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How Does Mandated Code-sharing Change Peer Review? An Interview with PLOS Computational Biology

In today’s Peer Review Week guest post, Joe Pold of PLOS interviews the senior editorial team of PLOS Computational Biology about their experience of mandating code sharing for the journal, and its impact on peer review

  • By Joe Pold
  • Sep 26, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Experience Graduate School with this PhD Simulator

Experience all the highs and lows of graduate school with this new PhD Simulator.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 11, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Thoreau and the Office Cubicle

Fretting over work even as you head out on vacation? A new book on Henry David Thoreau may cause you to rethink employment priorities.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Aug 7, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 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

Trust and the Personal Library

Who holds the particular book needed by a reader? What is the balance between the personal library and the institutional collection?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Jan 9, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2022, Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.

  • By David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Jill O'Neill, Charlie Rapple
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

A History of Encabulation — Advancements From the Turbo Encabulator and the Retro Encabulator Have Led to the Hyper Encabulator

Significant breakthroughs in jargon have enabled the development of the hyper encabulator, sure to serve all your encabulation needs.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 11, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Revisiting — Should You “Revise and Resubmit”? Probably

Today Angela Cochran revisits a post from 2016 on “revise and resubmit” decisions and what it means for authors and editors. Do new peer review models or cascading programs change the use of “revise and resubmit”?

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Aug 22, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Start-up Stories: Mindscape Commons — or, How VR is Helping Develop Medical Students’ Communication Skills

How virtual reality and immersive content is helping medical students gain insight into their patients’ experiences.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 30, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Ask The Chefs: It’s Travel Time Again!

Professional conferences, it’s been a while, but we’re ready for you – or are we? This week we ask the chefs what did you forgot while we were home for 2 years? What’s changed and how are you adjusting?

  • By Ann Michael, Lettie Y. Conrad, Haseeb Irfanullah, Todd A Carpenter, David Smith, Charlie Rapple, Angela Cochran, Judy Luther, David Crotty
  • Jun 14, 2022
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Marketing to the New Generation of Academic Influencers: Mobile First, SEO, Values-led Content and Initiatives

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 13, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Next Steps for CRediT – An Interview with the Co-Chairs

With CRediT now formalized as a standard, Alice Meadows interviews Liz Allen, Simon Kerridge, and Alison McGonagle O’Connell (cochairs of the working group) about what’s next for the taxonomy

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 24, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Ghost of Publishing Past: George Gissing’s “New Grub Street”

A lesson in publishing’s past is provided by George Gissing’s Victorian Era novel.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 23, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?

A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 11, 2022
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Elsevier to Acquire Interfolio

Elsevier intends to acquire Interfolio, the provider of researcher career management services. This deal could offer a lift to Elsevier in its competition with the new Clarivate — if Elsevier can integrate Interfolio effectively.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 25, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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