Remembering Sydney Brenner
Remembering one of the founding fathers of molecular biology and modern genetics, Sydney Brenner.
Cabell’s Predatory Journal Blacklist: An Updated Review
Two years after its initial entry into the marketplace, Cabell’s Blacklist has matured into a carefully crafted and highly useful directory of predatory and deceptive journals.
A Hidden Diversity in Scholarly Publishing
An awareness of how neurodiverse people in academia and scholarly publishing perceive the world can improve working relationships and help them achieve their potential.
Where Does a University Press Sit in its Parent’s Priorities?
The unfortunate news about cutbacks at Stanford University Press makes it clear that all presses must develop strategies to make them more central to the university’s set of priorities.
Ask The Chefs: AI and Scholarly Communications
What is the future of AI in scholarly communications? How can applications of AI in scholarly communications effectively leverage research artifacts?
Oak Beams and Planning for the Long Term
In our day to day lives as publishers, we too often lose track of the long term. A University of Oxford plan provides a stellar example of how to think about the far future.
Investing in the Researcher Experience
Last week’s ACRL and STM conferences demonstrated that libraries and publishers have a renewed desire to understand the researcher experience and embrace the scholarly information practices that will define our future.
Challenges and Opportunities in Pre-published Research
Sharing and evaluating early stage research findings can be challenging, but that’s starting to change. Learn more in this guest post by Sami Benchekroun and Michelle Kuepper of Morressier
Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?
Transcript of a debate held at the 2019 Researcher to Reader Conference, on the resolution “Sci-Hub Does More Good Than Harm to Scholarly Communication.”
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting Focuses on Global Perspectives in Scholarly Publishing
Press release announcing The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 41st Annual Meeting .
Guest Post – How a Conference Comes Together: The SSP 2019 Annual Meeting
SSP’s Annual Meeting is upon us soon. What goes into putting together a scholarly communications conference?
ACRL 2019: Recasting the Narrative
See what Scholarly Kitchen Chef @lisalibrarian is looking forward to at #acrl2019 and sessions where you can find Scholarly Kitchen Chefs presenting.
Guest Post — The Dissertation Publication Requirement: It’s Time for Reexamination
Guest author Rob Schlesinger encourages a rethink of the common requirement that graduate students publish their dissertations.
Alien, the Stage Play
It’s Friday — take a break with this glorious high school stage production of a famous science fiction movie.
Guest Post — Technological Support for Peer Review Innovations
Jessica Polka looks at current technological capabilities for new innovations in peer review.