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.
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.
The New STM Integrity Hub
Interview with Joris van Rossum and Hylke Koers about the new STM Integrity Hub service launch and its potential future developments.
What an Urban Historian and a Physicist Can Tell Us About Building Community…
Meet the keynote speakers for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting.
Community, Inclusivity, Adaptability, and Integrity
In today’s post, Alice Meadows talks to Randy Townsend and Miranda Walker about the recent work they led to identify and articulate SSP’s core values, and how they’ll be embedded in the society’s future activities.
“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?
Revisiting: Historians in Historic Times
We are always living through history. For historians, though, the current moment is always a culmination. Revisiting a post from January 2021 in preparation for a series.
Revisiting: A Parable of Innovation in Publishing — A Mostly True Story
Joe Esposito looks back at a 2011 post offering a parable of the role in innovation in publishing and makes the case that we should not criticize companies that try and fail to do new things.
Wordle, The 1980s Version
What exactly is Wordle, and more importantly, what would it have looked like on a computer in the 1980s?
Guest Post — Research Integrity: Ensuring Trust in Global Research
A look at developments in research integrity, and the attempt to build a universal culture of ethical and responsible practice in research as well as systems within the overall research ecosystem for such a culture to flourish.
How Do We Make Research Assessment More Responsible? – A Multi-stakeholder Discussion
A report on the SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force’s meeting of senior researchers, university administrators, funders, publishers, and representatives from other organizations on the topic of Responsible Research Assessment for the 21st Century.
Is Scientific Communication Fit for Purpose?
Roger Schonfeld argues that openness and politicization together have enabled public trust in science to erode. And science is insufficiently trustworthy. The scholarly communication sector must not ignore this situation.
Book Review — Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
In 2014, Google created a disruption for both libraries (and publishers) with its digitization activities. Where do things stand now? What’s needed to move forward?
Revisiting: When is a Preprint Server Not a Preprint Server?
Revisiting a 2017 post that asks, “When does a preprint become a publication?”
Guest Post — Publishers Integrate Preprints Into Their Workflows
Byron Russell, John Sack, Alison McGonagle-O’Connell, and Tony Alves look at the way publishers are adapting their traditional submission workflows to better integrate the use of preprints.