The Rise of China’s Scholarly Publishing System Part 1: China’s Journal Ecosystem Is Accelerating

[…] quality alone does not challenge the market power of major international publishers; infrastructure does. Journal clusters enable shared technology, shared workflows, integrated marketing, unified standards, and economies of scale, precisely the structural advantages that global publishers have historically held. What […]

Guest Post — From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing?

[…] server also integrates with multiple third parties, allowing for experimentation within the scholarly communication landscape, free from restricted and publisher-dominated workflows, such as PRC. More recently, arXiv is also becoming an independent non-profit.   The preprint movement reflects Poynder’s first argument; […]

Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance

[…] solutions, workflows, roadmaps, and partnerships they’ve developed in response. Key challenges identified: navigating legal ambiguity managing back content technical and workflow challenges limited resources vendor alignment Allison Belan, Associate Director for Digital Strategy and Publishing Systems at Duke University Press […]

The Hidden Leadership Trap: Overcoming Reverse Delegation in Academia

[…] of dependency, eroding individual autonomy and problem-solving capabilities. Such inefficiencies caused by reverse delegation extend to institutional resources, disrupting publishing workflows and wasting valuable time and energy that could be redirected toward innovation and growth. To solve this, academia needs […]

New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data

[…] nature of usage data,” as one analyst put it. Human-centered design research shows that we typically enter into data analysis workflows either intending to explore patterns within the data or to explain a trend observed in the data. Exploratory workflows […]