Guest Post — Crossref at a Crossroads: All Roads Lead to Crossref
Amy Brand from MIT Press and the Crossref Board of Directors offers her thought on this crucial moment in the evolution of Crossref and the scholarly communications infrastructure.
Guest Post — A Look at the User-Centric Future of Academic Research Software — And Why It Matters, Part 1: Trends
Part 1 of a two-part look at the rapidly evolving research software space and how it is changing scholarly communication.
Guest Post — Why Inclusion Matters to Technology and Technology Matters to Inclusion
Today’s guest post is by Betsy Beaumon CEO of Benetech and keynote at SSP’s annual meeting this year. She shares her passion for technology solutions to accessibility, and for making the scholarly publishing world more inclusive of people with disabilities.
Fighting Citation Pollution — The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited
Scholarly publishing needs a scalable, easily adopted, and industry-wide approach to the problem of author manuscripts including citations to articles in fraudulent journals.
Breaking News: Annette Thomas Leaves Clarivate
Breaking News Today: Following Clarivate’s public listing and a high level reorganization, Web of Science Group CEO Annette Thomas is departing
Peer Review Week — the Podcast and the Videos!
We’re delighted to end this year’s Peer Review Week celebrations by sharing some great community resources that you can use all year round!
Guest Post — A Perspective from the Peer Review Congress
From the Peer Review Congress, what’s changed and what’s about to change? John Sack conducts an interview with the Executive Director and Co-Director of the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication.
Quality in Peer Review: An Interview with Tracey Brown, Sense about Science
Continuing our celebration of Peer Review Week 2019, today Alice Meadows interviews Tracey Brown, OBE, Director of Sense about Science, which has been involved in Peer Review Week from the start.
How to Be A Good Peer Reviewer
A major factor in determining quality in the peer review process are the reviewers. Without peers providing high-quality reviews, the value-add of the peer review process declines. We started this conversation about what makes a quality peer review within our larger community via Twitter , and came up with a few qualities of good peer reviewers.
Quality is Multi-Dimensional: How Many Ways Can You Define Quality in Peer Review?
And we’re off! Alice Meadows and Karin Wulf kick off the fifth annual Peer Review Week with their thoughts on defining quality in peer review principles and practices.
Ask The Chefs: Peer Review Quality
Quality means different things to different people. How do you think different stakeholders would define quality in peer review?
Guest Post — Pinot Noir, Australia, and Peer Review
On the eve of a peer review seminar in Australia, Alex Christopher interviews CSIRO’s Andrew Stammer and Publons’ Tiago Barros on the current state of peer review.
Thinking about the Art and Science of Image Description: An Interview with textBOX Founders
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the folks at textBOX can help publishers present that descriptive text (“alt-text”) to the online world, meeting key accessibility and discoverability demands.
Guest Post: Cost per Use Overvalues Journal Subscriptions
Curtis Kendrick, Dean of Libraries at Binghamton University, raises questions about whether cost-per-use is the appropriate metric for measuring the comparative value of library subscriptions.
Will Libraries Help Publishers Prop Up the Value of the Big Deal?
The value of the big deal has declined. Will libraries drive down its price — or help publishers prop up its value?