Music Paralysis as We Age
When do we stop making the effort to find new music?
Flourishing in a Machine-intermediated World: The STM Trends Report
The latest STM Trends is out, showing a future where humans and machines are integrated and engaged, supporting research and output sharing.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Gaelle Bequet of ISSN International Centre (ISSN IC)
Today, Alice Meadows talks to Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, for our ongoing Kitchen Essentials series, featuring interviews with leaders of scholarly infrastructure organizations.
Honest Signaling and Research Integrity
Promoting research integrity is not just identifying bad behavior: problem articles can also be detected by the absence of ‘honest’ signals of integrity.
Gates Policy Refresh: What Would Success Look Like?
While the BMGF may be all-in, from an industry perspective the Gates Policy Refresh represents a small but potentially valuable experiment.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tasha Mellins-Cohen of COUNTER
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of COUNTER Metrics (formerly Project COUNTER), which plays a critical role in enabling consistent usage metrics reporting.
Guest Post — Speak Finance: Gain University Support for Open Scholarship
The federal government is mandating that the knowledge and data produced from federal grants be widely available for our collective good. Libraries remain under-resourced to make this happen. Let’s add some new metrics and language to this narrative to help articulate the value of libraries.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tracey Armstrong of CCC
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Tracey Armstrong of CCC, the information solutions provider to organizations around the world.
Guest Post – Publishing Fast or Slow: How Speed Varies for Similar Journals
Christos Petrou looks at the factors that go into determining a journal’s turnaround times, and how we can help authors make better-informed choices.
Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Amy Brand
Robert Harington talks to Dr. Amy Brand of MIT Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
Guest Post — From Singapore to Athens via Hong Kong: The Itinerary of Research Integrity from Scientific Research to Real-life Applications and Policy Making
Research integrity extends beyond the trustworthiness of basic research results and outputs. How can we ensure that the translation and transformation of those research results into societal outputs and governance policies are equally trustworthy?
Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Categorizing Mental Health Research
Hélène Draux presents the first of a two-part effort to chart the topography of mental health scholarship. Here, established methods, including pre-existing classifications are employed.
AI, Translations, and the Dominance of the English Language
AI’s potential for translation makes science fiction gadgets an increasingly likely reality. But how did English become the dominant global language, and just what do we mean by “English”?
Guest Post — There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI
A data scientist reviews ScopusAI (beta) and shares her analysis of its limitations, reliability, and potential.
Guest Post — The Perplexing Puzzle of the Top 2% Scientists List
A list of the most influential scientists suffers from anomalies and inaccuracies.