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See You in Portland! SSP Annual Meeting Panels featuring Scholarly Kitchen Chefs (and a Song to Get You There)

Here’s where you can find Scholarly Kitchen Chefs at the SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • May 31, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post – Mapping Open Science Resources from Around the World by Discipline

Jo Havemann presents a map containing more than 200 resources and supplementary data nodes across the spectrum of available tools, guidelines, events, and services by research discipline, also including general resources that are sortable by Open Science principle, language or country.

  • By Johanna Havemann
  • Apr 19, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – – Alison Mudditt

Robert Harington and Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS, in conversation in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington, Alison Mudditt
  • Mar 20, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Are We Providing What Researchers Need in the Transition to Open Science?

There are still barriers and hesitations around open research practices. Erika Pastrana and Simon Adar suggest that publishers and technology platforms can better support authors and drive uptake.

  • By Erika Pastrana, Simon Adar
  • Feb 2, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Steven Inchcoombe

Robert Harington talks to Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 30, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post – How Do We Measure Success for Open Science?

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz discusses PLOS’s Open Science Indicators initiatives and shares initial results.

  • By Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
  • Dec 13, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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?

  • By Angela Cochran, Tim Vines, Tao Tao
  • Nov 3, 2022
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Nov 2, 2022
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — The Door to Data Sharing is Slowly Creaking Open

In guest post, Simon Linacre of Digital Science discusses their latest state of open data survey against the backdrop of the recent OSTP memo on expanding public access to research results.

  • By Simon Linacre
  • Oct 17, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Thoughts and Observations on the OSTP Responses to Our Interview Questions

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson reflect on the OSTP’s response to their interview questions, and on some implications of those responses and of the memo itself.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 13, 2022
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

New Light on the New OSTP Memo: An Interview with Dr. Alondra Nelson

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson interview Dr. Alondra Nelson, acting director of the White House Office on Science & Technology Policy when the new OSTP memo was published.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 11, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The New OSTP Memo: A Roundup of Reactions and an Interview Preview

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson provide a roundup of responses to the new OSTP public access memo — and a preview of their interview with OSTP leadership.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 3, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Fellows: SSP 2022 Annual Meeting

We ask the 2022 Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellows to offer their thoughts on this year’s Annual Meeting.

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Jun 17, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post – Perspectives on a “Unified Approach” to the Future of Open Access  

There is value in exploring the concept of different perspectives on open access in order to begin to develop a “unified approach to open”.

  • By Melissa H. Cantrell, Michael R. Donaldson
  • Jan 11, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Adeline Rosenberg
  • Nov 16, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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