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China Strives to Catch Up on STM Publishing: An Interview with Dr. Zong-Ming Cheng and Dr. Xiaofeng Wang

China is making great official strides in developing a system of scholarly communications. Tao Tao interviews two experts for their opinions on how international collaborations and internal developments are happening.

Digital Bangladesh: How Research Data Defines Development

Bangladesh continues to make progress toward its vision of growth with a digital agenda, but good data and collaboration with researchers is important to ensure that the process is effective.

Why Scholarly Societies Are Vitally Important to the Academic Ecosystem

Robert Harington suggests that despite the critical role of scholarly societies in publishing and academia, the sad reality is it is the big corporate publishers who win.

Repairing an Institutional Reputation Tarnished by Fraudulent Publishing

Given the reality of fraudulent publishers and their deceptive practices, will institutions consider more strongly guiding author choice of publishing venue in order to protect institutional reputation?

A Historical Look At Vaccine Skepticism

The Washington Post looks at the long history of vaccine skepticism.

Guest Post — Pinot Noir, Australia, and Peer Review

On the eve of a peer review seminar in Australia, Alex Christopher interviews CSIRO’s Andrew Stammer and Publons’ Tiago Barros on the current state of peer review.

Where is the Publication Puck Going? Making Research Available “Upstream” of Publication

Could scholarly publishers’ skills and capacity be re-positioned to serve researchers at earlier stages in the research process, “upstream” of publication? Charlie Rapple shares findings from a survey of the communications needs of almost 10,000 researchers.

They Know We Know They Know: Does Sci-Hub Affect Library Subscriptions?

So does Sci-Hub lead libraries to cancel journals, or doesn’t it? Maybe the answer isn’t a simple yes or no.

Stanford University Press and the Wrong Lesson of the Humanities

What if, instead of enacting a caricature of Silicon Valley, Stanford recognized the future and threw its arms around Stanford University Press? That would be the smart move.

Cutting Through the Headline Hype on Medical Studies

Two videos offer tips on separating the actual research done in medical studies from the often over-hyped media coverage.

Cabell’s Predatory Journal Blacklist: An Updated Review

Two years after its initial entry into the marketplace, Cabell’s Blacklist has matured into a carefully crafted and highly useful directory of predatory and deceptive journals.

Scholarly Kitchen Webinar: The Future of Independent and Society Publishing

The scholarly communications marketplace has become increasingly difficult for the smaller independent and the society publisher. Here we preview our upcoming webinar looking at the future for these publishers.

Guest Post — One Society’s Journey towards Equity

Randy Townsend from the American Geophysical Union discusses the strides that organization has made toward equity and diversity.

Guest Post — Low Cost Textbook Alternatives: Worth the Effort?

When a University of Utah professor grew frustrated with the slim textbook offerings available to students of Arabic, she turned to the library for help. The result was the collaborative creation of a new and radically cheaper text — that got much higher ratings from students than the old one had. How did we do it?

Guest Post — What Does Bangladesh Tell Us About Research Communication?

How three transformations in scholarly publishing over recent years could help Bangladesh move out of the UN’s List of Least Developed Countries by 2024. Guest post by Haseeb Md. Irfanullah.

SSP Announces Release of Individual Results for the Insights Benchmarking Compensation & Benefits Study

SSP Virtual 5K Run, Walk, and Roll Returns for Fourth-Year