How are Academic Institutions Innovating Under Pressure
@TAC_NISO Summarizes a NISO webinar discussion on how institutions are innovating their teaching approaches because of the COVID-19 pandemic by going virtual.
Seeking Sustainability: Publishing Models for an Open Access Age
Open access, scholarly publishing, business models, and sustainability. The past is prologue. The present is complex. @lisalibrarian provides SSP a primer.
Academic Libraries at a Pivotal Moment
New findings from Ithaka S+R provide the most recent and comprehensive evidence for how academic library acquisitions and open access initiatives may proceed in light of the present disruptions
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.
Marketing Amidst a Pandemic
Our Chefs reflect on considerations for marketing and marketers amid the pandemic.
Parenting School Aged Children Through a Pandemic
A group of Chefs reflects the struggles we are facing, and the lessons we are learning, about parenting during the pandemic.
Guest Post – Quantifying the Impact of the New Chinese Policy
Christos Petrou analyzes the potential publishing impacts of new Chinese policies on research assessment.
Measuring the Success of Transformative Agreements
I asked twelve publisher/customer pairs how they will measure the success of their transformative deals five years from now. The responses were very interesting.
Making a Plan When Planning Is Impossible
Travel bans, office closures, and conference cancellations have publishers and societies thinking about how best to ensure that scholarly content continues to be reviewed and distributed. This post by Angela Cochran looks at some of the impacts and questions whether this is the new normal.
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”.
Subscribe to Open: A Mutual Assurance Approach to Open Access
As the success of Subscribe to Open grows, what are the benefits and limitations of the model?
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 Open Agenda: European Funder Approaches to Open Science
Rob Johnson of Research Consulting and Vanessa Proudman of SPARC Europe look at a recent survey of of European funders to explore what’s being done to drive change in scholarly communication, and argue that funders’ open policies could be backed up more by funders’ own practices.
Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?
One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?
“Recenter Library Systems on the User”: An Interview with OhioLINK’s Gwen Evans
The major US library consortium OhioLINK has created a vision for the systems that libraries use for acquiring content from publishers, managing collections, and enabling discovery. An interview about this vision with executive director Gwen Evans,