Get The Research: Impactstory Announces a New Science-Finding Tool for the General Public
An interview with Impactstory’s Jason Priem about their new tool, Get The Research.
Open Access, Academic Freedom, and the Spectrum of Coercive Power
Who has the most power to take choice away from authors?
Guest Post: Help TRANSPOSE Bring Journal Policies into the Open
TRANSPOSE is a new crowdsourced resource that seeks to reduce the uncertainty of journal policies by providing a clear, structured summary in one place.
Are Mirror Journals a Better Path to the Open Access Flip?
Mixing subscription content and open access content in hybrid journals has done little to accelerate the flip from subscription to OA. Angela Cochran explores the creation of mirror journals to comply with new OA mandates and supply a more sustainable model for moving toward OA.
Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research?
As we think about open research and equity, we introduce a new type of post: “Ask the Community”, where we invite others to answer the same question put to the Chefs, with a deliberate focus on some of the people or regions of the world that often are disadvantaged in the global research landscape.
Open Access: A Look Back
A look back at ten years of open access posts and ten years of progress on The Scholarly Kitchen.
From Paywall to Datawall
Now, of course copyright owners of “free” resources have the right to set the terms of access. They can put up a datawall that demands the exchange of personal information (and thus enables data tracking, reporting, and maybe even aggregation with other datasets) for the otherwise free article. I wonder how far we will see this extend.
Societies, Mission and Publishing: Why One Size Does Not Fit All
Robert Harington argues that academic societies need to balance mission and business more effectively. There is nothing wrong with developing a mixed publishing economy that best suits a range of communities and types of business.
Guest Post: Why a Society Publisher is Moving Toward Read and Publish Models
Emma Wilson from the Royal Society of Chemistry discusses their Read and Publish strategies for a transition to open access.
Plan T: Scrap APCs and Fund Open Access with Submission Fees
Plan S proposes to take a hammer to how we fund peer review and publication. The focus is currently on APCs, but submission fees are overall cheaper for authors, particularly at highly selective journals, and thus warrant serious consideration.
Guest Post: Think Sci-Hub is Just Downloading PDFs? Think Again
They’re phishing, hacking, and password-cracking to steal personal and research data from the world’s academic institutions. Andrew Pitts takes a hard look at Sci-Hub as, “Corrupt cybercriminals, not Robin Hood.”
How Traditional Publishing Works
Thus the defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.
Read and Publish: Is It Good for the Academy?
Will Read and Publish models transform the scholarly journal publishing business? And if they do, will it be good for the academy?
Mapping Open Science Tools
A fresh mapping of open-science tools for the researcher workflow reveals numerous gaps and opportunities for software solutions in the name of scientific progress.
A New Approach to Article Sharing: Interview with Maria Ritola of Iris.ai
Learn about a new approach to article sharing in this interview with Maria Ritolo, co-founder of Iris.ai, developer of R4R — a tool that enables researchers to more easily share their research on request.