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Are Price, Value, and Openness the Most Important Scholarly Communication Priorities?

Today, Roger Schonfeld argues that there are scholarly communication priorities that merit focus beyond price, value, and openness and which require cross-sector collaboration.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 5, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Barbara Kline Pope

Robert Harington talks to Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 15, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Who Would Have Thought That We Needed Another Listserv?

Open Café, a new listserv dedicated to the free and open discussion of open scholarship has been met with enthusiasm by the scholarly communication community.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 5, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

The Second Digital Transformation

The scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. Today, Ithaka S+R reviews this strategic landscape as part of a broader analysis of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Oya Y. Rieger, Tracy Bergstrom
  • Jan 29, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Society Publishers Respond to Plan S “Towards Responsible Publishing” Proposal

Three global society publishers respond to cOAlition S’s recent “Towards responsible publishing, a proposal from cOAlition S”.

  • By IOP Publishing, AIP Publishing, American Physical Society
  • Jan 17, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

The Year in Review: 2023 in The Scholarly Kitchen

Before we launch into 2024, a look back at 2023 in The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 2, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Library Licensing Strategies

Libraries are accelerating engagement with transformative and pure publish agreements, balancing contract-based publishing support with an APC fund, and investing in the scholarly communications ecosystem.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 19, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder

Noted journalist and scholarly communication observer Richard Poynder explains why he has given up on the open access movement.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Dec 7, 2023
  • 87 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

The Problem at the Heart of Public Access

The intended beneficiary of public access is “the American public,” and we need so much more than access to the biomedical literature.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Dec 5, 2023
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask The Chefs: cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing”

We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Angela Cochran
  • Nov 16, 2023
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post: Mind the Gap – Understanding China’s Perspective on Research Integrity and Open Access

Nicko Goncharoff presents an overview of the STM/CUJS China Symposium and offers key takeaways, including China’s increasing concern over APCs and Gold OA costs, divergent views on research integrity, and better routes to cooperation.

  • By Nicko Goncharoff
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Approaching Artificial Intelligence and Open Research in Sync: Opportunities and Challenges

Separately, both open research and AI are considered disrupters, causes of disorder in the normal continuance of scholarly publishing. But approaching them in a synchronized way can offer more productivity gains and efficiencies than taking them on individually.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 14, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 30, 2023
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Chefs Panel Discusses AI, Integrity and Open Content in Frankfurt

A report of the Chef’s panel on AI, Open content, and research integrity during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 24, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

AI and Scholarly Societies

Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Oct 11, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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