Guest Post — Pictures Worth a Thousand Words? On Visualizations of Scholarly Workflow
With scholarly communications business models embracing the entirety of the research process, how can visualizations help us understand scholarly workflows?
Openness: An interview with Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science
Robert Harington interviews Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science, discussing openness and findings from his recent report entitled The Ascent of Open Access.
Is the Value of the Big Deal in Decline?
Last week, the University of California terminated its license with Elsevier. Today, Roger Schonfeld argues that leakage has reduced the value of the big deal — and publisher pricing power — while empowering library negotiators.
Guest Post — Leveling the Playing Field: How to Address Global Imbalances in Scholarly Communication
Andrea Powell, STM’s Publisher Coordinator of Research4Life shares recent discussions about obstacles facing researchers in the Global South, not just in accessing scholarly literature but in performing their own research and finding suitable publication channels to communicate it to a global audience.
Finding the Right Training and Career Development Opportunities for Your Organization
Your desk is covered with brochures about getting new skills to meet growing needs, and course offerings for continuing education credits. Your inbox is filled with notices about meetings and webinars. How do you decide which is worth your time?
Ask The Chefs: Prioritizing Organizational Choices
There is always a new tool, method, or model, but no organization can do it all. This month we asked the Chefs about methods for prioritizing choices.
When Does Enhancement Become Deceit? Advertising Food Tricks
Think science has issues with image manipulation? Wait till you see these advertising tricks used to make food look appetizing.
Access Alone Isn’t Enough: Revisiting Calls for Discovery, Infrastructure, Technology, and Training
While open access offers great benefit to lower-income countries, more is needed than just access alone. Revisiting several posts about the bigger picture needs.
Guest Post: Supporting a Connected Galaxy of Knowledge
Elsevier’s Gaby Appleton expands on some of the themes she discussed during the recent STM Association’s panel debate on ‘The future of access” and the work Elsevier is doing in these areas.
More Scholarly Communications Consolidation as Institutional Repository Provider DuraSpace Merges into Lyrasis
Green open access, and in particular the role of institutional repositories in serving up preprints and other journal article artifacts, is going through some substantial transitions. Yesterday, news broke that DuraSpace and Lyrasis are merging. An important development for institutional repositories and related library systems, this is also yet another example of organizational consolidation among membership organizations in the library community in particular. Roger Schonfeld analyzes the merger.
Guest Post: MLA InSight — How to Buy Whisky
A report on the 2018 MLA InSight meeting that brought together librarians and publishers: How can our communities work together in collaborative efforts that actually make a difference?
Welcome to The Great Acceleration
Happy New Year! Does it feel like everything is happening at once? Welcome to The Great Acceleration.