Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting Part 1

[…] for example, by encouraging diversity in journals; incorporating inclusive reporting standards; equity and open science; improving representation while promoting inclusive peer review and editorial boards. The American Psychological Association recently shared our new EDI Toolkit for Journal Editors with our community […]

Guest Post — Pandemic Disruptor: Canadian Perspectives on how COVID-19 is Changing Open Access (Part 1)

[…] sur le libre accès aux publications savantes (available in French only). This policy commits all university authors to deposit their peerreviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings in the university’s institutional repository as soon as they are published. Open access […]

Where Does Enhancement End and Citation Begin?

[…] like about Elsevier… Has anyone noticed how they’ve been adding embedded hyperlinks to their ‘Topic Pages’ within HTML pages of peerreviewed articles? The authors surely didn’t put them in. Do paying subscribers get to say “no” to this? pic.twitter.com/nnNSOS9BdQ — […]

Pubget: Time-saver or Content Aggregator?

[…] no one had to do any scanning.  I would not be surprised by the appearance of similar services which aggregate peerreviewed manuscripts deposited into PubMed Central as part of the NIH Public Access mandate, or a commercial service which scrapes […]

Guest Post — Space and Grace in Open Access Publishing

[…] I have worked in libraries for over a decade and, while there are incredible open options for both trade and peerreviewed scholarly publications, they are not comprehensive and do not represent sufficient space for all the needed perspectives in librarianship. […]

Guest Post — Responsible Reporting of Suicide During COVID-19: The Role of Academic Publishing

[…] news reporting on research and it is essential that these texts are consistent with media recommendations. We recommend that authors, peerreviewers, university press offices, and journal editors consider the following points when publishing information about suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic […]