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What To Do Once the Paper is Retracted: NISO Issues Recommended Practice on the Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern

New NISO guidance on clear consistent display of retraction information will reduce inadvertent reuse of erroneous research.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 16, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Case for Probabilistic Metadata

Moving from a binary right/wrong view of metadata to a probabilistic framework brings many benefits

  • By Tim Vines
  • Jul 10, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Impact of AI on Information Discovery: From Information Gathering to Knowledge Application

In this post – the first of two discussing artificial intelligence and information discovery – we explore the evolution of information discovery, its role in the research journey, and how it can be applied to help researchers and publishers alike.

  • By Hong Zhou, Hiba Bishtawi
  • Apr 30, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Elevating Scholarly Publishing through Collaboration: Insights from Publisherspeak US 2023 Part 2

Part two of a look back at the Publisherspeak meeting — today’s themes: metadata infrastructure and diversity in authorship and editorial processes.

  • By Ravi Venkataramani, Sowmya Mahadevan, Abhaya Ranganathan, Jason De Boer, Louise Russell, Patricia Kershaw, Richard di Santo, David Haber, Randy Townsend
  • Apr 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Gaelle Bequet of ISSN International Centre (ISSN IC)

Today, Alice Meadows talks to Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, for our ongoing Kitchen Essentials series, featuring interviews with leaders of scholarly infrastructure organizations.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 22, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tracey Armstrong of CCC

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Tracey Armstrong of CCC, the information solutions provider to organizations around the world. 

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 3, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Tracking Research Facilities in Science: A CSIRO/CHORUS Pilot Sets Sail

A new CSIRO/CHORUS project seeks to improve tracking of the use of research faciilities and their impact.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 25, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Navigating the Drift: Persistence Challenges in the Digital Scientific Record and the Promise of dPIDs

The internet was not designed to provide a permanent digital record of scientific research. This post looks at current approaches to addressing the shortcomings of the existing Internet technology, identify remaining bottlenecks, and suggest how they could be resolved. Upgrades to the backbone of the scientific record could go a long way toward addressing the replication crisis and the increasing challenges for publishers to spot fake research. 

  • By Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, Erik Van Winkle
  • Mar 14, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Shared Print & Sustainability through the Looking Glass

This is the second in our two-part series highlighting the need for shared print, as a community of membership programs working in parallel to a common goal of long term preservation and access to print resources, to evolve in order to become a more cohesive and sustainable national effort

  • By Heather Weltin, Alison Wohlers, Amy Wood
  • Mar 7, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

What to Do with the AI Elephant in the Room: A NISO Plus Conference Report

A report from the fifth annual NISO Plus Conference, focusing on AI, metadata, and interoperability for scholarly communications.

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Alice Meadows, Tim Vines
  • Feb 22, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — How Identifiers Can Help Publishers Do a Better Job of Curating the Scholarly Record   

As scholarly journal editorial practices are the subject of growing scrutiny, publishers should explore “quality signals” systemically derived from researcher identity and metadata associated with identity.

  • By Richard Wynne
  • Feb 13, 2024
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn of DataCite

In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn, respectively Executive Director and Director of Community Engagement for DataCite.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 12, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Protecting Commercial AI Rights is Harder than You Think — EU Edition

Legislation often lags technological advances. The EU’s Digital Single Market Copyright Directive leaves many open questions regarding AI text- and data-mining.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Feb 1, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Maria Gould of ROR

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Alice Meadows interviewed Director Maria Gould for today’s Kitchen Essentials post.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 30, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

#PIDfest – Bringing the PID Community Back Together Again!

There’s a new PID conference in town – PIDfest will take place at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague on June 11-13, 2024. Learn more in this post by Mary Beth Barilla and Alice Meadows, respectively,chairs of the Marketing & Communications and Programme Committees

  • By Alice Meadows, Mary Beth Barilla
  • Jan 24, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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