[…] of the Membership Committee. Sharon is Vice President of Publisher Relations and Content Strategy at Research Solutions, a provider of workflow efficiency solutions for R&D-driven organizations in life sciences, technology and academia. Not unlike a colorful and deeply patterned quilt, […]
[…] ingenuity of papermills that have converted misplaced author incentives into a business model and have exploited weak spots in publisher workflows. They are not suggestive of growing maliciousness across researchers, growing incentives to publish (else perish), or a general weakening […]
[…] targeting law and agriculture resources and newspaper collections. The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) promoted its collection analysis tools and workflow to provide consistency of approach and outcomes across programs. There have been attempts to engage Institutions with specialized missions […]
[…] System for Controlled Digital Lending (IS-CDL), an initiative to identify the problems with software and data citation and improve the workflow to ensure these linkages persist throughout the production process, all developed out of this process. Several more projects are […]
[…] CRL TRAC audit, ISO:16363) Demonstrated mandate and funding A proven track record of preserving academic content Clear, transparent documented agreements, workflows, and processes to ensure long-term access to the repository’s contents Open provision of information about their holdings on their […]
[…] are intellectually interesting to me and that we are contemplating now. AI is all around us, be it in publishing workflows, or in the promise and potential threats of LLMs. How do you see AI affecting your publishing life, and […]
[…] metadata, especially for co-authors, but as I outlined in a prior Scholarly Kitchen post, such costs arise more from antiquated workflow practices than from author reluctance. Publishers have had such durable and valuable brands that until recently, ineffective curation of […]
[…] and emerging PIDs Persistence and sustainability of PIDs Technical applications of PIDs PID value propositions PIDs at scale (in research workflows and infrastructure globally) PID-enabled connections Beyond PIDs—metadata and schema And more… The call for proposals is now open through […]
[…] will need to advance our technological capabilities and gain a deep understanding of our researchers’ and stakeholders’ needs, processes, and workflows. To do the above, we will need to do three things: Hire people with data science/analytics expertise; as well […]
[…] into force. Libraries are seeking to “keep it simple” for their faculty and encourage publishers to continue to improve their workflows to make open access publishing as seamless as possible for authors and also decrease the complexity for libraries administering […]
[…] scholarly publishing industry. Discussions have ranged from basic introductions to innovation showcases demoing how to leverage AI in your publishing workflows to concerns surrounding publication ethics, research integrity, copyright infringement, and job displacement. The Scholarly Kitchen (TSK) itself has featured […]
[…] patients and their advocates. What is needed is distillation and synthesis into formats that will be useful and situated within workflows that will be convenient, incorporating the medical literature and addressing misinformation, through whatever combination of expert human creation, curation, […]
[…] all this disruption impact the value of scholarly publishing, and what values do we want to embed as our traditional workflows and infrastructure change to meet these evolving needs. Could you talk a bit about the Annual Meeting Program Committee […]
[…] the university press sector, a number of OA programs for books have been developed, in part to learn more about workflow requirements and the impact on readership. These programs, for example TOME (which refers to itself as a movement) and […]
[…] models can be as diverse as the presses themselves. Common concerns center around the lack of necessary technical infrastructure, legacy workflows, and author concerns over the perceived quality of OA books. But by far the most frequent concern expressed is […]