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The Chicken or Egg Problem — Should Publishers Mandate Graphical Abstracts or Let Authors Lead the Way?

If we want to broaden the audience base for research outputs, then authors need to explore more visual formats for readers to consume. The graphical abstract is one such format.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Oct 10, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Engaging with Your Community to Effect Change: An Irish Case Study

In today’s post Alice Meadows shares a case study of community engagement in Ireland as part of the country’s plans to develop a national persistent identifier (PID) strategy

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Oct 3, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post: Time to Rethink Usage Analytics

Users (human and machine) are accessing scholarly content in new ways, challenging traditional usage analytics models. In this guest post, Tim Lloyd outlines the challenges ahead in quantifying usage.

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • Oct 2, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Innovation and Technology in Peer Review: Some User Perspectives

In today’s Peer Review Week post we hear perspectives on innovation and technology in peer review from a diverse group of users from different countries and disciplines.

  • By Alice Meadows, Leo Anthony Celi, Kaushik Madapati, Grace Pold, Nora Slonimsky, Ivone Cabral, Joshua Piker, Sophie Reisz, Heidi Koch-Bubel, Michael Roy, Michael Willis
  • Sep 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: AI’s Role in the Future of Peer Review

Peer review needs reform. AI systems can act as assistants, providing valuable feedback for both reviewers and editors.

  • By Zeger Karssen
  • Sep 25, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Peer Review Week 2024: Ask the Chefs

Leading into Peer Review Week 2024, we ask the Chefs: What is, or would be, the most valuable innovation in peer review for your community?

  • By Alice Meadows, Avi Staiman, Hong Zhou, Karin Wulf, Tim Vines, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Sep 20, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats: A Comprehensive SWOT Analysis of AI and Human Expertise in Peer Review

AI-generated content has been discovered in prominent journals. Should peer reviewers be expected to find AI text in manuscripts? Where in the publication workflow should these checks be done?

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Sep 12, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Hylke Koers of STM Solutions

In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions about his organization and his career in scholarly infrastructure

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 9, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Brian Cody of Scholastica

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Alice Meadows talks to Brian Cody, CEO of Scholastica, a provider of software solutions for scholarly organizations — of all types — that publish journals.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Aug 21, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Digital Archiving: Andy Warhol’s Lost Amiga Art Found

The floppy discs behind a long lost digital piece of art are recovered.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 16, 2024
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research

Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

AI-Enabled Transformation of Information Objects Into Learning Objects

A look at how AI tools support transforming information access into information comprehension.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jul 30, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Forget about AI, Here Comes PowerPoint

Did you know that PowerPoint is the only computing application you need to do, well, anything?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 26, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

A Look Under the Hood of Scopus AI: An Interview with Maxim Khan

To learn about how Scopus AI works under the hood, we interview Elsevier Sr. VP of Analytics Products and Data Platform, Maxim Khan.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 25, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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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