Article Sharing Framework: Facilitating Scholarly Sharing Through Metadata
The STM Association released an Article Sharing Framework to facilitate use of scholarly collaboration networks in compliance with new EU Copyright Directive.
Revisiting: Challenges for Academics in the Global South — Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems
Revisiting a 2018 post discussing that for social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this revisited guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.
Experiences Behind the Data: Making Human Sense of Pandemic Usage Reports
As publishers and librarians draw conclusions from the last year of usage data, we must look to qualitative analysis to round out the picture of the human conditions behind the quantitative trends.
Revisiting: The Problem with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Today we revisit Geraldine Cochran’s 2018 post, which offers a chance to understand the differences between the words “diversity”, “inclusion”, and “equity”, and how that understanding can make our efforts toward progress more effective.
Revisiting: Governance and the Not-for-profit Publisher
How can not-for-profit organizations outcompete their commercial rivals? Revisiting Joe Esposito’s 2011 post that lays out a blueprint for success.
Guest Post — Why Learned Societies and Academic Publishers Can Benefit from Hiring PhDs
Learned societies and academic publishers may find that someone with a PhD can offer advantages, such as an insider knowledge of academia.
NFT Technology versus Subscriptions – The Battle for Ownership of Digital Content
NFTs are the next phase in the ongoing tension between forces supporting subscriptions and those supporting ownership of content
Can We Re-engineer Scholarly Journal Publishing? An Interview with Richard Wynne, Rescognito
In today’s post, chefs Alice Meadows and Tim Vines interview Richard Wynne, Founder of Rescognito, a free service for recognizing and promoting Open Research.
Reuse Rights: Disney’s History of Recycling Animation
A historical look at Disney’s reuse of its own content.
Guest Post — Lessons Learned: A Year with GetFTR
Ralph Youngen and Todd Toler look back on what’s been learned over the course of the first year of implementing GetFTR, a solution to enable faster access for researchers to the published journal articles.
Watch Out for the Silent Librarian: An Interview with Crane Hassold
Silent Librarian is an international phishing organization that “angles” for university network credentials on behalf of the Iranian government. Crane Hassold gives us the lowdown on this dangerous scam.
Don’t Miss Your Chance to Participate in the SSP 2021 Annual Meeting!
Send in your proposals for sessions at the 2021 SSP Annual Meeting.
The Role of Information in UN Sustainability Goals: Highlights from the 2020 ASIS&T Meeting
Information scholars address UN sustainability goals during virtual 2020 ASIS&T conference
Guest Post — What We Can Learn from How Academics and the Public View Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Susan Spilka analyzes a series of surveys from Emerald Publishing that asked both academics and the general public about the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion to society.
Guest Post — Video is here. Time to embrace it.
Violaine Iglesias explains how scholarly publishers can embrace and optimize the use of video in publications.