Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections
Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.
Strategies to Improve Open Science Monitoring: Lessons from France’s OSM initiative
The French Open Science Monitor Initiative shows a path toward improving recognition of data sharing and open science assessment.
Guest Post – Bridging the Gap: Localizing Open Science for Asia’s Research Realities
While Open Science frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world.
Guest Post — Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing
These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.
New STM 2029 Trends Report Provides a Bridge to the Future
Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community.
The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now
The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?
Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs
The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.
A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.
It Takes a Village: Empowering the Community to Improve Scholarly Metadata through COMET
What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…
Resetting and Recharging Research Communications in the Sun of Los Angeles: A FORCE11 Conference Report
The FORCE11 conference at UCLA lays the groundwork to continue its efforts to transform research communications and e-scholarship.
A Successful Start to a New Festival of Identifiers: PIDfest 2024
In this post by Todd Carpenter, Phill Jones, and Alice Meadows, you can read all about PIDfest, which brought together nearly 400 persistent identifier users and providers from around the world (in person in Prague, and virtually).
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Richard Jefferson of The Lens
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Richard Jefferson, founder of The Lens, which enables discovery and analysis for scholarly works, patents, and patent sequences.
A Case Study: Investing in Open Scholarly Infrastructure in Ireland Will Save Time and Money. It’ll Also Be Good for Research.
National PID strategies are on the rise. In this post, Phill Jones reports the findings of cost-benefit analysis of investment in PIDs and research infrastructure in Ireland.
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.
Gates Policy Refresh: What Would Success Look Like?
While the BMGF may be all-in, from an industry perspective the Gates Policy Refresh represents a small but potentially valuable experiment.