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?
Book Review: Academic Freedom, edited by Jennifer Lackey (Oxford University Press, 2018)
A review of Academic Freedom the latest book in Oxford University Press’s series Engaging Philosophy.
Springer Nature Syndicates Content to ResearchGate
A pilot project representing the first significant experiment with the syndication of publisher content to a content supercontinent.
Why You Should Care about Open Access: An Open Letter to Scholarly and Scientific Authors
If you’re a scholarly and scientific author and you think the open access movement is irrelevant to your interests, think again.
Is Hybrid a Valid Pathway to Open Access? Publishers Argue Yes, in Response to Plan S
As we await the next communication from Coalition S, the largest publishers indicate that they will not abandon the hybrid pathway for open access.
Editorial Independence and Journal Ownership in the Age of Open Science
The editorial board for the Journal of Informetrics declared checkmate when they resigned over Elsevier’s open access and open citations policies. Raising both practical and moral questions of journal ownership, the editors of Learning Publishing ask: What can this power move tell us about editorial ownership in the age of open science?
Writing Styles, Roald Dahl, and Writing Huts
We all have our individual approaches to work. Here, author Roald Dahl offers a tour of his process and his backyard writing hut.
Data Transparency and Civil Engineers
Civil Engineers rely on data from a multitude of sources. Angela Cochran shares what ASCE has learned in the process of setting up Data Availability Statements as well as insights from a recent Ithaka S+R study on the subject.
Guest Post: Encouraging Data Sharing: A Small Investment for Large Potential Gain
Data Availability Statements are a powerful tool in promoting data sharing, but what does it take to include them in a journal workflow?
Ask The Chefs: The Future Form Of Scholarly Communication
With the changes afoot in scholarly communications practices, sentiment, and business models, the Chefs consider: What are we aiming for?
Celebrating 30,000 Open Access Articles … PARs, RAPs, and Exploring Implications
Does the Wiley/DEAL Publish-and-Read agreement open new pathways to open access? And what’s a PAR anyway?
Different Places, Different Voices
Highlighting a sampling of posts by authors from around the globe to help raise awareness of the communication needs and concerns of the international scholarly community.
Plan S: What About Researchers?
In this article, Robert Harington implores Plan S leaders and funders to take researcher needs to heart.
Welcome to The Great Acceleration
Happy New Year! Does it feel like everything is happening at once? Welcome to The Great Acceleration.