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Inclusivity is Making This Year’s SSP Annual Meeting Better than Ever

Behind the scenes, we’ve been working over the last 9 months to re-engineer the SSP’s Annual Meeting program to include more new voices in our industry, and we can’t wait to share the results with you.

  • By Tim Lloyd, Erin Foley, Jessie Slater
  • Apr 12, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Gates Policy Refresh: What Would Success Look Like?

While the BMGF may be all-in, from an industry perspective the Gates Policy Refresh represents a small but potentially valuable experiment.

  • By Ann Michael, Dan Pollock
  • Apr 11, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tasha Mellins-Cohen of COUNTER

In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of COUNTER Metrics (formerly Project COUNTER), which plays a critical role in enabling consistent usage metrics reporting.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 10, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Speak Finance: Gain University Support for Open Scholarship

The federal government is mandating that the knowledge and data produced from federal grants be widely available for our collective good. Libraries remain under-resourced to make this happen. Let’s add some new metrics and language to this narrative to help articulate the value of libraries.

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Apr 9, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Susan King

Robert Harington talks to Dr. Susan King of Rockefeller University Press (RUP), in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Apr 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Evolution of Pronunciation

Which words do you mispronounce? Or rather, which words that you mispronounce today will eventually be “correct”?

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 5, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Transitional Agreements Aren’t Working: What Comes Next?

Transitional agreements are proving to be neither transitional nor transformative. How should libraries and publishers reassess and chart a different course?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Apr 4, 2024
  • 27 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post – Making Sense of Open Access Business Models

A classification scheme for open access business models.

  • By Tasha Mellins-Cohen
  • Mar 26, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Tracking Research Facilities in Science: A CSIRO/CHORUS Pilot Sets Sail

A new CSIRO/CHORUS project seeks to improve tracking of the use of research faciilities and their impact.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 25, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles?

Journal articles with ChatGPT authored text are being found. How common is this in the literature? And how, or better yet, when, is this problematic text slipping through to publication?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 20, 2024
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 17: Interview with Editor-in-Chief of Nature Magdalena Skipper

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) chat with Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature and the first woman to lead the journal.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Mar 15, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Amy Brand

Robert Harington talks to Dr. Amy Brand of MIT Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Shared Print Down the Rabbit Hole

Libraries’ ability to steward print collections in the future is being compromised by how we manage them now. How can we evolve our shared print strategy to align with the core values of libraries, and to increase the value proposition of print collections. Part 1 of 2.

  • By Heather Weltin, Alison Wohlers, Amy Wood
  • Mar 6, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Are Price, Value, and Openness the Most Important Scholarly Communication Priorities?

Today, Roger Schonfeld argues that there are scholarly communication priorities that merit focus beyond price, value, and openness and which require cross-sector collaboration.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 5, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Niko Pfund

Robert Harington talks to Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 29, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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