PLOS’s Next Big Thing
In this post, Alice Meadows shares some thoughts about PLOS’s recently announced R&D project to help overcome the lack of recognition for Open Science contributions, and the lack of affordability for researchers.
Engaging with Your Community to Effect Change: An Irish Case Study
In today’s post Alice Meadows shares a case study of community engagement in Ireland as part of the country’s plans to develop a national persistent identifier (PID) strategy
Guest Post: Time to Rethink Usage Analytics
Users (human and machine) are accessing scholarly content in new ways, challenging traditional usage analytics models. In this guest post, Tim Lloyd outlines the challenges ahead in quantifying usage.
Guest Post — Equitable Scholarly Communication: Realistic or Idealistic?
Daniel Dollar offers an update on the work being done by Research4Life and a call for action.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Hylke Koers of STM Solutions
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions about his organization and his career in scholarly infrastructure
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Brian Cody of Scholastica
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Alice Meadows talks to Brian Cody, CEO of Scholastica, a provider of software solutions for scholarly organizations — of all types — that publish journals.
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.
Guest Post: Improving Methods Reporting in the Life Sciences
What can we do to encourage and improve methods reporting in scientific articles? A new report summarizes recommendations for editors and publishers alike.
A Successful Start to a New Festival of Identifiers: PIDfest 2024
In this post by Todd Carpenter, Phill Jones, and Alice Meadows, you can read all about PIDfest, which brought together nearly 400 persistent identifier users and providers from around the world (in person in Prague, and virtually).
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Wendy Queen of Project MUSE
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Wendy Queen, Director, Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Richard Jefferson of The Lens
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Richard Jefferson, founder of The Lens, which enables discovery and analysis for scholarly works, patents, and patent sequences.
The Case for Probabilistic Metadata
Moving from a binary right/wrong view of metadata to a probabilistic framework brings many benefits
Web-scale Institutional Search: How are Vendors Responding to ODI Recommendations?
Providers of library discovery services reflect on the impact and value of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Nici Pfeiffer of the Center for Open Science
Today’s Kitchen Essentials interview is with Nici Pfeiffer, Chief Product Officer for the Center for Open Science (COS), including the popular and highly-used Open Science Framework (OSF).
Guest Post: The STM Integrity Hub — Connecting the Dots in a Dynamic Landscape
An update on progress from the STM Research Integrity Hub.