Right Mix of For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Services
Today, Joe and Roger analyze the variety of firms to which the academy can outsource scholarly communication and adjacent priorities: consortia, societies, and commercial enterprises.
Publishers Invest in Preprints
Major scholarly publishers have made substantial investments in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.
Forecasting the US Higher Education Market: A Primer
As scholarly publishers reforecast and consider strategic directions, here is a primer on the US higher education market
To Bundle or Not to Bundle? That Is the Question
Some libraries are seeking transformative agreements, others are unbundling the Big Deal. Can major publishers reestablish value without a major revenue sacrifice?
Academic Libraries at a Pivotal Moment
New findings from Ithaka S+R provide the most recent and comprehensive evidence for how academic library acquisitions and open access initiatives may proceed in light of the present disruptions