The Failure of the US Government to Fund Science Infrastructure is Causing Things to Literally Collapse
The Arecibo Observatory collapsed, laying bare the problems of funding science infrastructure.
Getting Beyond Bias to Make the Career Impact You Desire: An Interview with Scismic’s Elizabeth Wu and Danika Khong
An interview with Elizabeth Wu and Danika Khong about their new tool to help reduce bias and increase fit for research careers.
Articles Are the Fundamental Unit of Data Sharing
The FAIR principles answer the ‘How’ question for sharing research data, but we also need consensus on the ‘What’ question.
Revisiting: The Problem(s) With Credit for Peer Review
Revisiting a 2015 post to ask whether we are any closer to offering researchers credit for non-research activities?
Good vs. Evil? Finding the Right Mix of For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Services
Today, Joe and Roger analyze the variety of firms to which the academy can outsource scholarly communication and adjacent priorities: consortia, societies, and commercial enterprises.
Revisiting — On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing
We revisit two posts from 2018. These powerful testimonies, by people of color, about their experience of racism in scholarly publishing, clearly show that we have “a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do” to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry.
Humanities Research Infrastructure is Great ROI — Will We Sell it Short?
Humanities Research Infrastructure is critical social investment, and we could support it better if we understood it better.
Taking a Big Bite Out of the Big Deal
Unsub is the game-changing data analysis service that is helping librarians forecast, explore, and optimize their alternatives to the Big Deal. Librarians breaking away from the Big Deal often credit Unsub as a critical component of their strategy.
Forecasting the US Higher Education Market: A Primer
As scholarly publishers reforecast and consider strategic directions, here is a primer on the US higher education market
Community Engagement Amidst a Crisis
Recognizing the importance of community engagement, but also some of the challenges facing traditional forms of engagement and incumbent facilitators, several chefs reflect on how one facilitates a community amidst today’s crisis.
Guest Post — Report: Gender Diversity in Research is Improving, But We Still Have Work To Do
Bamini Jayabalasingham, Ylann Schemm, and Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski present the takeaways of a new report by Elsevier, “The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens”.
New Chinese Policy Could Reshape Global STM Publishing
A new set of policies mark an effort to largely reform the research and higher education evaluation systems in China. The potential impact on the STM publishing sector is examined.
Guest Post — An Update to OhioLINK’s Affordable Textbooks Initiative
Gwen Evans from OhioLink looks at the positive results of the consortium’s statewide affordable textbooks initiative.
TL;DR (That is, Too Long; Didn’t Read)
Do I really have to read all of that essay or monograph? Can’t artificial intelligence do the heavy lifting for me?
Leveraging a Transformative Agreement to Incentivize Funder Spend
Can a library/publisher transformative agreement attract funder spend?
@lisalibrarian unpacks the SAGE/UNC-Chapel Hill pilot program.