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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

Honest Signaling and Research Integrity

Promoting research integrity is not just identifying bad behavior: problem articles can also be detected by the absence of ‘honest’ signals of integrity.

  • By Tim Vines, Ben Kaube
  • Apr 16, 2024
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

A Roadmap for Developing a US National PID Strategy

A new report “Developing a US PID National Strategy,” outlines the desirable characteristics of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and sets the foundation for a cohesive US national strategy.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 21, 2024
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  • Time To Read: 5 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

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

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

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Chris Shillum of ORCID

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Alice Meadows asks Chris Shillum, Executive DIrector of ORCID, to share his thoughts about his career in research infrastructure

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 18, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Introducing Kitchen Essentials — Interviews with the Scholarly Infrastructure Community

Today, Alice Meadows and Roger Schonfeld introduce a new interview series – Kitchen Essentials – featuring leaders of some of the key scholarly infrastructure organizations globally.

  • By Alice Meadows, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 31, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 30, 2023
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Measuring Metadata Impacts on Discoverability: A Conversation at the 2023 AUPresses Meeting

A panel attending the 2023 AUPresses Meeting hosted a conversation about optimizing books metadata and measuring its impact on search experiences in the mainstream web.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Michelle Urberg
  • Oct 3, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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