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Guest Post — How Will the Needs of Emerging Professionals/Academics Change Scholarly Communications in the Future?

SSP and the Charleston Library Conference have partnered to offer a scholarship program to attend each organization’s annual meetings. Here, the winning essay from Lynnee Argabright offers thoughts on how the needs of emerging professionals/academics change scholarly communications in the future.

  • By Lynnee Argabright
  • Oct 31, 2019
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

What Do Researchers Want from Publishers? An Interview with Dr Milka Kostic

Former scientist, turned publisher, turned research program director, Milka Kostic is uniquely placed to look at publishing from a researcher and a publisher perspective. In this interview with Alice Meadows, she shares her thoughts on both.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Oct 30, 2019
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature

How many articles from predatory journals are being cited in the legitimate (especially medical) literature? Some disturbing findings.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Oct 28, 2019
  • 51 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast: Episode 1

A new podcast from the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Meredith Adinolfi and Sara Grimme launch a series for early career professionals.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Oct 25, 2019
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Ask The Chefs: Beyond the APC

It’s Open Access week so this month we asked the chefs: What’s next for OA? What lies beyond the APC as a funding model? Let us know your thoughts!

  • By Ann Michael
  • Oct 24, 2019
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Crossref at a Crossroads: All Roads Lead to Crossref

Amy Brand from MIT Press and the Crossref Board of Directors offers her thought on this crucial moment in the evolution of Crossref and the scholarly communications infrastructure.

  • By Amy Brand
  • Oct 22, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Open Access Books: The First 100 Books from Johns Hopkins University Project

100 out of print books are now Open Access, the first of 200 in a project from JHU Press on the MUSE Open platform. What are the goals of this project and the lessons learned thusfar?

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Oct 21, 2019
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Accent Identification

How well do you know regional accents? Some tips on locating a speaker’s origins.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 18, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

The Second Wave of Preprint Servers: How Can Publishers Keep Afloat?

In this guest post, Rob Johnson and Andrea Chiarelli of Research Consulting discuss the findings of their recent research study into the recent growth of preprint servers and explore how publishers might respond.

  • By Rob Johnson, Andrea Chiarelli
  • Oct 16, 2019
  • 19 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

A New Academy to Train Librarians and Researchers about Data Management Has Launched. RDMLA Answers Our Questions.

A new set of courses in research data management is being offered to librarians. Todd Carpenter talks with the founders of the RDMLA to find out more.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 15, 2019
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Pencil Making

How do they get the lead in the pencil? All will be revealed in today’s video.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 11, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — A Look at the User-Centric Future of Academic Research Software — And Why It Matters, Part 2: Implications

Part 2 — how will the rapidly evolving world of researcher software impact scholarly communications?

  • By Tyler Whitehouse, Isabel Thompson
  • Oct 8, 2019
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — A Look at the User-Centric Future of Academic Research Software — And Why It Matters, Part 1: Trends

Part 1 of a two-part look at the rapidly evolving research software space and how it is changing scholarly communication.

  • By Tyler Whitehouse
  • Oct 7, 2019
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Why Inclusion Matters to Technology and Technology Matters to Inclusion

Today’s guest post is by Betsy Beaumon CEO of Benetech and keynote at SSP’s annual meeting this year. She shares her passion for technology solutions to accessibility, and for making the scholarly publishing world more inclusive of people with disabilities.

  • By Betsy Beaumon
  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Research Data Sharing Business Landscape

Sharing research data is increasingly becoming a real business. Today, we provide an overview this landscape and highlight several recent announcements that may indicate future strategic prospects. 

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Rebecca Springer
  • Oct 2, 2019
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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