Let’s Talk About the Volunteers in Scholarly Publishing
Haseeb Irfanullah takes a look at how volunteerism shapes scholarly communication.
Guest Post — The Votes Are In! Announcing This Year’s Peer Review Week Theme
The Co-Chairs of this year’s Peer Review Week Steering Group reveal the theme of Peer Review Week 2021.
Revisiting: How to Be A Good Peer Reviewer
Revisiting Jasmine Wallace’s 2019 primer on best practices for peer reviewers.
Preprints Are Not Going to Replace Journals
At a recent meeting, a debate was held on the motion: Preprints are going to replace journals. I was asked to oppose the motion and this post is based on my arguments.
Guest Post — Open and Faster Scholarly Communication in a Post-COVID World
Liz Bal from Jisc discusses the scholarly publishing lessons learned from COVID-19, and how they can be applied to make research communication more efficient and effective.
What’s Wrong with Paying for Peer Review?
Lots of things are wrong with paying for peer review, according to Tim Vines and Alison Mudditt in the recent R2R conference debate
Revisiting: Turning a Critical Eye on Reference Lists
In today’s post, Angela Cochran revisits her call to provide more editorial scrutiny to journal article references. Several new automated tools now available will help editors determine whether references are appropriate for including in scholarly works.
Guest Post — The 10,000-watt Bulb: How Preprints Shine a Light on Misconduct
Michele Avissar-Whiting of Research Square discusses the value of preprints for uncovering unethical and fraudulent research behaviors early in the publication process.
Trust in Science: Views from Three Experts
Today’s guest post is a recap of the recent SSP webinar, Ask the Experts: Trust in Science, with Tracey Brown (Sense About Science), Richard Sever (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press), and Eefke Smith (STM) by the moderator, Anita de Waard (Elsevier).
How One Society Is Supporting Peer Review Excellence in their Community: An Interview with Laura Feetham of IOP Publishing
In today’s post, Alice Meadows talks to Laura Feetham of IOP Publishing about their work to improve peer review quality in the physical sciences through their ongoing peer review excellence program.
Guest Post – Starting a Novel Software Journal within the Existing Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem: Technical and Social Lessons
The Journal of Open Source Software was designed from scratch using the principles of open source and software design practices. This has both advantages and disadvantages, particularly with respect to elements of the traditional scholarly publishing ecosystem.
Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability
Journalists are increasingly flagging unsupported claims and blatant falsehoods–it’s time for preprint platforms to do the same.
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?
The Curse of Reviewer 89: An Interview with Filestage’s Niklas Dorn
A look at Thieme’s “Select Crowd Review” approach to peer review.
There is No Truth, There is Only Workflow
The crisis of information integrity is real. Integrity of workflow — analyses of process, investment in process, transparency of process — is the intervention