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The Future State of Our Scholarly Publishing Vendors

When more and more societies move to commercial publisher partnerships, what happens to the vendor landscape? Angela Cochran looks at the current status and future implications.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Dec 21, 2021
  • 6 Comments

Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)

Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 10, 2021
  • 0 Comments

What (Not) to Do When Libraries Won’t Get on Board

Why aren’t libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 4, 2021
  • 14 Comments

Where Does Enhancement End and Citation Begin?

As more publishers semantically enrich documents, Todd Carpenter considers whether links are the same as citations

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 6, 2021
  • 14 Comments

Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI: An Interview with Darrell Gunter

Today we feature an interview with Darrell W. Gunter, the editor of a new book on Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 29, 2021
  • 24 Comments

Guest Post — Fifty Shades of Hybrid Conferences: Why Publishers Should Care (and How You Can Help)

Since in-person events are likely not going away, and neither are virtual ones, conference organizers are left with the most complex of options: hybrid. How can scholarly publishers help?

  • By Violaine Iglesias
  • Sep 28, 2021
  • 7 Comments

The Charleston Conference — Trailblazing the Return to In-Person Events

Interview with Leah Hinds, ExecDir of Charleston Hub, reflecting on preparations for holding the Charleston Conference in-person as well as virtual. @chsconf @lisalibrarian

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Sep 27, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — The Evolving Role of Scientific Editing

In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor’s role changes as much as the reviewer’s role. Editors share some insights about how this works at JOSS.

  • By Daniel S. Katz, Arfon M. Smith
  • Sep 23, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Start-up Stories: Cassyni — The One-Stop-Shop for Online Seminars — Or, How to Get Your Product Built and Launched in 6 Months

Continuing a series looking at start-ups in the scholarly sector, from what they do and how it could be useful, to how they have got started, and tips they would share with other entrepreneurs. This time, an interview with Andrew Preston and Ben Kaube, two of the founders of online seminar platform Cassyni

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Sep 8, 2021
  • 2 Comments

Revisiting: Is There a Business Case for Open Data?

Revisiting Tim Vines’ 2017 post — Open data continues to gain ground, but is there a revenue stream that would help journals recover the costs of gathering, reviewing and publishing data?

  • By Tim Vines
  • Aug 30, 2021
  • 3 Comments

The Curse of More, or, Does Anybody Have Any Time Left to Do Research?

When do new approaches to research communication become an end unto themselves? How much more work can we pile on researchers? Is more information always better than less?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 19, 2021
  • 19 Comments

“Positively Disrupt(ing) Research Culture for the Better”: An Interview with Alexandra Freeman of Octopus

Octopus is a new sharing platform that hopes to disrupt research culture for the better. An interview with founder Dr. Alexandra Freeman.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 18, 2021
  • 17 Comments

Revisiting — The Google Generation Is Alright

How much has changed in a dozen years? Lettie Conrad looks back at Ann Michael’s post from the 2009 SSP Annual Meeting, “Publishing for the Google Generation”.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Ann Michael
  • Jul 26, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Digital Transformation Requires Cultural Evolution

Turns out, digital transformation is actually more human than technical. Learn more in these case studies from Emerald and De Gruyter.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 14, 2021
  • 6 Comments

Happy Birthday to the eBook!

On July 4, 1971 Michael Hart posted the first ebook file on the ARPANET and transformed content distribution.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 13, 2021
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