Information tailored to the user requires identity services that are useful and trusted. Will Google+ create a new baseline standard? Whither ORCID? Why can one succeed while one might be doomed? And what might the world look like for scientists when these opportunities are captured?
The Scholarly Kitchen has been around for nearly four years now (3.5, so I’m rounding up). During that time, the initial design proved useful and quite durable. We created a brand with the lovely graphics, and featured blogging, micro-blogging (via Twitter), and robust discussions. But having so many great posts, many published a day after each other, showed us there was room for improvement.
Taxpayer access to US federally funded research results need not involve publishers giving away their product. An alternative mechanism is available, one that is already partially implemented. It is called the research report. Demands for free access to taxpayer funded […]
It has become fashionable to rally against the elitism of journals and their editors. An economic argument for why we still need them both.
The comments on a recent post revealed a litany of rhetoric that doesn’t quite match up with nuanced reality.
An inflammatory essay reveals its author to be neither well-informed or fair.
A review of the literature shows that access conditions are getting better, not worse. So, why do we hear just the opposite?
While all sustainable publishing requires funding, where the funding comes from, why it’s provided, who provides it, when it’s provided, and what they expect for it sheds some light on some key issues.
Making the right choices and the best decisions are crucial to future success. The SSP IN meeting is gearing up to help you meet these challenges. Here’s how.
The abstract is an element of scientific papers we take for granted. Is that a good idea in a networked information environment gravitating to usage-based measures?
We’re now entering our fourth year of publication. Look how we’ve grown!
New publishing initiatives link concepts like “importance” to social metrics like popularity and sharing. Is this logical? Can these metrics be easily gamed?
Why hasn’t scientific publishing been disrupted? The question created one of the year’s most-read posts.
A traffic phenomenon from a post about PLoS ONE may indicate that impact factors are more important to authors than PLoS believes.
The sale of e-books over the Internet will lead to a restructuring of the book business and the evolution of truly global publishers.