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A Dissonance of Ideals: Openness, Copyright, and AI

Robert Harington attempts to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhanced discovery that comes with AI’s large language models (LLMs).

  • By Robert Harington
  • Nov 25, 2024
  • 5 Comments

Guest Post: Supply Chain of Writing Fools

While Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools” referred to betrayal of trust in love, when it comes to AI use of our work, writers feel betrayed by those who should be protecting our intellectual and creative property.

  • By Janet Salmons
  • Nov 20, 2024
  • 13 Comments

First-Hand Publishing Experiences: Researcher Panel at SSP’s New Directions Seminar

A diverse panel of researchers shared their first-hand publishing experiences at the 2024New Directions seminar.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Avriel Licciardi
  • Nov 6, 2024
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Scholarly Publishing: The Elephant (And Other Wildlife) In The Room

Journal-based scholarly communication needs a structural change

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 24, 2024
  • 8 Comments

The Chicken or Egg Problem — Should Publishers Mandate Graphical Abstracts or Let Authors Lead the Way?

If we want to broaden the audience base for research outputs, then authors need to explore more visual formats for readers to consume. The graphical abstract is one such format.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Oct 10, 2024
  • 10 Comments

Guest Post: Behind Every Paper is a Person – Reviewer Comments Matter

IOP Publishing offers a short video that draws attention to the importance of professional and constructive peer reviews.

  • By Laura Feetham-Walker
  • Sep 27, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Is AI the Answer to Peer Review Problems, or the Problem Itself?

Are there ways to use AI in the research workflow to speed up the peer review process — and, while we’re at it, to address some of the other problems around bias and quality?

  • By Christopher Leonard
  • Sep 24, 2024
  • 5 Comments

Peer Review Week 2024: Ask the Chefs

Leading into Peer Review Week 2024, we ask the Chefs: What is, or would be, the most valuable innovation in peer review for your community?

  • By Alice Meadows, Avi Staiman, Hong Zhou, Karin Wulf, Tim Vines, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Sep 20, 2024
  • 3 Comments

Ask the Community — Thoughts on a Class Action Lawsuit Brought Against Scholarly Publishers

Antitrust litigation has been filed against six major scholarly publishers. We reached out to the community for their thoughts.

  • By David Crotty, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Sven Fund, Sami Benchekroun, Rick Anderson, Matt Hodgkinson, A.J. Boston, Alison Mudditt
  • Sep 18, 2024
  • 12 Comments

Ensuring attribution is critical when licensing content to AI developers

Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Sep 4, 2024
  • 6 Comments

Resetting and Recharging Research Communications in the Sun of Los Angeles: A FORCE11 Conference Report

The FORCE11 conference at UCLA lays the groundwork to continue its efforts to transform research communications and e-scholarship.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Aug 14, 2024
  • 2 Comments

Should Publishers Invoice Authors for Retraction Costs?

It is essential to address the hidden costs of retraction and to discuss who needs to bear this cost.

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Chirag Jay Patel
  • Aug 8, 2024
  • 8 Comments

Guest Post — Never Waste a Good Crisis: A Conversation with Klaas Sijtsma, Former Rector Magnificus of Tilburg University

An interview with Klaas Sijtsma discussing the importance of statistical analysis in research integrity.

  • By Natalie Simon
  • Aug 7, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk

Do publishers really understand what tools researchers are using and how they are using them? Can we do more to create better policies based on real use cases and not hypothetical conjecture about what AI might do in the future?

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Jul 22, 2024
  • 7 Comments

Oxford Administrators Want OA Policy Removed from REF 2029. I Have an Even Better Idea.

Three Oxford administrators want to lower the cost of mandatory open access by shifting the responsibility for enforcement to funding agencies. But that doesn’t lower costs at all; it only shifts them. To truly lower costs, stop trying to make open access mandatory.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jun 17, 2024
  • 6 Comments

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