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.
Richard de Grijs comes to grips with his field’s use of potentially offensive language.
More about books about libraries and librarians, with a compilation of suggested readings.
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year (and more!). Today we offer Part 2 of our suggestions.
Haseeb Irfanullah looks at recognition in peer review, what’s offered now and what’s on the horizon. How does this affect the process?
Why is the latest internet craze so difficult? An engineer explains…
Article Attention Scores for papers don’t seem to add up, leading one to question whether Altmetric data are valid, reliable, and reproducible.
Haseeb Irfanullah takes a look at how volunteerism shapes scholarly communication.
Laura Martin offers a summary of a recent C4DISC panel discussion on Intersectionality and what we can do to better support ourselves and our colleagues.
Which is correct — octopi or octopuses? Or something else?
Survey results on COVID pandemic impacts on researchers and educators across the disciplines, and implications for scholarly publishers.
Organizations are having to shift in person events to virtual for the foreseeable future. In this post, author Colleen Scollans discusses the steps we can take to make virtual events a marketers dream.
Looking back at a 2015 post on the musical “Hamilton”, which raises questions about history and historical practice that reflects what scholars are and aren’t doing.
We stand by our data. We just won’t share it or believe that you replicated our study.
A paper linking tweets and citations comes under attack, but more from the authors’ inability to answer even basic questions about their paper and resistance to share their data.