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Guest Post: Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward

A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.

  • By A.J. Boston
  • Apr 26, 2022
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post – New Winds from the Latin American Scientific Publishing Community

Ana Heredia and Eloisa Viggiani discuss the founding of the Latin American Association of Scientific Editors, and focus on the use of metrics and the role of the region’s scientific journals in research evaluation.

  • By Ana Heredia, Eloisa Viggiani
  • Mar 28, 2022
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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

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

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

Connecting Sustainable Development, Publishing Ethics, and the North-South Divide

Haseeb Irfanullah explores the Global North-South divide in scholarly publishing ethics in the context of sustainable development.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Feb 8, 2022
  • 4 Comments

Our Societies, Journals, and the Narrative of Accessibility and Equity in Open Research

What can research societies do to improve accessibility and equity in Open Research? Haseeb Irfanullah suggests ways we can transform our outlook and efforts.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Dec 13, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 4

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “Retrogression Research and Limiting Diversity: the Impact of the Pandemic on Scholarly Publishing’s Inequities”

  • By Steph Pollock, Sneha K. Rhode, Susan J. Harris, Timothy McAdoo, Jiayun Wang
  • Dec 2, 2021
  • 0 Comments

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 3

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “Accelerating DEI: Have the Data? Use the Data!”

  • By Susan Spilka, Nicola Poser, Michelle Urberg
  • Dec 1, 2021
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Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 2

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “The Glass Ceiling You Don’t Know About Yet”.

  • By Simon Holt, Georgie Field, Nicola Poser, Damita Snow, Hannah Vinchur, George Neame
  • Nov 30, 2021
  • 2 Comments

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting Part 1

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at Dr. Joseph Williams’s keynote, “Fighting Racial Inequity in the Publishing Industry”.

  • By Cason Lynley, Miranda Walker, Steven D. Smith, George Neame, Dana Compton
  • Nov 29, 2021
  • 0 Comments

What (Not) to Do When Libraries Won’t Get on Board

Why aren’t libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 4, 2021
  • 14 Comments

Does the World Need an Academic Integrity Awareness Index? An Interview with Helen Zhang

An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.

  • By Tao Tao
  • Nov 2, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post: Empowering Young Scientists Through Publication – 10 years of the Journal of Emerging Investigators

Today’s post looks back on the Journal of Emerging Investigators as it approaches it’s 10th anniversary of providing a forum from middle school and high school students.

  • By Kari Mattison
  • Oct 26, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Gerald Beasley Interviews Timon Oefelein (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 2 of this pair of posts we turn the tables and Gerald Beasley interviews Timon Oefelein of Springer Nature about how publishers can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Gerald R. Beasley
  • Oct 8, 2021
  • 3 Comments
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