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Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?

A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 11, 2022
  • 16 Comments

Weaponizing the Research Community

The research community is increasingly caught up in geopolitical events and strategies.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 5, 2022
  • 8 Comments

A New Twist on a Publishing Scam: Ghost-authoring Book Reviews for Fun and Profit

In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 5, 2022
  • 13 Comments

Guest Post – Cybersecurity and Academic Libraries: Findings from a Recent Survey

Susie Winter reviews recent data on cybersecurity for academic libraries, as well as a survey of awareness and attitudes toward best practices among librarians.

  • By Susie Winter
  • Mar 21, 2022
  • 5 Comments

“Common Knowledge” and How False Facts Become Entrenched

Some scientific “urban legends” get debunked in today’s video. How does incorrect “common knowledge” become established?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 18, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Revisiting: A Parable of Innovation in Publishing — A Mostly True Story

Joe Esposito looks back at a 2011 post offering a parable of the role in innovation in publishing and makes the case that we should not criticize companies that try and fail to do new things.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 15, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Revisiting: Why Aren’t There More Women at the Top in Scholarly Publishing?

Alice Meadows revisits a post from 2013 that looked at how the scholarly publishing field fares in terms of the number of women in leadership roles. Nine years later, has anything changed?

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Mar 10, 2022
  • 27 Comments

The Burden of Knowledge: A Historian Reviews Popular Period Movies

How infuriating is it to watch a movie about your area of expertise and realize just how wrong it is?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 4, 2022
  • 9 Comments

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 — Research Integrity: Ensuring Trust in Global Research   

A look at developments in research integrity, and the attempt to build a universal culture of ethical and responsible practice in research as well as systems within the overall research ecosystem for such a culture to flourish.

  • By Natalie Simon
  • Feb 10, 2022
  • 0 Comments

How Do We Make Research Assessment More Responsible? – A Multi-stakeholder Discussion

A report on the SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force’s meeting of senior researchers, university administrators, funders, publishers, and representatives from other organizations on the topic of Responsible Research Assessment for the 21st Century.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Feb 9, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Revisiting — Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability

In light of the recent anniversary of the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we revisit Rick Anderson’s post on how journalists flag unsupported claims and blatant falsehoods, and whether preprint platforms should do the same.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 12, 2022
  • 32 Comments

Guest Post — Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations

Adeline Rosenberg offers a look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.

  • By Adeline Rosenberg
  • Nov 16, 2021
  • 2 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

Revisiting: A 2008 Look at Open Access

A look back at Joe Esposito’s 2008 essay on Open Access — what has come to pass and what has changed since then?

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Oct 29, 2021
  • 1 Comment
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