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Guest Post — Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.

  • By Hong Zhou, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Jan 31, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Steven Inchcoombe

Robert Harington talks to Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 30, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — “We are ready to move forward”: A Professional Society’s Route to Open Access

The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.

  • By Steven Arndt
  • Jan 24, 2023
  • 3 Comments

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Mandy Hill

Robert Harington talks to Mandy Hill, Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press in this new series of perspectives from some of publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 23, 2023
  • 3 Comments

GitHub is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing

GitHub and Microsoft are being sued for using open source software without creator attribution in alleged violation of open licensing requirements. What implications does this have for the scholarly literature and Creative Commons licenses?

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Jan 5, 2023
  • 14 Comments

Return of the Big Deal: Developments in Texas and India

New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 4, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Guest Post – How Do We Measure Success for Open Science?

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz discusses PLOS’s Open Science Indicators initiatives and shares initial results.

  • By Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
  • Dec 13, 2022
  • 4 Comments

Some Observations from Charleston (Open Access Edition):

Thoughts on open access (OA) from the perspectives of both the publisher and library communities at the Charleston Meeting.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Dec 8, 2022
  • 1 Comment

The Predator Effect – Fraud in the Scholarly Publishing Industry: An Interview with Simon Linacre

An interview by @lisalibrarian with Simon Linacre, author of “The Predator Effect”

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 28, 2022
  • 13 Comments

Guest Post — Charleston 2022 — Finding Paths to Open Access Book Publishing

Erich van Rijn looks at the University of California’s Luminos open access books program and reviews lessons learned and what is needed for such programs to succeed.

  • By Erich van Rijn
  • Nov 17, 2022
  • 11 Comments

We All Know What We Mean, Can We Just Put It In The Policy?

Funder guidance is too vague when it comes to identifiers and metadata. It needs to get specific to be effective.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 16, 2022
  • 13 Comments

Innovation at eLife: An Interview with Damian Pattinson

eLife’s recent announcement that it will reinvent itself as a “service that reviews preprints” has generated much discussion over recent weeks. But what are the primary drivers and goals, and what might we all learn from this bold experiment?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Nov 15, 2022
  • 2 Comments

A Failure to Communicate: Indicators of Open Access in the User Interface

Though open access indicators within a given publishing platform are relatively consistent, significant inconsistency across platforms likely creates user confusion.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Kalyn Nowlan
  • Nov 14, 2022
  • 15 Comments

Does Scholarly Publishing Have an Innovation Problem?

Is there an entrenched stasis in scholarly communication in which the core elements of the system have not been much moved by the revolutions happening around us?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Nov 2, 2022
  • 10 Comments

Guest Post – Wikipedia’s Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers

Rachel Helps, the Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU libraries discusses the intersection of scholarly journals and Wikipedia.

  • By Rachel Helps
  • Nov 1, 2022
  • 15 Comments
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