Inclusive R&D: Can it Become the Rule, Not an Exception?
Inclusive publishing and design practices should be the status quo and not an afterthought.
What to Expect and How to Connect at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024
A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
Forget about AI, Here Comes PowerPoint
Did you know that PowerPoint is the only computing application you need to do, well, anything?
A Look Under the Hood of Scopus AI: An Interview with Maxim Khan
To learn about how Scopus AI works under the hood, we interview Elsevier Sr. VP of Analytics Products and Data Platform, Maxim Khan.
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.
bioRxiv and Citations: Just Another Piece of Flawed Bibliometric Research?
Even a flawed paper can offer lessons on how (not) to report, and what (not) to claim.
The Impact of AI on Information Discovery: From Information Gathering to Knowledge Application
In this post – the first of two discussing artificial intelligence and information discovery – we explore the evolution of information discovery, its role in the research journey, and how it can be applied to help researchers and publishers alike.
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.
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.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Will Schweitzer of Silverchair
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Will Schweitzer of SilverChair, the independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers.
Navigating the Page and The Reader’s Task
Juggling formats of print vs. digital for books, have developers simply given up on whether there’s room to improve navigation and design?
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Lauren Kane of BioOne
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Lauren Kane of BioOne, a community-based platform that provides global distribution for more than 350 journals and eBooks in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Working Toward Compliance and Beyond
Today’s post puts the spotlight on the European Accessibility Act (EAA) directive and how different organizations are getting ready to make their publications and services EAA compliant.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Phoebe McMellon of GeoScienceWorld
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Phoebe McMellon about her career trajectory and her work at GeoScienceWorld.
Guest Post — Scholarly Social: Findings from the SSP Social Media Survey
Results from the SSP survey on the changing nature of social media use by publishers, research societies, libraries, vendors, and others in our community.