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Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Government Censorship

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.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 19, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

What to Expect and How to Connect at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024

A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.

  • By Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • Sep 10, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: College Closures and the Implications for Libraries and Vendors

College closures are increasing across the U.S, and the impacts on libraries, publishers, vendors, and library consortia are intensifying.

  • By Michael Rodriguez
  • Sep 5, 2024
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

AI-Enabled Transformation of Information Objects Into Learning Objects

A look at how AI tools support transforming information access into information comprehension.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jul 30, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Wendy Queen of Project MUSE

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Wendy Queen, Director, Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 17, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

What To Do Once the Paper is Retracted: NISO Issues Recommended Practice on the Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern

New NISO guidance on clear consistent display of retraction information will reduce inadvertent reuse of erroneous research.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 16, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Web-scale Institutional Search: How are Vendors Responding to ODI Recommendations?

Providers of library discovery services reflect on the impact and value of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The Case For Not Citing Chatbots As Information Sources (Part II)

Citing chatbots as information sources offer little in terms of promoting smart use of generative AI and could also be damaging.

  • By Leticia Antunes Nogueira, Jan Ove Rein
  • Jun 20, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 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

Towards Conversational Discovery: New Discovery Applications for Scholarly Information in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

How is generative AI moving us towards conversational discovery and what does this mean for publishing and future trends in information discovery?

  • By Hong Zhou, Hiba Bishtawi
  • Jun 4, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — Shipping up to Boston? Plan Some Workers’ Playtime during the SSP Annual Meeting

Heading to Boston for the SSP’s annual meeting? Here’s an insiders’ guide to the city.

  • By Anne Stone, Erin Foley
  • May 17, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Interplay Between Copyright Licensing and Exclusive Rights; AI Edition

In copyright law, the existence of licensing options impacts upon a rights owners exclusive rights.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • May 14, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Gaelle Bequet of ISSN International Centre (ISSN IC)

Today, Alice Meadows talks to Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, for our ongoing Kitchen Essentials series, featuring interviews with leaders of scholarly infrastructure organizations.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 22, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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