Expanding Scholarly Kitchen Translations Collections
Today we announce another round of article translations, this time into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.
How Will Academia Handle the Zero Embargo?
The OSTP Nelson Memo has caused quite a stir in scholarly communication circles. Today, Roger Schonfeld asks, how will academia handle the zero embargo?
Guest Post — Three Challenges (and Solutions) to Expand Digital Humanities
Chris Houghton discusses how digital archives and new tools are changing approaches for Digital Humanities researchers.
Guest Post — Beyond the “Accidental Profession”: Bringing More Structure, Equity, and Respect to Scholarly Publishing Employment
Charles Watkinson and Lisa Bayer discuss the work of the SSP and AUPresses’ Joint Task Force on Career Progression, aimed at better categorizing publishing positions and promotional pathways.
Guest Post — The Monograph and the Mission: University of Michigan Pledges $1.2 Million to Fund Open Access Book Publishing
The University of Michigan Press discusses its burgeoning open access monograph program.
Revisiting: Humanities Research Infrastructure is Great ROI
What brings humanities infrastructure together — whether materials-based (content) or process-based (projects) or tools-based (platforms and laboratories) — is an iterative process of knowledge creation. Revisiting a post from 2020.
Guest Post — Why Transformative Agreements Should Offer Unlimited Open Access Publishing
Julian Wilson from IOPP explains the benefits offered by unlimited transformative agreements.
Found in a Library Book
The Oakland Public Library shows us what they’ve found.
Revisiting — Building Pipes and Fixing Leaks: Demystifying and Decoding Scholarly Information Discovery & Interchange
A look back at Julie Zhu’s 2019 post that discusses publisher strategies and industry standards for tending to the “plumbing” of content discovery and access.
Announcing Peer Review Week 2022: An Interview with the Co-Chairs
The theme for Peer Review Week 2022 is Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research – learn more in today’s interview with co-chairs Danielle Padua and Jayashree Rajagopalan
Revisiting — Return of the Big Brands: How Legacy Publishers Will Coopt Open Access
Revisiting a 2015 post that predicted the dominance of the cascade model of journal portfolio publishing and the increased dominance of the larger existing publishers in an open access market.
Let the Metadata Wars Begin
Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.
What Universities — and Libraries, Researchers, and Publishers? — Owe Democracy
Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are imperiled.
Desperately Seeking (Statistical) Significance
Twitter does not increase citations, a reanalysis of author data shows. Did the authors p-hack their data?
Revisiting: When is a Publisher not a Publisher? Cobbling Together the Pieces to Build a Workflow Business
Revisiting a 2017 post looking at how, due to the slowing growth of content licensing, sophisticated content providers are building businesses supporting researcher workflow and university business processes.