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Why PID Strategies Are Having A Moment — And Why You Should Care

Why are national PID strategies having a moment, and why should you care? Find out in today’s post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 25, 2023
  • 6 Comments

The Dea(r)th of Social Media? Assessing “Twexit”

The brave new world post-Twitter, or post-the Old Twitter, or has anything really changed? Chefs ponder the new social media.

  • By Karin Wulf, Angela Cochran, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, David Crotty
  • Jan 19, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Measuring Metadata Impacts: Books Discoverability in Google Scholar

Although Google Scholar claims to not use DOI metadata in its search index, a recent study finds that books with DOIs are generally more discoverable than those without DOIs.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Michelle Urberg
  • Jan 17, 2023
  • 9 Comments

Web-scale Library Search: Where Are We Today?

Eleven years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are ODI conformance statements helping to drive transparency and cross-sector improvements to web-scale library discovery services?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 10, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post – Wikipedia’s Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers

Rachel Helps, the Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU libraries discusses the intersection of scholarly journals and Wikipedia.

  • By Rachel Helps
  • Nov 1, 2022
  • 15 Comments

Guest Post — Three Challenges (and Solutions) to Expand Digital Humanities

Chris Houghton discusses how digital archives and new tools are changing approaches for Digital Humanities researchers.

  • By Chris Houghton
  • Sep 26, 2022
  • 0 Comments

An Action Plan for Accessible Images: Practical Solutions for Publishers, Platforms, and Providers

Accessible images deliver an inclusive reading experience and unlock the numerous benefits of data-rich accessible images. This post summarizes a 2022 SSP panel offering practical solutions for ensuring scholarly image collections and in-line graphics are fully accessible to all readers.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Caroline Desrosiers, Hannah F. Heckner, Michelle Urberg
  • Aug 1, 2022
  • 1 Comment

The End of Journal Impact Factor Purgatory (and Numbers to the Thousandths)

Clarivate Analytics announced today that all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection will get Impact Factors raising questions about the Emerging Sources Citation Index. Further, Clarivate will only report Impact Factors to the first decimal devaluing journal rank in subject categories.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Jul 26, 2022
  • 26 Comments

Revisiting — Building Pipes and Fixing Leaks: Demystifying and Decoding Scholarly Information Discovery & Interchange

A look back at Julie Zhu’s 2019 post that discusses publisher strategies and industry standards for tending to the “plumbing” of content discovery and access.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Julie Zhu
  • Jul 14, 2022
  • 3 Comments

Going Legit Part 2: The Continuing Path from Piracy to Partnership

An SSP Meeting Session showing the results from publisher partnerships with Researchgate suggest the company is shifting from a source of potential infringement to a distribution channel that is being folded into more and more organizations.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 27, 2022
  • 6 Comments

Let the Metadata Wars Begin

Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 22, 2022
  • 13 Comments

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

Revisiting: When is a Publisher not a Publisher? Cobbling Together the Pieces to Build a Workflow Business

Revisiting a 2017 post looking at how, due to the slowing growth of content licensing, sophisticated content providers are building businesses supporting researcher workflow and university business processes.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jun 9, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Event Streaming Start-Ups: A Strategic Overview and Taxonomy

The value of streaming video as a genre of scholarly communication is just being established. Today, Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger profile the leading start-ups in this space.

  • By Danielle Cooper, Dylan Ruediger
  • Apr 20, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post: A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?

Mark Hahnel looks at the progress that’s been made toward open research data — what’s been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?

  • By Mark Hahnel
  • Mar 30, 2022
  • 9 Comments
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