A sneak peek at the Individual results from the SSP’s Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study provides insight into who has participated and reveals some interesting benefits of working in scholarly communications.
What can be done to resolve concerns about image integrity in scientific publications?
Image integrity has been a growing issue in scholarly publishing. Todd Carpenter suggests we addreess the problem of image integrity at scale.
Like Tolkien’s “Ents” marched against deforestation, scholars, scientists, and their supporters must awaken to the widespread risks of these authoritarian trends and unite their efforts in resistance.
Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a “subscription-based access strategy,” meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.
Model licenses simplified library licenses in the 2000s. The same approach can streamline licensing scholarly content for AI training today.
A look back, highlighting posts with helpful information on supporting workplace mental wellbeing
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.
“Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language.”
Five scholarly publishing associations partner to launch a new award recognizing innovation and impact in scholarly communications.
What are the implications of last Friday’s NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.
A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions about his organization and his career in scholarly infrastructure
College closures are increasing across the U.S, and the impacts on libraries, publishers, vendors, and library consortia are intensifying.
Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.