Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe provides a current refresh on the open access (OA) funding landscape, and more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo.
With a lawsuit filed last week Pen America, Penguin Random House, authors, and parents began fighting book bans. Other publishers should help.
Data quality and record keeping are going to grow in importance as a result of AI applications.
Researchers write articles for a primary audience of peers. Open access has expanded the actual distribution. What to do about the growing mismatch?
Open access is public access. With the Nelson OSTP memo as a catalyst for Green-via-Gold, will we still need agency repositories?
The ISMTE DEI Advisory Committee calls on the field of scholarly publishing to set goals and actively work to achieve operational carbon and climate neutrality.
Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.
Avi Staiman discusses the value that ChatGPT can bring to scholarly communication, particularly leveling the playing field for English as an Additional Language authors.
Part three of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.
Haseeb Irfanullah looks at the various activities being taken by publishing organizations to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Why are national PID strategies having a moment, and why should you care? Find out in today’s post by Alice Meadows.
The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.
New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz discusses PLOS’s Open Science Indicators initiatives and shares initial results.
Funder guidance is too vague when it comes to identifiers and metadata. It needs to get specific to be effective.