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United2Act Against Paper Mills: Fighting Fraud that Corrupts the Scholarly Record

Fraud is undermining the integrity of the scholarly record. United2Act is striking back at paper mills.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Deborah Kahn
  • Feb 27, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Navigating the Sustainability Landscape: A New STM Roadmap Provides a Guide to Embedding Sustainability in Publishing 

The STM Association has launched an SDG roadmap. It is a list of suggested steps to provide inspiration and pathways to navigate the sustainability initiatives and actions that publishers and societies can undertake.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Aug 15, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Decoupling from Russia

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a sudden and serious decoupling of the West from Russia. Today, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Roger Schonfeld discuss implications for research collaboration, scientific exchange, and scholarly communication.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 2, 2022
  • 24 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Gerald Beasley Interviews Timon Oefelein (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 2 of this pair of posts we turn the tables and Gerald Beasley interviews Timon Oefelein of Springer Nature about how publishers can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Gerald R. Beasley
  • Oct 8, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Mexican Publishers Face Significant Challenges, but They’re Uniquely Equipped to Meet Them

A guest post from Rachel Maund, Director of Marketability, provides an update about publishing, open access and book trade events in Mexico and Latin America.

  • By Rachel Maund
  • Jan 29, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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