Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of PKP
In our next Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
What’s Next for Open Science — Making the Case for Open Methods
Transparency around research methodologies is essential for driving public trust and accurate, reproducible research results.
Knowledge Unlatched Announces Transformation: An Interview with Sven Fund
Knowledge Unlatched has announced its “transformation into a central open access platform.” What does that mean, exactly? An interview with Managing Director Sven Fund.
Guest Post — Common Threads: Doing Things Differently So We Can Do Different Things
As the amount of scholarship continues to grow, Common Threads asks what new insights and utility can be found in reorganization of content for new audiences.
Guest Post — Putting Publications into Context with the DocMaps Framework for Editorial Metadata
The DocMaps Project offers a machine-readable, interoperable and extensible framework for capturing valuable context about the processes used to create research products such as journal articles.
Digital Transformation Requires Cultural Evolution
Turns out, digital transformation is actually more human than technical. Learn more in these case studies from Emerald and De Gruyter.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Maria Gould of ROR
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Alice Meadows interviewed Director Maria Gould for today’s Kitchen Essentials post.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn of DataCite
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn, respectively Executive Director and Director of Community Engagement for DataCite.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico, the community-supported preservation archive.
"The Making of a Scholarly Journal" Video — Perhaps Inducing More Nostalgia Than Intended
A nice video documenting how a humanities journal is made inadvertently hits on some other themes, almost by exclusion.
The Shrinking Orphan Works Problem
The orphan works problem is finite. Current practices will chip away at the number of orphans. It is unlikely that more orphans will be created in the future because it is so easy for publishers now to hold onto rights and keep books available in some form.
Springer Establishes a Beachhead on the Desktop with Acquisition of Papers
Springer’s acquisition of Papers shifts the publisher into the workflow, and provides a unique opportunity to become a unifying resource.
What Does a Scientist Want?
Although many people claim to know what scientists want, the author’s own ongoing survey has come up with results that are at odds with most conventional wisdom. This post summarizes those findings and identifies a near-universal view held by many scientists.
Copyright in a Digital Era: The Rise and Rise of CCC
What is the role of the Copyright Clearance Center in a digital age?
From USGS Library to ProQuest: an Interview with Richard Huffine on the US Public Access Program
Richard Huffine, former Director of Libraries for the US Geological Survey (USGS) and current Senior Director, U.S. Federal Government Market, at ProQuest speaks about public access policies.