New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data
Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.
Guest Post: Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review
Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.
Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.
No One Size Fits All: The Case for Taking a National Approach to PID Adoption
Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative’s recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).
A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.
Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Government Censorship
In response to US government efforts to censor research and researchers, a small group of scholarly communications professionals have launched a Declaration to defend research. Learn more in today’s post by Alice Meadows, one of the members of this group.
Defending the “Walled Garden”: Yes, Academic Libraries Actually Should Focus on the Needs of Their Host Institutions
Academic libraries’ first and most fundamental obligation is to support the work of their host institutions. This doesn’t preclude global engagement, but may put constraints upon it.
Green Open Access – Free for Authors But at a Cost for Readers
Pursuit of Green open access rather than Gold not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers.
What to Expect and How to Connect at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024
A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
Guest Post: College Closures and the Implications for Libraries and Vendors
College closures are increasing across the U.S, and the impacts on libraries, publishers, vendors, and library consortia are intensifying.
Ensuring attribution is critical when licensing content to AI developers
Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.
Revisiting: Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”
Revisiting Rick Anderson’s 2022 post which asks, are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.
Understanding Resilience in Scholarly Publishing
In a world full of natural and man-made shocks and stresses, we need to be resilient against those affecting the academic publishing ecosystem.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Brian Cody of Scholastica
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Alice Meadows talks to Brian Cody, CEO of Scholastica, a provider of software solutions for scholarly organizations — of all types — that publish journals.
Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research
Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research.