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Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs

The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.

  • By Mike Olson
  • Mar 25, 2025
  • 12 Comments

Revisiting: Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Revisiting Rick Anderson’s 2022 post which asks, are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 3, 2024
  • 7 Comments

Let’s Be Cautious As We Cede Reading to Machines

AI might help with the deluge of content, but there are problems when we rely on machines to think for us.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jan 25, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Inequities in Grant Funding Start Early: How Can We Address Them?

Inequities are rife in the research process, starting with the pre-award process. Based on feedback and input from researchers, research managers, and others a new report looks at the challenges and makes recommendations for how funders and institutions can address them.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 12, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Swimming in the AI Data Lake: Why Disclosure and Versions of Record Are More Important than Ever

Data quality and record keeping are going to grow in importance as a result of AI applications.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • May 15, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post – AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts

A recap of a recent SSP webinar on artificial intelligence (AI) and scholarly publishing. How can this set of technologies help or harm scholarly publishing, and what are some current trends? What are the risks of AI, and what should we look out for?

  • By Anita de Waard
  • Jan 18, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 3, 2022
  • 17 Comments

Guest Post — Risks from Self-Referential Peer Review: An Interview with Jeffrey Unerman

Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Bahar Mehmani of Elsevier, who interviewed Professor Jeffrey Unerman about his work on the risks of self-referential peer review.

  • By Bahar Mehmani
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Trust as an Ethic and a Practice in Peer Review

Chefs Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf tackle Peer Review Week 2020’s theme of Trust in Peer Review with this post on trust as both an ethic and a practice

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — “I Say Tom-ay-to, You Say Tom-ah-to”: Bias Against Non-Native English Speakers in Scholarly Communications

In today’s guest post, Kasia Repeta of Duke University Press focuses on the often-overlooked issue of bias against those who speak English with an accent and urges us all to be more inclusive.

  • By Kasia Repeta
  • Jan 14, 2020
  • 20 Comments

Book Review: “Technically Wrong,” by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

A new book explores how biases and broken systems get built into technology products and platforms.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 11, 2018
  • 12 Comments

All the News That Fits — What’s Really Driving Altmetric’s Top 100 Articles List?

The Altmetric “flower” is an icon, and the annual Top 100 list a much-anticipated event. But is the flower really a stalk?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 13, 2017
  • 13 Comments

Puppetmasters — Who Is Pulling the Strings in the New Information Economy?

Information manipulation is not new, yet everything is different. How do governments, preprints, algorithms, and our own responsibilities intersect? Where does peer review come in now?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 13, 2017
  • 6 Comments

Building Healthy Online Communities — An Interview with Rachel Happe

Community management has become a key part of social media and online publishing, whether we realize it or not. In this interview, an expert in the fields shares some views of how organizations can benefit from a more singular focus.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 24, 2017
  • 3 Comments

Transforming Research, in the Face of Uncertainty, Scarcity, and Bias

Last week’s Transforming Research conference in Baltimore, MD, gathered a range of speakers across the academic and professional spectrum. Charlie Rapple highlights some of the new research that was shared, and draws out some of the prevalent themes.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Oct 18, 2017
  • 12 Comments

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