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Guest Post — Street Books: A Non-profit Mobile Library Serving the Houseless Residents of Portland

An interview with Laura Moulton, founder of Street Books, a mobile library which serves Portland’s houseless community. SSP annual meeting attendees are invited to bring paperback books to donate to Street Books.

  • By Madelyn Stone
  • May 5, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

What Is the Shared Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication?

At Ithaka S+R, we are examining the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication. Today, we provide background about the project and announce the publication this week of a landscape review on shared infrastructure.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Oya Y. Rieger
  • Apr 26, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Call for Carbon Neutrality in Scholarly Publishing

The ISMTE DEI Advisory Committee calls on the field of scholarly publishing to set goals and actively work to achieve operational carbon and climate neutrality.

  • By Shein Ei Cho, Michelle Fleetwood, Kathleen Kelly Halverson, Sarah McCormack, Mark Paglia, Dianndra Roberts
  • Apr 24, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Drawing Lines to Cross Them: How Publishers are Moving Beyond Established Norms

Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Apr 20, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Controlled Digital Lending Takes a Blow in Court

A Federal judge’s ruling offered a stern rebuke of the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library and its controlled digital lending service, providing a significant victory for the four publishers that had filed suit.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 29, 2023
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Internet Archive Loses on Controlled Digital Lending

On Friday, the Internet Archive lost its “controlled digital lending” case on summary judgment. Reactions today from our Chefs Rick Anderson, Joseph Esposito, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roy Kaufman, Roger C. Schonfeld, and Karin Wulf.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Joseph Esposito, Roy Kaufman
  • Mar 28, 2023
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Ziyad Marar

Robert Harington talks to Ziyad Marar, President of Global Publishing at SAGE, and author of “Happiness Paradox” and “Intimacy”, and most recently “Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood”

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 27, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Ivies (Plus) Have Concerns about the Nelson OSTP Memo

Is the OA movement painting itself into a corner with concerns about new OA rules and regulations?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 16, 2023
  • 54 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Recommendations for Digital Accessibility Best Practices

Part three of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Nicola Poser, Kasia Repeta, Damita Snow
  • Mar 3, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Advancing Accessibility in Scholarly Publishing: Building Support

Part two of a three-part series aims to discuss the topic of advancing accessibility within scholarly communication with the focus of digital accessibility.

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Jocelyn Dawson, Amanda Rogers, Nicola Poser
  • Mar 2, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post: Start at the Beginning – The Need for ‘Research Practice’ Training

Danny Kingsley suggests that research integrity begins with the training researchers receive at university. Achieving Open Research and increasing reproducibility requires systematic research training that focuses specifically on research practice.

  • By Danny Kingsley
  • Feb 23, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Will Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Consolidate?

Much of the scholarly publishing sector has already experienced a flight to scale. Today, Roger Schonfeld asks: Is a major consolidation among humanities and social sciences publishers coming next?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 22, 2023
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Judy Verses

Robert Harington talks to Judy Verses, President Academic and Government Markets, Elsevier, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 21, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Entering a New Age of Digital Publishing: Dispatch from Digital Book World 2023

John Warren and his students (MPS in Publishing, George Washington University) share perspectives on attending Digital Book World 2023 and the trends and highlights relevant for scholarly publishers.

  • By John W. Warren, Tina Donnelly, Joshua Luke Johnson, Maria Sviridova Chandis
  • Feb 15, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Enabling Trustable, Transparent, and Efficient Submission and Review in an Era of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation in submission and peer review offers improvements for publications and a better experience for researchers and journal staff.

  • By Hong Zhou, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Jan 31, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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