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Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect

Will the next generation of professions be impressed with the content platforms and workflow tools we currently have? Angela Cochran imagines a world where we meet the challenge of modernized systems.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Feb 27, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

NIH Cuts ICR – Implications for Research Institutions and Scholarly Publishing

What are the implications of last Friday’s NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Feb 10, 2025
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Should Publishers Invoice Authors for Retraction Costs?

It is essential to address the hidden costs of retraction and to discuss who needs to bear this cost.

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Chirag Jay Patel
  • Aug 8, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — DOAJ’s Role in Supporting Trust in Scholarly Journals: Current Challenges and Future Solutions

In this post we reflect on the current threats to trust in scholarly journal publishing, and the implications for organizations like Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) that seek to uphold that trust.

  • By Cenyu Shen, Joanna Ball
  • Jun 6, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Can Parents in Academia “Have it All”?

How can academia better accommodate the diverse needs of parents striving to balance their research pursuits with family responsibilities?

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Jun 5, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The American Sunlight Project Wants to Make It More Costly for Bad Actors to Spread Disinformation: How Will They Do That?

How will the American Sunlight Project make it more costly for bad actors to spread disinformation — and what does this mean for scholarly publishing?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jun 3, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Peer Review Week 2024: “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”

We’re delighted to reveal the eagerly awaited theme for this year’s Peer Review Week, Innovation and Technology in Peer Review.

  • By Roohi Ghosh, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke, Maryam Sayab
  • May 29, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Elevating Scholarly Publishing through Collaboration: Insights from Publisherspeak US 2023 Part 2

Part two of a look back at the Publisherspeak meeting — today’s themes: metadata infrastructure and diversity in authorship and editorial processes.

  • By Ravi Venkataramani, Sowmya Mahadevan, Abhaya Ranganathan, Jason De Boer, Louise Russell, Patricia Kershaw, Richard di Santo, David Haber, Randy Townsend
  • Apr 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Elevating Scholarly Publishing through Collaboration: Insights from Publisherspeak US 2023 Part 1

Part one of a look back at the Publisherspeak meeting — today’s themes: author experience (AX) and AI.

  • By Ravi Venkataramani, Sowmya Mahadevan, Abhaya Ranganathan, Jason De Boer, Louise Russell, Patricia Kershaw, Richard di Santo, David Haber, Randy Townsend
  • Apr 25, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 24, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Preprints, Journals and Openness: Disentangling Goals and Incentives

Robert Harington discusses the value of preprints, the importance of peer review, research integrity and openness.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Apr 17, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Putting Research Integrity Checks Where They Belong

Research journals and the peer review process should not be the first line of defense in identifying research integrity issues. In today’s post, Angela Cochran calls for research institutions to take a larger role in validation and integrity checks.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Mar 28, 2024
  • 95 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles?

Journal articles with ChatGPT authored text are being found. How common is this in the literature? And how, or better yet, when, is this problematic text slipping through to publication?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 20, 2024
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Mar 19, 2024
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Niko Pfund

Robert Harington talks to Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 29, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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