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Illegitimate Journals and How to Stop Them: An Interview with Kelly Cobey and Larissa Shamseer

Illegitimate – or predatory – journals are on the increase. What’s more, authors from high-, middle-, and low-income countries are now known to be publishing in them. Find out why this is the case and how we can work as a community to help stop their spread, in this interview with Kelly Cobey and Larissa Shamseer of Centre for Journalology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, to coincide with their new paper on the topic in Nature Human Behavior.

Federal Trade Commission and National Institutes of Health Take Action Against Predatory Publishing Practices

The NIH is warning its funded authors against publishing in predatory journals, and the FTC has secured a preliminary injunction against OMICS for alleged predatory publishing practices. Will this mark a turning point in the fight against fraudulent scholarly publishing?

Women in Academia Unite

A look at inequality in research and knowledge systems, and in particular, how gender issues in higher education are exacerbated in the Global South.

Creating a Safety Net — Why Double-Dipping Is the Wrong Term and the Right Approach

An over-reliance on ad dollars in digital media is leading to a crisis. Can we learn some lessons about the value of revenue diversification? Can we accept that diversification isn’t “double-dipping”?

Ask The Chefs: How Can We Increase Diversity In Scholarly Communications?

Why is increasing diversity in scholarly communications seemingly so difficult? What should we be doing differently?

Is There a Business Case for Open Data?

Open data is gaining ground, but is there a revenue stream that would help journals recover the costs of gathering, reviewing and publishing data?

Biological Science Societies Hope to Convince Authors to Stay in the Society Family

Hoping to woo authors away from commercial publishers, a group of biomedical science societies have launched a new alliance to promote the value of publishing in society journals.

Access vs. Accessibility in Scholarship and Science

Ideally, we want science and scholarship to be not only available to the general public, but also comprehensible to them. But the challenges to doing so are real, and may vary both by discipline and by study type.

Metrics: Human-Made, but Humane?

With a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, HumetricsHSS is a kind of meta-workshop in “rethinking humane indicators of excellence in the humanities and social sciences.”

Guest Post — Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?

Elizabeth Gadd takes a look at the contradictions between scholarly culture and copyright culture, and the cognitive dissonance created.

Book Review — “World Without Mind,” by Franklin Foer

Franklin Foer’s new book is a bracing account of the current information economy, the monopolies and motivations at its heart, and the weakening of democratized knowledge.

Guest Post — Does ResearchGate Emerge Unscathed, or Even Strengthened?

Librarian Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe offers thoughts on where the ongoing clash between scholarly publishers and ResearchGate may end up.

Guest Post — “Essential and Existential”: The Work of Equity and Inclusion in Scholarly Publishing

Jocelyn Dawson and Rebecca McLeod gather together helpful advice for recruiting and maintaining a more diverse workforce in publishing.

Building Healthy Online Communities — An Interview with Rachel Happe

Community management has become a key part of social media and online publishing, whether we realize it or not. In this interview, an expert in the fields shares some views of how organizations can benefit from a more singular focus.

ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance

Robert Harington interviews James Milne, Chair of the newly formed Coalition for Responsible Sharing, on action being taken against ResearchGate.