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The Publishing Community Should More Actively Oppose Book Bans

With a lawsuit filed last week Pen America, Penguin Random House, authors, and parents began fighting book bans. Other publishers should help.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 25, 2023
  • 8 Comments

What Have You Done for DEIA Lately?

Are we still doing the work it takes to make positive and impactful change? Are we continuing the work to break down systems, policies, and unwritten industry rules that are no longer fit for purpose?

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • Feb 24, 2023
  • 9 Comments

Investing in Libraries is the Right Thing for Administrators To Do, Even if There Are Fewer Resources Overall

Library budgets shrank for 2 decades. They can’t shrink any further because of COVID-19. In fact, they should grow despite contracting college budgets

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Aug 25, 2020
  • 12 Comments

Can Highly Selective Journals Survive on APCs?

Are the APC levels set for high-end OA journals too low to be sustainable? Are there other ways that might help high-end OA journals pay their way?

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 10, 2016
  • 25 Comments

When Bad Science Wins, or "I’ll See It When I Believe It"

Observational studies claiming an open access citation advantage just keep coming, despite problems in reproducibility and a lack of adequate controls. Are we in for a similar literature on the subject of the impact of social media on readership and citation?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 31, 2016
  • 47 Comments

Advocacy, Analysis, and the Vital Importance of Discriminating Between Them

As the scholarly communication world becomes more complex and the issues we deal with become more politically and emotionally fraught, it becomes increasingly essential that we be able to tell the difference between anlaysis and advocacy. What markers can we look for to help us discriminate between them?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 20, 2015
  • 21 Comments

Tackling the Data-Driven Funding Challenge — a New Skill for Nonprofit Managers

Nonprofit organizations are being asked to measure their social impact. Can they respond to these new challenges?

  • By Alix Vance
  • Sep 1, 2010
  • 3 Comments

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