SXSW Interactive: Slow Down To Speed Up
Back to SXSW this year! Hear about the conference, the speakers, and the themes. Tell us what resonates with you the most!
Guest Post — In Tough Times the Key is to Think Differently
Alan Harvey from Stanford University Press discusses their evolving strategy in turbulent times.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Jasmin Lange
Robert Harington talks to Jasmin Lange, Chief Publishing Officer at Brill, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Judy Verses
Robert Harington talks to Judy Verses, President Academic and Government Markets, Elsevier, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
Guest Post — Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation
Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Mandy Hill
Robert Harington talks to Mandy Hill, Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press in this new series of perspectives from some of publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
Editors can’t spot talent. I’ve heard this joke before. It isn’t funny
Editors at The BMJ are lousy at predicting the citation performance of research papers. Or are they?
Guest Post — The Time Has Come to Start Swimming Upstream: How Meaningful Engagement with Authors Early in the Research Process Can Yield Significant Benefits to Publishers
Avi Staiman discusses how meaningful engagement with authors early in the research process can yield significant benefits to publishers and journals.
Innovation at eLife: An Interview with Damian Pattinson
eLife’s recent announcement that it will reinvent itself as a “service that reviews preprints” has generated much discussion over recent weeks. But what are the primary drivers and goals, and what might we all learn from this bold experiment?
Guest Post – Publishing Fast and Slow: A Review of Publishing Speed in the Last Decade
Christos Petrou analyzes changes in the speed of publication of research articles over the last ten years.
Smorgasbord: Twitter v. Mastodon; Incentivizing Open Science; DEI v. Involution
Another “mixed bag” post from us — Is it time to leave Twitter? How can we incentivize journals and authors to take up open science practices? What is “involution” and is DEIA the solution?
Does Scholarly Publishing Have an Innovation Problem?
Is there an entrenched stasis in scholarly communication in which the core elements of the system have not been much moved by the revolutions happening around us?
It Isn’t Fake Science, Because It Isn’t Science at All. It’s Dupery.
What if even by saying “fake science” you inadvertently participate in a scam? What if this phrase legitimizes fraud, lies, and deceit? Let’s call it what it is – dupery.
Guest Post — Integrity and Trust in Peer Reviewed Literature: Will Journals Be Alone in Doing the Heavy Lifting?
We round out Peer Review Week with a guest post by Erin Landis, Meghan McDevitt, and Jason Roberts of Origin Editorial reporting on the 2022 Peer Review Congress.
Peer Review and Humanities Online: An Interview with Daryle Williams about the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
Key insights on how peer review functions for a new journal, handling data on individual lives of people enslaved in the historical slave trade, that serves both academic and public audiences.