Who Would Have Thought That We Needed Another Listserv?
Open Café, a new listserv dedicated to the free and open discussion of open scholarship has been met with enthusiasm by the scholarly communication community.
“Mrs. Foster Has Sworn A Rape”; or, What Do We Owe? Generosity, Attribution, and the Perilous Invisibility of Research Infrastructure
Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated.
Guest Post — Study Questions Whether Research Institutions Are the Appropriate Entity to Investigate Authorship Disputes in All Cases
Should the authors’ institution make decisions regarding authorship disputes on a paper?
Trust in Scholarly Publishing
How do we define, track, and measure trust in scholarly publishing?
Guest Post — Hanging in the Balance: Generative AI Versus Scholarly Publishing
Balancing the anxiety and the excitement over the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in scholarly publishing.
Can Academia Afford a Holiday Hiatus from Publish or Perish?
As we contemplate a pause during the holiday season, we must ask ourselves: Isn’t the researcher’s overall well-being as crucial as the research itself?
The Necessity of Book Reviews
Is the scholar-to-scholar exchange found in book reviews still of value to the community? There is concern over their decline.
Ask The Chefs: cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing”
We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.
Redefining “Normal” in Academia
The traditional “normal” in academia often lacks the richness and dynamism required for robust intellectual discourse and innovation. How can we cultivate a “personalized normal” that celebrates the uniqueness of researchers and empowers them to communicate their discoveries innovatively?
Smorgasbord: eLife and Significance vs. Accuracy, The Collapse of the Humanities, and a new NISO Draft on Retractions Standards
A mixed bag post from us — can you separate out the significance of research results from their validity? What will the collapse of the Humanities mean for scholarly publishing writ large? And a new draft set of recommended practices for communicating retractions, removals, and expressions of concern.
AI and Scholarly Societies
Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future.
The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen
The American Chemical Society is offering a new approach to funding open-access articles; Rick Anderson interviews Sarah Tegen about it.
Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action
Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.
Publishers, Don’t Use AI Detection Tools!
The challenges offered by artificial intelligence require a different approach than that seen for plagiarism detection.
Having the Courage to Explain Research in Plain Language
The Curse of Knowledge is when we assume everyone else understands what we’re talking about, when they don’t. Good communication happens when we have the courage to make it simple.