Guest Post — Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
Adeline Rosenberg offers a look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.
Revisiting: How Traditional Publishing Works
Revisiting a 2018 primer on the business side of publishing. The defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.
Recognition in Peer Review
Haseeb Irfanullah looks at recognition in peer review, what’s offered now and what’s on the horizon. How does this affect the process?
The Experience of Good Metadata: Linking Metadata to Research Impacts
What do we really know about the linkages between good metadata and positive, productive user experiences with scholarly journals?
Open Reviewer Identities: Full Steam Ahead or Proceed with Caution?
Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. Alison Mudditt and Véronique Kiermer take a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.
Ask The Peer Review Week Steering Committee: What does Identity in Peer Review Mean to You?
The Steering Committee of Peer Review Week answers the question “What does identity in peer review mean to you?”
The North is Drawing the South Closer, But, This is Not the Whole Picture of Geographical Inclusion
Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.
Hacking a Top Journals List: A Collective Approach to Developing Metrics?
A hackathon for the Financial Times Top 50 journals list is underway for those who want to shape how metrics are developed. An interview with Andrew Jack.
“Positively Disrupt(ing) Research Culture for the Better”: An Interview with Alexandra Freeman of Octopus
Octopus is a new sharing platform that hopes to disrupt research culture for the better. An interview with founder Dr. Alexandra Freeman.
Revisiting: Balancing Author Satisfaction with Reviewer Needs
In today’s post, Angela Cochran is revisiting the topic of balancing reviewer needs and author expectations. Recent data from one flagship journal showed significant overlap in the reviewer pool within top journals in the field, emphasizing the need to double-down on efforts to diversify.
Guest Post — Intersectionality: Considering Identity When Working Towards a More Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Future
Laura Martin offers a summary of a recent C4DISC panel discussion on Intersectionality and what we can do to better support ourselves and our colleagues.
Pluralism vs. Monoculture in Scholarly Communication, Part 2
Calls for a monoculture of scholarly communication keep multiplying. But wouldn’t a continued diversity of models be healthier?
Guest Post — Of Brown M&M’s and Publishing in Academic Journals
Why did a certain band eliminate brown M&M’s from their dressing room? And what does that have to do with the formatting requirements at some journals? Nathan Stevenson explains.
Making the Case for a PID-Optimized World
In the second of two posts on persistent identifiers in scholarly communications, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share information about a new cost-benefit analysis showing the value of widespread PID adoption
Guest Post — Designing for Hybrid Work: The Silverchair Story
As many organizations are navigating reopening of offices and a hybrid work environment, Silverchair shares their process and learnings over recent months.