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Archives: Regulation

Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk

Do publishers really understand what tools researchers are using and how they are using them? Can we do more to create better policies based on real use cases and not hypothetical conjecture about what AI might do in the future?

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Jul 22, 2024
  • 7 Comments

Design Matters: What Should the Future of Transportation Sound Like?

Designers have spent decades trying to reduce the sounds that cars make. Now with electric vehicles, they are being forced to add sounds to provide feedback to drivers and pedestrians. What should the future sound like?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 12, 2024
  • 1 Comment

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 14: Open Access Update- A Run-Down of the OSTP Nelson Memo with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe provides a current refresh on the open access (OA) funding landscape, and more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Jul 18, 2023
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Dropping the Hammer — Predatory Publishers Get Pounded by Regulators and the Press

Recent coordinated investigatory journalism articles, along with separate regulatory actions, are squeezing predatory publishers. But are the root causes being addressed?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 30, 2018
  • 6 Comments

The Wake-up Call — Looking Back at 2017, and Some Factors Affecting 2018

2017 may have been a watershed year for the Internet and its future. What did we learn? And what factors may shape 2018?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 21, 2017
  • 21 Comments

About Face — Scholarly Publishing and Social Media Regulation

A possible consequence of moves to more tightly regulate social media companies may be they start looking for new investments. And they already have some in scholarly publishing.

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

Love That Dirty Water — Are We Headed Toward a "Clean Science Act"?

With greater awareness of the foibles and failings of scientific publishing, weaker self-regulation systems, and a trend toward governmental regulation of funding, is external regulation of the scientific journals system now inevitable?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 5, 2016
  • 7 Comments

Why a Politician’s Dollar Is Worth More than a Dollar

How can $1 be worth more than $1? Let a lobbyist teach you.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 6, 2009
  • 0 Comments

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