Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are imperiled.
As the SSP’s Annual Meeting for 2022 comes to a close, Jennifer Regala offers thoughts on what you can do to support and build our community.
A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
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.
Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.
Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field’s use of potentially offensive language.
An interview with Julian Wilson about IOP Publishing’s new transformative agreement with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.
Haseeb Irfanullah explores the Global North-South divide in scholarly publishing ethics in the context of sustainable development.
What can research societies do to improve accessibility and equity in Open Research? Haseeb Irfanullah suggests ways we can transform our outlook and efforts.
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”
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!”
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”.
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”.
Why aren’t libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.
An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.