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Guest Post — Public Access to the Endless Frontier

Vannevar Bush’s “The Endless Frontier” served as both blueprint and symbol of the American research enterprise. His writings are worth re-examination, as the country grapples (again) with the relationship between science and the American public.

  • By Alexa Pearce
  • May 19, 2025
  • 1 Comment

A Tumultuous Week at the Library of Congress

Changes in Library of Congress leadership could have profound impacts on copyright and intellectual freedom.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 15, 2025
  • 5 Comments

Ask The Chefs — The NIH Steps on the Open Access Accelerator

The NIH has answered the lingering questions about the future of the Nelson Memo. Not only is it still in effect, it’s being accelerated by six months. We asked the Chefs for their thoughts.

  • By David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Haseeb Irfanullah, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 5, 2025
  • 10 Comments

Trump v. Research: How We Could Turn the Threats into Opportunities

Alice Meadows and guest chef Suze Kundu look at how, by acting collectively across all stakeholder groups, we could turn the Trump administration’s threats against research into opportunities

  • By Alice Meadows, Suze Kundu
  • Apr 30, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing

These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Apr 16, 2025
  • 10 Comments

American Psychological Association’s Stepped Approach to Managing Responsible AI: An Interview with Aaron Wood on Employee Policies, Rights Reservation, and Research Integrity

An interview with Aaron Wood, discussing the APA’s comprehensive approach to AI.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Apr 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments

The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now

The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 2, 2025
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — Challenges in Academic Publishing Amid War: ISSN Issues in Ukraine Threaten Research Integrity

Recently, a group of Ukrainian researchers uncovered serious violations in the use of ISSN identifiers by journals operating in temporarily occupied territories, revealing systematic misuse of academic infrastructure and promoting narratives hostile to Ukraine.

  • By Frances Pinter
  • Feb 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Government Censorship

In response to US government efforts to censor research and researchers, a small group of scholarly communications professionals have launched a Declaration to defend research. Learn more in today’s post by Alice Meadows, one of the members of this group.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 19, 2025
  • 9 Comments

Indirect Costs (Facilities and Administration Cost) Explainer

The US government is looking to drastically reduce the amount paid in “indirect costs” in federal grants. Just what are “indirect costs”?

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 18, 2025
  • 1 Comment

DEIA and Doing the Right Thing

Now is a time when we must continue to stand against censorship and to support the scholarly community in both our words and our actions, according to our ethics and beliefs.

  • By Harrison Inefuku, Rebecca McLeod, Alice Meadows, Charlotte Roh, Brit Stamey
  • Feb 11, 2025
  • 7 Comments

Revisiting: Measuring Societal Impact or, Meet the New Metric, Same as the Old Metric

Bringing back a post from 2018, as funders increasingly demand measurements of “real world” impact from researchers. Does this steer us toward the same traps we’re already in from the ways we already do research assessment and is this short-term thinking problematic for the future of science?

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 4, 2025
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post — Evaluating China’s Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan: A New Era of Research Impact and Standards?

Here we examine the second phase of China’s Journal Excellence Action Plan, its implications, its funding framework, and what it means for Chinese scientific journals, researchers, and the broader international academic publishing community.

  • By Ning Zhang, Gareth Dyke
  • Dec 18, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Access to Science & Scholarship: An Interview with Amy Brand of MIT Press

On September 20, 2024, MIT Press hosted a workshop, Access to Science & Scholarship:  An Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy. I interviewed Amy Brand to discuss the goals and outcomes of the workshop.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 5, 2024
  • 0 Comments

How the SDGs Are Shaping the Research Agenda, and What Publishers Need to Know and Do

Insights from a recent study looking at how the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are influencing research, including recommendations for publishers’ next steps.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Nov 11, 2024
  • 10 Comments

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