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Guest Post — Putting Publications into Context with the DocMaps Framework for Editorial Metadata

The DocMaps Project offers a machine-readable, interoperable and extensible framework for capturing valuable context about the processes used to create research products such as journal articles.

  • By Jessica Polka, Gary McDowell, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Gabe Stein
  • Mar 3, 2021
  • 2 Comments

Driving Responsibly with Identity Management (Part 2: A Case Study)

Emerald Publishing’s identity strategy aims to re-conceive their publishing platform as a digital experience that builds emotive connections with users and seamlessly delivers the answers they need.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Tim Lloyd
  • Mar 2, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post – Scientific Output in the Year of COVID, An Update

An update and a correction for an earlier post on research publication growth in 2020.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Feb 23, 2021
  • 0 Comments

Sci-Hub Citation Study Confuses Causes With Effects

Do Sci-Hub downloads cause more citations, or are high impact papers simply downloaded more often?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Feb 8, 2021
  • 19 Comments

The Cell Press Inclusion and Diversity Statement — An Interview with Deborah Sweet

Deborah Sweet of Cell Press discusses their recently introduced Inclusion and Diversity Statement in this interview with Alice Meadows

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 3, 2021
  • 2 Comments

Changing Journal Impact Factor Rules Creates Unfair Playing Field For Some

Some journals are expected to benefit immensely under Clarivate’s new counting model.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Feb 1, 2021
  • 14 Comments

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.

  • By Daniel S. Katz, Hollydawn Murray
  • Jan 21, 2021
  • 4 Comments

Guest Post — Evaluating Publishers as Partners with Libraries and Higher Education

Rachel Caldwell presents PAPPI, a proposed matrix for determining how well a publisher or vendor aligns with the mission of libraries.

  • By Rachel Caldwell
  • Jan 13, 2021
  • 18 Comments

Towards a Shared Peer-Review Taxonomy: An interview with Joris van Rossum and Lois Jones

Phill Jones interviews Joris van Rossum and Lois Jones about the STM working group on peer review taxonomy. What is it for and how will it work?

  • By Phill Jones
  • Dec 10, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Changes to Journal Impact Factor Announced for 2021

Starting 2021, Journal Impact Factors will be calcuated using online publication dates, not print ones. But phased roll-out may lead to bias for some journals.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 7, 2020
  • 13 Comments

Guest Post – Scientific output in the year of COVID — Please See Update

Christos Petrou looks at the impact on publication volumes, and what that might mean for next year.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Nov 19, 2020
  • 13 Comments

Elsevier Has Deployed an End-user Tracking Tool for Security. Should Users Be Concerned About Their Privacy?

Should library patrons be concerned about how Elsevier uses ThreatMetrix and how it tracks users? It’s complicated.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 13, 2020
  • 7 Comments

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.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Igor Kleshchevich, Bruce Rosenblum
  • Sep 18, 2020
  • 14 Comments

The Effect of a Strong Data Archiving Policy on Journal Submissions (Part II)

We revisit our analysis of how adopting a strict data policy affects journal submissions and find that the effects depend a lot on Impact Factor trends

  • By Tim Vines, Arianne Albert
  • Aug 26, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Revisiting: Cooperstown, Ground Zero for Altmetrics

A look back at 2014’s discussion of measuring the immeasurable.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 20, 2020
  • 0 Comments
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lisalibrarianLisa Janicke Hinchliffe@lisalibrarian·
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Hearing more and more that publishers plan to route papers with the RRS to their OA (APC) journals and, if authors do not wish to be considered for the OA (APC) journals, the manuscripts will be rejected.

Wonder if we'll see a coordinated day of PRs?

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/02/17/rights-retention-strategy/

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I think the majority of Institutional approaches to DORA can be most charitably described as "nudge nudge wink wink" https://twitter.com/pbeldade/status/1368916800424017922

Patrícia Beldade@pbeldade

Ah, that time of the yr when the institution adds the IF (yes, the IF, #DORA) of papers co-authored (regardless of position in author list, nr co-authors, and/or if paper is from one's lab) and decides how much institutional support one gets. <1.5 K€ for 2021. OA fees, anybody?

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