Pluralism vs. Monoculture in Scholarly Communication, Part 2
Calls for a monoculture of scholarly communication keep multiplying. But wouldn’t a continued diversity of models be healthier?
Guest Post — Trends, Challenges, and Needs of Research in the Global South: Learnings as Research4Life Turns 20
Every five years Research4Life commissions in-depth reviews of its work to understand how the work of the partnership is experienced from the users’ as well as the partners’ perspectives. Domiziana Francescon discusses the latest findings.
Preprints Are Not Going to Replace Journals
At a recent meeting, a debate was held on the motion: Preprints are going to replace journals. I was asked to oppose the motion and this post is based on my arguments.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast: Episode 8, Open Access (Part 2)
This eighth episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast is the second in a two-part series on open access publishing. In this episode, Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Ann Michael (DeltaThink) discuss some of the more complex aspects of the OA landscape, such as funder mandates, Plan S, and transformative agreements.
AAAS Plan S Compliance Policy: Staying Committed to Subscriptions
AAAS continues its commitment to the subscription model to praise from cOAlition S. Are there lessons for other publishers?
Ask the Fellows: SSP 2021 Annual Meeting
Members of the 2020 class of SSP Fellows share their top take-aways from the recent SSP Annual Meeting.
Guest Post — Open and Faster Scholarly Communication in a Post-COVID World
Liz Bal from Jisc discusses the scholarly publishing lessons learned from COVID-19, and how they can be applied to make research communication more efficient and effective.
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.
Guest Post — Designing for Hybrid Work: The Silverchair Story
As many organizations are navigating reopening of offices and a hybrid work environment, Silverchair shares their process and learnings over recent months.
What’s Wrong with Paying for Peer Review?
Lots of things are wrong with paying for peer review, according to Tim Vines and Alison Mudditt in the recent R2R conference debate
What Universities Have Wrought: An Interview with Davarian Baldwin
The crises that US universities are producing in cities are intensifying as fast as others they face. An interview with Davarian Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower.
Revisiting: Dear Reader, Are You Reading?
What does it actually mean to read digitally? Revisiting a 2018 post in light of the ongoing, pandemic-fueled drive to digital.
Revisiting: Turning a Critical Eye on Reference Lists
In today’s post, Angela Cochran revisits her call to provide more editorial scrutiny to journal article references. Several new automated tools now available will help editors determine whether references are appropriate for including in scholarly works.
Guest Post — The 10,000-watt Bulb: How Preprints Shine a Light on Misconduct
Michele Avissar-Whiting of Research Square discusses the value of preprints for uncovering unethical and fraudulent research behaviors early in the publication process.