Intended Audience and Actual Distribution: A Growing Mismatch?
Researchers write articles for a primary audience of peers. Open access has expanded the actual distribution. What to do about the growing mismatch?
A Serious Game for Scholarly Publishers: The STM Trends 2027 Helps Publishers Level Up
@TAC_NISO describes STM Association 2027 Trends report released Thursday. It helps people grasp the direction and impact of technology changes in our community so they can “level up”
The Double-Cost of Green-via-Gold
Open access is public access. With the Nelson OSTP memo as a catalyst for Green-via-Gold, will we still need agency repositories?
Drawing Lines to Cross Them: How Publishers are Moving Beyond Established Norms
Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.
Textpocalypse: A Literary Scholar Eyes the “Grey Goo” of AI
What will the “grey goo” of AI generated text do to us? A scholar of writing and technology talks with us about AI and Large Language Models.
Guest Post – GPT-3 Wrote an Entire Paper on Itself. Should Publishers be Concerned?
Saikiran Chandha discusses the impact of GPT-3 and related models on research, the potential question marks, and the steps that scholarly publishers can take to protect their interests.
Guest Post — Why Interoperability Matters for Open Research – And More than Ever
Rebecca Lawrence discusses how connections across all aspects of the system are needed for open research to flourish and deliver upon its promise.
Guest Post — Academic Publishers Are Missing the Point on ChatGPT
Avi Staiman discusses the value that ChatGPT can bring to scholarly communication, particularly leveling the playing field for English as an Additional Language authors.
Controlled Digital Lending Takes a Blow in Court
A Federal judge’s ruling offered a stern rebuke of the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library and its controlled digital lending service, providing a significant victory for the four publishers that had filed suit.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Ziyad Marar
Robert Harington talks to Ziyad Marar, President of Global Publishing at SAGE, and author of “Happiness Paradox” and “Intimacy”, and most recently “Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood”
Guest Post — Open Access for Monographs is Here. But Are we Ready for It?
Reporting on a Mellon-funded open access monograph pilot, UNC Press Director John Sherer notes successes and remaining challenges.
The Ivies (Plus) Have Concerns about the Nelson OSTP Memo
Is the OA movement painting itself into a corner with concerns about new OA rules and regulations?
Guest Post — Open Access Beyond Scholarly Journals
Thilo Koerkel presents a new publication, aimed filling the gap between the popular science magazine Scientific American and the highly technical specialist language of research journals. How potentially useful is this approach?
Guest Post — ChatGPT: Applications in Scholarly Publishing
Craig Griffin looks at potential applications we might see for tools like ChatGPT in scholarly publishing. Also included — a research results haiku.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Antonia Seymour
Robert Harington talks to Antonia Seymour, CEO of IOP Publishing, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.