Ask The Chefs: Adapting Core Skills
This month we asked the Chefs: As times change, how have you evolved your core skills to continue to add value to your work and fulfillment to your career?
Guest Post: A Plea for Fairer Sharing of the True Costs of Publication
Mariëlle Prevoo, Ron Aardening, and Ingrid Wijk from the Maastricht University Library suggest a more equitable model for open access publishing.
Guest Post — Everything* You Ever Wanted to Know about Conference Proceedings But Were Afraid to Ask
Alex Birukou from Springer Nature offers an overview of Conference Proceedings publication, and how they straddle the line between journals and books.
Let Authors Choose How to Pay for Peer Review and Publication
Giving authors a choice between submission fees and APCs has numerous benefits
Ask The Chefs: 2019 Lessons Learned
Looking forward to 2020, what did you learn in 2019 that might change your plans or actions going forward? How have you grown?
TL;DR (That is, Too Long; Didn’t Read)
Do I really have to read all of that essay or monograph? Can’t artificial intelligence do the heavy lifting for me?
Guest Post — Attending an International Seminar from the Comfort of your own Boardroom: A Publisher’s Experience with Virtual Meetings
Amber Dilabbio discusses the University of Toronto Press’ experience with virtual attendance at a publishing meeting.
What Do Researchers Want from Publishers? An Interview with Dr Milka Kostic
Former scientist, turned publisher, turned research program director, Milka Kostic is uniquely placed to look at publishing from a researcher and a publisher perspective. In this interview with Alice Meadows, she shares her thoughts on both.
The Second Wave of Preprint Servers: How Can Publishers Keep Afloat?
In this guest post, Rob Johnson and Andrea Chiarelli of Research Consulting discuss the findings of their recent research study into the recent growth of preprint servers and explore how publishers might respond.
Two Competing Visions for Research Data Sharing
New today: In a crowded and confusing landscape for research data preservation and sharing, two fundamentally competing visions are emerging. Which will win?
Ramifications of the Downward Pressure on Pricing
Publishers of subscription and open access scholarly content are facing downward pressures on pricing. Angela Cochran explores some of the hidden costs associated with a professional publishing operation and asks whether some of the tasks currently done by publishers should be absorbed elsewhere.
Breaking News: Annette Thomas Leaves Clarivate
Breaking News Today: Following Clarivate’s public listing and a high level reorganization, Web of Science Group CEO Annette Thomas is departing
Peer Review Week — the Podcast and the Videos!
We’re delighted to end this year’s Peer Review Week celebrations by sharing some great community resources that you can use all year round!
Guest Post — A Perspective from the Peer Review Congress
From the Peer Review Congress, what’s changed and what’s about to change? John Sack conducts an interview with the Executive Director and Co-Director of the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication.
Quality in Peer Review: An Interview with Tracey Brown, Sense about Science
Continuing our celebration of Peer Review Week 2019, today Alice Meadows interviews Tracey Brown, OBE, Director of Sense about Science, which has been involved in Peer Review Week from the start.