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Guest Post — Has Peer Review Created a Toxic Culture in Academia? Moving from ‘Battering’ to ‘Bettering’ in the Review of Academic Research

Avi Staiman suggests revamping the peer review process to make it less about tearing down the work of others, and more about helping authors improve their papers.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Aug 16, 2022
  • 31 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

#ProTip for Authors: There’s More to Writing Your Manuscript Than Just the Text

Authors need to understand more about producing web documents, particularly accessibility, if they want to forgo traditional publishing.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 27, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Revisiting: Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?

Rick Anderson revisits a 2020 post: One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 12, 2022
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Revisiting — Return of the Big Brands: How Legacy Publishers Will Coopt Open Access

Revisiting a 2015 post that predicted the dominance of the cascade model of journal portfolio publishing and the increased dominance of the larger existing publishers in an open access market.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jun 29, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Striking the Right Chord with Millennial and GenZ Researchers

To what extent are scholarly publishers and societies actively engaging with early career researchers? Findings from a white paper, and polls at the SSP annual meeting, are shared.

  • By Nikesh Gosalia
  • Jun 23, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Desperately Seeking (Statistical) Significance

Twitter does not increase citations, a reanalysis of author data shows. Did the authors p-hack their data?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 15, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Marketing to the New Generation of Academic Influencers: Mobile First, SEO, Values-led Content and Initiatives

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 13, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Fill in the Blank Leads to More Citations

When a reputable journal refuses to get involved with a questionable paper, science looks less like a self-correcting enterprise and more like a way to amass media attention.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 8, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Struggling to Meet a Deadline? Japan’s Manuscript Writing Cafe is Here to Help

A cafe in Japan helps writers overcome their procrastination.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 6, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Fraud and Peer Review: An Interview with Melinda Baldwin

Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2022
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – Plan S and Scholarly Publishing: Some Lessons Learned

Sally Ekanayaka reviews a webinar featuring several key players in implementing Plan S and asks what lessons have been learned?

  • By Sally Ekanayaka
  • Mar 8, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post: Preprint Feedback is Here – Let’s Make it Constructive and FAST

ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.

  • By Sandra Franco Iborra, Jessica Polka, Iratxe Puebla
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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