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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.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 19, 2021
  • 11 Comments

Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability

Journalists are increasingly flagging unsupported claims and blatant falsehoods–it’s time for preprint platforms to do the same.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Dec 14, 2020
  • 18 Comments

What a Mangled Press Conference on COVID Can Tell Us About the Need for Good Data Storytelling

Last week the UK government COVID held a press briefing in an attempt to get the country behind new travel and social restrictions. What lessons can we learn from this bad example of how not to present evidence to support our positions?

  • By Phill Jones
  • Nov 9, 2020
  • 13 Comments

There is No Truth, There is Only Workflow

The crisis of information integrity is real. Integrity of workflow — analyses of process, investment in process, transparency of process — is the intervention

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Nov 2, 2020
  • 9 Comments

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?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 19, 2020
  • 10 Comments

Guest Post — Risks from Self-Referential Peer Review: An Interview with Jeffrey Unerman

Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Bahar Mehmani of Elsevier, who interviewed Professor Jeffrey Unerman about his work on the risks of self-referential peer review.

  • By Bahar Mehmani
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Trust as an Ethic and a Practice in Peer Review

Chefs Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf tackle Peer Review Week 2020’s theme of Trust in Peer Review with this post on trust as both an ethic and a practice

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments

IOP Moves to Universal Double-blind Peer Review: An Interview with Kim Eggleton

Rick Anderson interviews Kim Eggleton of IOP about the publisher’s recently announced move to 100% double-blind peer review.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 10, 2020
  • 11 Comments

Guest Post — What are Academic Book Publishers for? Part 2

What have academic book publishers been for? And what might they be for, in the future? Part 2

  • By Richard Fisher
  • Sep 2, 2020
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — What are Academic Book Publishers for? Part 1

What have academic book publishers been for? And what might they be for, in the future?

  • By Richard Fisher
  • Sep 1, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Fixing the Present Requires an Understanding of History

John Oliver presents a fairly devastating look at how history is taught in America and how that has contributed to our current problems.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Intention to Tweet: Medical Study Reports Tweets Improve Citations

A paper linking tweets and citations comes under attack, but more from the authors’ inability to answer even basic questions about their paper and resistance to share their data.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jul 6, 2020
  • 8 Comments

Chinese Publishers React to New Policies on Research Evaluation

Thoughts on the new Chinese policy on research evaluation from three Chinese publishers.

  • By Tao Tao
  • May 11, 2020
  • 6 Comments

A Font for these Uncertain Times

Uncertain times call for distressed typography.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 8, 2020
  • 4 Comments

Helping Researchers Communicate Their Findings to the World: An Interview with Emma Feloy of Research Outreach

Research Outreach is a young company that helps researchers make their work more easily intelligible to a lay audience. Editorial Director Emma Feloy answers some questions about how their service works.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • 8 Comments
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lisalibrarianLisa Janicke Hinchliffe@lisalibrarian·
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It is uncanny how quickly preprint servers are turning into journals. https://twitter.com/MikeTaylor/status/1351954826914111494

Mike Tⓐylor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@MikeTaylor

@biorxivpreprint I mean, seriously, when I said years ago that I was done shopping manuscripts around among different journals, I never BELIEVED that in 2021 I would be shopping manuscripts around among different preprint servers.

Why, yes, I AM livid, thank you for asking.

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Be sure to read "Historians in Historic Times" by our very own @kawulf over on @scholarlykitchn - important reflections shared about the difficulties and triumphs of the current moment, all from a variety of wonderful historians (many #WomenAlsoKnowHistory!). 👏 Link below 👇 https://twitter.com/kawulf/status/1351911746492100610

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For @scholarlykitchn, AHA member @kawulf has compiled reflections from ten historians on “living through this moment of pandemic and political crisis, and how the subject of their scholarship and/or the practice of history feels relevant and resonant.” https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/01/14/historians-in-historic-times/

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Scholarship, published well, for the win.

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