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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 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

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

Guest Post — Evaluating China’s Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan: A New Era of Research Impact and Standards?

Here we examine the second phase of China’s Journal Excellence Action Plan, its implications, its funding framework, and what it means for Chinese scientific journals, researchers, and the broader international academic publishing community.

  • By Ning Zhang, Gareth Dyke
  • Dec 18, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Green Open Access – Free for Authors But at a Cost for Readers

Pursuit of Green open access rather than Gold not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 12, 2024
  • 72 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

How the SDGs Are Shaping the Research Agenda, and What Publishers Need to Know and Do

Insights from a recent study looking at how the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are influencing research, including recommendations for publishers’ next steps.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • 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

Paywalls are Not the Only Barriers to Access: Accessibility is Critical to Equitable Access

Digital accessibility to the scholarly communications process is core to providing equitable access to the literature.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Wiley Leans into AI. The Community Should Lean with Them.

An interview with Wiley SVP Josh Jarrett about their work improving publishing processes with AI and licensing content for AI applications.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 31, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Sustainability: When Being Small Is Big Enough To Create A Legacy

How can smaller publishers support the Sustainable Development Goals?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 14, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Revisiting: Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Revisiting Rick Anderson’s 2022 post which asks, are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 3, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Revisiting — What Does “Federally Funded” Actually Mean?

With a new public access memo and federal agency policies due, Angela Cochran revisits her 2013 post exploring what Federally Funded means.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Aug 12, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk

Do publishers really understand what tools researchers are using and how they are using them? Can we do more to create better policies based on real use cases and not hypothetical conjecture about what AI might do in the future?

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Jul 22, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

A Successful Start to a New Festival of Identifiers: PIDfest 2024

In this post by Todd Carpenter, Phill Jones, and Alice Meadows, you can read all about PIDfest, which brought together nearly 400 persistent identifier users and providers from around the world (in person in Prague, and virtually).

  • By Alice Meadows, Phill Jones, Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 18, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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