Guest Post — The Outlook for Data Sharing in Light of the Nelson Memo
What are the likely impacts of the OSTP’s Nelson Memo on data sharing for researchers and repositories?
A New OSTP Memo: Some Initial Observations and Questions
Some initial thoughts on the new OSTP memo on public access to results of federally funded research — and questions about its intent and implications.
Revisiting: Humanities Research Infrastructure is Great ROI
What brings humanities infrastructure together — whether materials-based (content) or process-based (projects) or tools-based (platforms and laboratories) — is an iterative process of knowledge creation. Revisiting a post from 2020.
Innovating the Science of Science: A report of the ICSSI meeting
A new conference explores ways research can turn the scientific method onto improving its own results.
What Universities — and Libraries, Researchers, and Publishers? — Owe Democracy
Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are imperiled.
The Quest for Home: Transforming from Grant-funded Project to Sustainable Operation
Grant-funded initiatives eventually need a permanent home; here are some lessons learned from Educopia’s Katherine Skinner and Christina Drummond.
Building the Social and Technical Infrastructures to Transform Research Data Sharing One Plenary at a Time
Twice a year, members of the Research Data Alliance come together for a plenary meeting that brings together active working groups, interest groups, and communities of practice. Phill Jones virtually attended the 18th plenary from the comfort and (COVID) safety of his home office. These are some of his observations about research infrastructure, data standards and persistent identifiers.
PIDs for Peer Review!
To round off Peer Review Week 2021, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share work under way to map out a PID-optimized workflow for peer review – and invite your feedback!
Popularizing Cosmology: The Example of Katie Mack
It also can be something of a trap for a well-intentioned academic who wants to write for this audience, as writing for the lay person is often contemptuously dismissed as “popularization.” Woe to the academic who puts an article from The Atlantic or a book from Simon & Schuster into her tenure portfolio! It takes courage. My view is that these brave souls should be called out and celebrated. They are my heroes.
Guest Post — Why the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy Probably Won’t Work
Shaun Khoo discusses the legal quandaries created by the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy (RRS).
Making the Case for a PID-Optimized World
In the second of two posts on persistent identifiers in scholarly communications, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share information about a new cost-benefit analysis showing the value of widespread PID adoption
Why Publishers Should Care About Persistent Identifiers
Today’s post is the first of two in which we look at the state of persistent identifiers and what they mean for publishers—to coincide with the first meeting, on June 21, of the new UK Research Identifier National Coordinating Council (RINCC) and publication the same day of a Cost Benefit Analysis Report, funded by the UK Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for Open Access project.
Revisiting: Governance and the Not-for-profit Publisher
How can not-for-profit organizations outcompete their commercial rivals? Revisiting Joe Esposito’s 2011 post that lays out a blueprint for success.
The Biggest Big Deal
The newly announced California/Elsevier transformative agreement will test the financial sustainability and the financial desirability of the multi-payer model.
Celebrating Five Years of PIDapalooza with a 24-Hour PID Party!
Whether or not you attended this year’s 24-hour online party for persistent identifiers, aka PIDapalooza 2021, here’s your chance to read all about it!