Guest Post — The Monograph and the Mission: University of Michigan Pledges $1.2 Million to Fund Open Access Book Publishing

[…] used by Geoffrey Crossick in his foundational 2015 report on monograph publishing. By pairing authors with expert interlocutors (acquisitions editors, peer reviewers, series editors, faculty mentors from our Executive Committee, and expert production editors), the university press provides a rare space […]

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 […]