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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.

  • By David Green
  • Apr 17, 2025
  • 36 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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.

  • By Stephanie Decker
  • Apr 15, 2025
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — No Data? No Acceptance. How IOP Publishing is Strengthening Open Science

Nicola Davies from IOPP details the publisher’s new data sharing requirements for authors.

  • By Nicola Davies
  • Apr 1, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Are We Fumbling in the Dark or Laying a Strong Foundation for AI Education?

Adapting to AI requires a commitment to fostering AI literacy and creating spaces to openly discuss its challenges and implications.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Mar 31, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs

The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.

  • By Mike Olson
  • Mar 25, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Leading with Heart: The Transformative Power of Empathetic Leadership

Research suggests that empathy is a skill that can be honed and is beneficial to all. Empathetic leadership is an art form to convey to your team that you value them as individuals, all while maintaining a keen focus on the organization’s success.

  • By Damita Snow, Rebecca McLeod, Dana Compton, Jeff Mahony, Gladys Alejandra López Morales
  • Mar 24, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

It Takes a Village: Empowering the Community to Improve Scholarly Metadata through COMET

What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…

  • By Tim Vines
  • Mar 10, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

We Could Use a Model Licensing Framework for Scholarly Content Use in AI Tools

Model licenses simplified library licenses in the 2000s. The same approach can streamline licensing scholarly content for AI training today.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Feb 26, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

AI Rights Reservation: Human Readable is Machine Readable — An Interview with Haralambos (“Babis”) Marmanis

“Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language.”

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Feb 17, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Never Waste a Good Crisis: A Conversation with Klaas Sijtsma, Former Rector Magnificus of Tilburg University

An interview with Klaas Sijtsma discussing the importance of statistical analysis in research integrity.

  • By Natalie Simon
  • Aug 7, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk

Do publishers really understand what tools researchers are using and how they are using them? Can we do more to create better policies based on real use cases and not hypothetical conjecture about what AI might do in the future?

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Jul 22, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Web-scale Institutional Search: How are Vendors Responding to ODI Recommendations?

Providers of library discovery services reflect on the impact and value of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The Case For Not Citing Chatbots As Information Sources (Part II)

Citing chatbots as information sources offer little in terms of promoting smart use of generative AI and could also be damaging.

  • By Leticia Antunes Nogueira, Jan Ove Rein
  • Jun 20, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Nici Pfeiffer of the Center for Open Science

Today’s Kitchen Essentials interview is with Nici Pfeiffer, Chief Product Officer for the Center for Open Science (COS), including the popular and highly-used Open Science Framework (OSF).

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — DOAJ’s Role in Supporting Trust in Scholarly Journals: Current Challenges and Future Solutions

In this post we reflect on the current threats to trust in scholarly journal publishing, and the implications for organizations like Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) that seek to uphold that trust.

  • By Cenyu Shen, Joanna Ball
  • Jun 6, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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