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Archives: Open Science

Telling the Story of How Open Access Benefits Society: A Vision for the Future

Traditional metrics do not allow us to fully express how OA publishing benefits society; here’s a vision for the future of storytelling with usage data in scholarly communications.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 6, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask the Chefs: Making Sense of Changing US Policies

We asked the Chefs to weigh in on the policy chaos emerging from Washington over the last ten days.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah, Alice Meadows
  • Jan 30, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post: Reflections from The Munin Conference Part Three – Measuring Impact

This is the third and final article in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at The Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today’s focus is measuring impact.

  • By Mark Huskisson
  • Jan 23, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post: Reflections from The Munin Conference Part Two – Open Science

This is the second article of three in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at The Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today’s focus is Open Science.

  • By Mark Huskisson
  • Jan 22, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post:  Reflections from The Munin Conference Part One – Bibliodiversity

This is the first article of three in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at the Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today’s focus is bibliodiversity.

  • By Mark Huskisson
  • Jan 21, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Does Altering A Dataset Merit Retraction?

Self-archiving on personal sites is perfectly permitted under many journal data policies. But what happens when an author alters the underlying data?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 17, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Stephanie Dawson, ScienceOpen

For today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Stephanie Dawson, CEO of ScienceOpen, about her thoughts on and experience of research infrastructure, as the leader of an organization working in this space.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Genesis and Purpose of the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration: An Interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh

What is the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration, and how did it come about? An interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 13, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Access to Science & Scholarship: An Interview with Amy Brand of MIT Press

On September 20, 2024, MIT Press hosted a workshop, Access to Science & Scholarship:  An Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy. I interviewed Amy Brand to discuss the goals and outcomes of the workshop.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 5, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Disruption As an End in Itself: eLife’s Suspension and DORA’s Response

DORA’s reaction to Clarivate’s decision to no longer fully index eLife (and, therefore, not to give it a Journal Impact Factor) seems inconsistent with both its and eLife’s public positions, and based on the mistaken belief that “disruption” is an absolute good in itself.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 27, 2024
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Difficulties of Reproducing a Scientific Experiment

Reproducing an experiment is harder than you might think.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 15, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post – Driving Change in Ukrainian Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with Ganna Kharlamova

An interview with Ganna Kharlamova, who is working to changing the way scholarly communications and publishing are conducted in Ukraine.

  • By Frances Pinter, Ganna Kharlamova
  • Nov 13, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

It’s a New World? Revisiting What Universities — and Researchers, Libraries, and Publishers — Owe Democracy

In light of recent events, we revisit Karin Wulf’s 2022 post which declared that universities need democracy, and vice versa, and discussed an important book which shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do as both are imperiled.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Nov 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

The Top Ten Challenges, Needs, and Goals of Publishers – and How AI Can Help in Digital Transformation and the Open Science Movement

As artificial intelligence begins to play an ever-bigger role in the scholarly publishing landscape, how might it help solve some of the biggest challenges facing publishers?

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 5, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Scholarly Publishing: The Elephant (And Other Wildlife) In The Room

Journal-based scholarly communication needs a structural change

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 24, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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