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A Serious Game for Scholarly Publishers: The STM Trends 2027 Helps Publishers Level Up

@TAC_NISO describes STM Association 2027 Trends report released Thursday. It helps people grasp the direction and impact of technology changes in our community so they can “level up”

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 28, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — What is Keeping University Chief Information Security Officers Up at Night

An SNSI research project looks at the views of university Chief Information Security Officers toward network security, potential threats, data security, and the risks posed by Sci-Hub.

  • By Susie Winter
  • Apr 21, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Will New Clarivate Leadership Yield a Renewed Focus on Its Products?

Today, Clarivate has installed Bar Veinstein as president for Academic and Government, a move that should bring renewed focus to the product portfolio, writes Roger C. Schonfeld.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 19, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Textpocalypse: A Literary Scholar Eyes the “Grey Goo” of AI

What will the “grey goo” of AI generated text do to us? A scholar of writing and technology talks with us about AI and Large Language Models.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 13, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post – GPT-3 Wrote an Entire Paper on Itself. Should Publishers be Concerned?

Saikiran Chandha discusses the impact of GPT-3 and related models on research, the potential question marks, and the steps that scholarly publishers can take to protect their interests.

  • By Saikiran Chandha
  • Apr 12, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Fallout from the Implosion of Humanities Enrollments

What does the decline of the English major mean for society at large, and university presses in particular?

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Apr 5, 2023
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Building Support

Part two of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Jocelyn Dawson, Amanda Rogers, Nicola Poser
  • Mar 2, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Fostering Empathy

Part one of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Kasia Repeta, Amanda Rogers, Damita Snow
  • Mar 1, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Guest Post — Entering a New Age of Digital Publishing: Dispatch from Digital Book World 2023

John Warren and his students (MPS in Publishing, George Washington University) share perspectives on attending Digital Book World 2023 and the trends and highlights relevant for scholarly publishers.

  • By John W. Warren, Tina Donnelly, Joshua Luke Johnson, Maria Sviridova Chandis
  • Feb 15, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Know Better, Do Better: Learned Publishing Reflects on DEIA in Scholarly Communications

The first 2023 issue of Learned Publishing reflects on how to make lasting, meaningful improvements to our industry’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA).

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 7, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Measuring Metadata Impacts: Books Discoverability in Google Scholar

Although Google Scholar claims to not use DOI metadata in its search index, a recent study finds that books with DOIs are generally more discoverable than those without DOIs.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Michelle Urberg
  • Jan 17, 2023
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Return of the Big Deal: Developments in Texas and India

New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 4, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Books Are For Use and What That Means

We don’t talk very much about physical production values for books. What message does that send to readers of scholarly titles?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Dec 6, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Unnecessary Research Bureaucracy is Killing Academic Productivity, But it IS Fixable

Research bureaucracy and administrative burden has become so overpowering that many researchers are reporting that they don’t have time to do any research anymore. Phill Jones argues that technology in the form of PIDs will go a long way to fixing this.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Dec 5, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Predator Effect – Fraud in the Scholarly Publishing Industry: An Interview with Simon Linacre

An interview by @lisalibrarian with Simon Linacre, author of “The Predator Effect”

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 28, 2022
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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