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“Mrs. Foster Has Sworn A Rape”; or, What Do We Owe? Generosity, Attribution, and the Perilous Invisibility of Research Infrastructure

Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jan 18, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions

Proposing a model for thinking about the interactions of rigor, cogency, accessibility, significance, openness, and impact in scholarly quality.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 13, 2019
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Is The Future Of Peer Review?

Looking forward to Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs “What is the future of peer review?” #PeerRevWk16

  • By Ann Michael
  • Sep 15, 2016
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Watching and Documenting An Evolving Scholarly Record

What will scholarly output become? Jill O’Neill, with co-contributors Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie of OCLC, looks at the evolving scholarly record.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Jun 2, 2016
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Scholarly-Communication Reform: Why Is it So Hard to Talk About, and Where are the Authors?

Why is it so frustrating and difficult to talk about scholarly-communication reform, and why do those conversations seem to involve virtually all members of the scholcomm ecosystem except for authors?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 16, 2016
  • 45 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

1,000 Years of Popular Music

A bit of underappreciated scholarship for your Friday entertainment.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 17, 2014
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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