Guest Post — Video is here. Time to embrace it.

[…] reason to believe that “watching avoidance” would be any different. Step #4. Treat video seriously Make sure your videos are peerreviewed. Give them a proper home online. Embed them alongside the rest of the research you publish: articles, books, proceedings, […]

Changing Jobs During a Pandemic

[…] Zoom fatigue. Onboarding may need to include more short videos of tasks, some independent reading, or one-on-one phone calls with peers doing similar jobs. In both our organizations, team members and peers have gone out of their way to acknowledge […]

Guest Post — Bringing Diverse Perspectives into Scholarly Marketing and Communications: Calls to Action towards Global Outreach for Global Change Part 1 

[…] ensure that everyone who needs to can access our publications? As publishers, we must invest in openness and accessibility to peerreviewed knowledge. We must also ensure that anti-racism guides our policies, practices, and publications. As stated in the recent Statement […]

Building a Sustainable Research Infrastructure

[…] cross-sector dialogue and harmonization around requirements such as developing common standards (e.g., around the descriptors we use for things like peer review, research grants, and research outputs) to enable interoperability across systems. When we put the same question to our attendees, […]

Study: Recommender Systems May Increase Citations

[…] have been greatly overstated. It is a methodologically strong paper, but weak on statistical reporting. And while published in a peer reviewed journal, readers should understand that these vendor-promoted studies may contain reporting bias and lack appropriate context. High Angle View […]

Guest Post — Library Publishers Convene in Vancouver to Discuss Open Platforms and Open Educational Resources

[…] The series, which receives generous support from the MIT Libraries, has three published titles and another currently available for open peer review. Coalition Publi.ca (James MacGregor: Public Knowledge Project; Davin Baragiotta, Érudit): This cross-Canada collaboration supports social sciences and humanities journals […]

Guest Post: Plan S and Humanities Publishing

[…] with all our stakeholders is just as indispensable as making transparency one of our key business principles: transparency of our peer review processes, transparency of our policies to avoid double-dipping and transparency of the value we add to a researcher’s work, […]