Guest Post — BioASQ for the Win: Inside the Healthiest Competition You’ve Never Heard Of
A look at BioASQ — an annual competition to develop AI systems to help drive medical progress.
Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest
Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest: analysis by Roger Schonfeld
Article Sharing Framework: Facilitating Scholarly Sharing Through Metadata
The STM Association released an Article Sharing Framework to facilitate use of scholarly collaboration networks in compliance with new EU Copyright Directive.
Guest Post – Starting a Novel Software Journal within the Existing Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem: Technical and Social Lessons
The Journal of Open Source Software was designed from scratch using the principles of open source and software design practices. This has both advantages and disadvantages, particularly with respect to elements of the traditional scholarly publishing ecosystem.
Guest Post — Building the Last Mile: A Plan for Bringing the Expanding Universe of Digital Primary Sources into Classrooms
Getting digitized primary source materials into the classroom requires an open dialogue among researchers, teachers, and archivists. A workshop from historians of business shows how.
Guest Post — Citing Software in Scholarly Publishing to Improve Reproducibility, Reuse, and Credit
Daniel Katz and Hollydawn Murray present the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s guidelines for citing the software used in research publications.
Guest Post — What’s Wrong with Preprint Citations?
Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Igor Kleshchevich, and Bruce Rosenblum look at the complexities of adding preprints to the citation record and suggest best practices going forward.
“Little Deals” Everywhere: Is Demand-driven Collection Development Catching Fire?
As the big deal falls, we are witnessing a shift in academic library purchasing power closer to the point of need.
Ask The Chefs: Do’s And Don’ts Of Data
Is the value of data in decision making all hype? How can we leverage data to server our mission, customers, and our own operational effectiveness?
The UK National PID Consortium: A Pathway to Increased Adoption
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are an essential part of the open research infrastructure, but need widespread adoption to be effective. Learn about Jisc’s plans to increase adoption through a national PID consortium in this post by Alice Meadows.
Guest Post — Books for the 2020s: The Role of Book Content in the STM Researcher Ecosystem
What is the role of book content in the Science, Technical and Medical (STM) researcher ecosystem?
Guest Post — Pandemic Reveals Broader Audiences for Science and Carves Out New All-digital Publishing Opportunities
Sabine Louët and Karla Fallon discuss how to realize the opportunities for better communicating research results to a broader audience.
Guest Post – Seamless Remote Access During a Global Pandemic: An Indispensable Necessity
Ralph Youngen from the American Chemical Society discusses their efforts to provide remote access to researchers during the current pandemic and how new technologies and standards like RA21 and SeamlessAccess are helpful.
The Kitchen at the APE: Five Chefs Share Takeaways from the 2020 Academic Publishing in Europe Conference
Here are some takeaways from last week’s Academic Publishing in Europe meeting, from Chefs who were there (either physically or virtually).
Back to Basics: When in Doubt, Get Fundamental
Flashy new technologies come and go, but getting back to basics is a reminder that the “killer app” is high-quality content, composed in accordance with established standards for discoverability and accessibility.