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

[…] screen readers. Our commitment to accessibility included working to become the first university press with a Benetech Global Certified Accessible workflow. Reinforcing research infrastructure For Provosts and Academic Deans, supporting the infrastructure of research is a core responsibility, and an […]

Keeping Publishing Infrastructure Independent

[…] Silverchair Many in our community are deeply familiar with content platforms that are utilized by scholarly publishers to provide publishing workflows leading up to and including access to their publications. It could be that one day publishers will no longer […]

The End of Journal Impact Factor Purgatory (and Numbers to the Thousandths)

[…] fields using citation activity as the primary indicator of impact. Details of our evaluation process can be found here: https://clarivate.com/products/scientific-and-academic-research/research-discovery-and- workflow-solutions/web-of-science/core-collection/editorial-selection-process/editorial-selection-process/ Q: The release states that over 9,000 journals will get Impact Factors. Can you provide a breakdown like how […]

Ask the Fellows: SSP 2022 Annual Meeting

[…] participating in sessions focused on the open access agreements and the potential use of the OA Switchboard to improve the workflow efficiency. I have realized the importance of communication and collaboration among stakeholders in scholarly publishing to build a more […]

The State of the Version of Record

[…] are why we see an increasing turn to payment-to-publish rather than payment-to-read revenue models as well as publishers pivoting to workflow support and hosting preprints, data, etc. directly. Publishers are innovating in order to attempt to shore up their centrality. […]

The Other Diversity in Scholarly Publishing

[…] feedback from other registered users on a regular basis. If we explore other aspects of scholarly publishing — publication format, workflow, data sharing mechanisms, copyright, or licensing — we will find diverse options in practice. We may explain such diversity […]