The Impacts of COVID-19 on Academic Library Budgets: Fall 2020
The pandemic has wrought profound disruption on the academic sector. Today, we share findings from a major research project about the budget situation in US academic libraries.
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.
Talking About – and Maybe Even Selling – Books in a Pandemic
With their audiences in COVID-19 lockdown, publishers are testing out new marketing strategies while some authors are taking matters into their own hands.
A Font for these Uncertain Times
Uncertain times call for distressed typography.
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
The Common (and Bland) Language of Pandemic Era Marketing
How many advertisements have you seen from companies expressing their concern and solidarity with their customers? Can you remember any of them, or have they all blurred together? There may be a reason why…
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.