Ask the Chefs: What is the Single Most Pressing Issue for the Future of Peer Review?
What is the single most pressing issue for the future of peer review in scholarly publishing? In advance of Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs.
Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action
Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.
Guest Post — Reputation and Publication Volume at MDPI and Frontiers
Compared to their peak levels, publication volume has declined at MDPI by 27% and at Frontiers by 36%. What’s behind these declines, and how do they reflect the inherent risk in the APC open access model and different approaches to reputation management?
Publishers, Don’t Use AI Detection Tools!
The challenges offered by artificial intelligence require a different approach than that seen for plagiarism detection.
Having the Courage to Explain Research in Plain Language
The Curse of Knowledge is when we assume everyone else understands what we’re talking about, when they don’t. Good communication happens when we have the courage to make it simple.
The Open Access Fund at Edinburgh University Press: An Interview with Nicola Ramsey
An interview with Nicola Ramsey of Edinburgh University Press about the Press’s new Open Access Fund.
Navigating the Shifting Sands: New Directions Organizers on the Upcoming Seminar
Volunteer organizers reflect on SSP’s upcoming 2023 New Directions seminar — early bird registration closes September 8th!
Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works
An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress
Guest Post — Can Inadequate Corrections Turn Misinformation into Disinformation?
Could the failure of a journal to visibly correct known errors in a publication, thereby propagating false information, be considered disinformation?
Fashionable Goodness: Authors’ Choices in Publication
Authors can choose from a number of publication options. What drives an author to self-publish their book? What do they give up when they do?
Generative AI, ChatGPT, and Google Bard: Evaluating the Impact and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing
To identify both benefits and risks of generative AI for our industry, we tested ChatGPT and Google Bard for authoring, for submission and reviews, for publishing, and for discovery and dissemination.
Guest Post – In Defense of Endogeny
While higher rates of endogeny can help indexes identify journals being used for self-promotion, nepotism, or other unethical ends, endogeny itself should not be equated with them and can be the result of a narrow or new field of research.
Will Building LLMs Become the New Revenue Driver for Academic Publishing?
Are scholarly publishers primed to become the critical content suppliers for the big Generative AI companies?
Thoreau and the Office Cubicle
Fretting over work even as you head out on vacation? A new book on Henry David Thoreau may cause you to rethink employment priorities.
Guest Post — Are HIT-backed AI Research Integrity Solutions the Need of the Hour?
In this article, Minhaj Rain explores how human intelligence tasks (HITs) and not simply more AI tools could be the way forward as a reliable and scalable solution for maintaining research integrity within the scholarly record.