Recently, a group of Ukrainian researchers uncovered serious violations in the use of ISSN identifiers by journals operating in temporarily occupied territories, revealing systematic misuse of academic infrastructure and promoting narratives hostile to Ukraine.
A look back, highlighting posts with helpful information on supporting workplace mental wellbeing
The first AI training case has been decided in the US in favor of the copyright holder.
In response to US government efforts to censor research and researchers, a small group of scholarly communications professionals have launched a Declaration to defend research. Learn more in today’s post by Alice Meadows, one of the members of this group.
“Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language.”
Reflections on the current moment from SSP’s Board of Directors.
Academic libraries’ first and most fundamental obligation is to support the work of their host institutions. This doesn’t preclude global engagement, but may put constraints upon it.
Five scholarly publishing associations partner to launch a new award recognizing innovation and impact in scholarly communications.
Now is a time when we must continue to stand against censorship and to support the scholarly community in both our words and our actions, according to our ethics and beliefs.
What are the implications of last Friday’s NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.
Inclusive publishing and design practices should be the status quo and not an afterthought.
A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions about his organization and his career in scholarly infrastructure
College closures are increasing across the U.S, and the impacts on libraries, publishers, vendors, and library consortia are intensifying.
Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.