Guest Post — AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing
Today’s guest bloggers explain how semantic enrichment of scholarly content allows publishers to shape the next generation of technology by making it indispensable to AI.
Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details
In today’s post Alice Meadows shares some of the feedback gathered by MoreBrains and UKRI about the technical requirements of its OA policy, including thoughts from three speakers at a UKRI webinar on the topic.
In the Messy Middle: Observations from the Front Line at the UKSG Forum
The UKSG Forum is “an entire 2-3 day conference stripped back to bare essentials and completed in just one day”. Here are the key takeaways — changing priorities, from global to local; why it is getting harder to keep up and keep order; and the overriding importance of trusted relationships.
Guest Post — Well-meant Is Not Well-done: A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance”
While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality: legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.
Guest Post — Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals
In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.
Guest Post — How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing
Libraries and publishers can work together to improve the availability of accessible published content for people with disabilities. Here we present recommendations to support the cross-sector collaboration necessary to improve the accessibility of content in our communities.
It Takes a Village: Empowering the Community to Improve Scholarly Metadata through COMET
What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…
Announcing the Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact
Five scholarly publishing associations partner to launch a new award recognizing innovation and impact in scholarly communications.
Paywalls are Not the Only Barriers to Access: Accessibility is Critical to Equitable Access
Digital accessibility to the scholarly communications process is core to providing equitable access to the literature.
Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research
Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research.
The Case for Probabilistic Metadata
Moving from a binary right/wrong view of metadata to a probabilistic framework brings many benefits
Ask the Community: What Do Campus Disability Services Staff Most Want Publishers to Know?
We asked Campus Disability Services leaders, “What would you most like Publishers to know?”
Guest Post — Elevating Scholarly Publishing through Collaboration: Insights from Publisherspeak US 2023 Part 2
Part two of a look back at the Publisherspeak meeting — today’s themes: metadata infrastructure and diversity in authorship and editorial processes.
Tracking Research Facilities in Science: A CSIRO/CHORUS Pilot Sets Sail
A new CSIRO/CHORUS project seeks to improve tracking of the use of research faciilities and their impact.
What to Do with the AI Elephant in the Room: A NISO Plus Conference Report
A report from the fifth annual NISO Plus Conference, focusing on AI, metadata, and interoperability for scholarly communications.