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Guest Post — Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record

In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle — from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.

  • By Michele Avissar-Whiting
  • Jun 7, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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.

  • By Katherine Skinner, Christina Drummond
  • May 19, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 2)

An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 18, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 1)

An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 17, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?

A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 11, 2022
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Weaponizing the Research Community

The research community is increasingly caught up in geopolitical events and strategies.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 5, 2022
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Open Access in Japan: Tapping the Stone Bridge

Matthew Salter takes a look at the new open access policy from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

  • By Matthew Salter
  • May 4, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

A Reorganization at Elsevier

Today, Judy Verses starts as Elsevier’s President for Academic and Government, completing CEO Kumsal Bayazit’s market-based leadership structure for platform-driven corporate strategy.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • May 2, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Annual Reviews’ Subscribe To Open: From Idea To Full Adoption

Annual Reviews will offer their journals as Subscribe to Open. Come read our interview with Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-in-Chief.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Apr 28, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post: Open Access and the Direction Moving Forward

A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.

  • By A.J. Boston
  • Apr 26, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

“Common Knowledge” and How False Facts Become Entrenched

Some scientific “urban legends” get debunked in today’s video. How does incorrect “common knowledge” become established?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 18, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Retroactively Open: Elsevier Backflips for NERL Agreement

In a novel license agreement, Elsevier agrees to open backfile content from a consortium of elite private institutions. Will other libraries and publishers follow this model?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Mar 16, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – Plan S and Scholarly Publishing: Some Lessons Learned

Sally Ekanayaka reviews a webinar featuring several key players in implementing Plan S and asks what lessons have been learned?

  • By Sally Ekanayaka
  • Mar 8, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 3, 2022
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post: Preprint Feedback is Here – Let’s Make it Constructive and FAST

ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.

  • By Sandra Franco Iborra, Jessica Polka, Iratxe Puebla
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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