Scholarly Communications Meets your Christmas Cracker
It’s been “the year of generative AI”, so Charlie Rapple asked ChatGPT to write some cracker-standard Christmas jokes with a scholarly communications theme.
Guest Post — Scholarly Social: Findings from the SSP Social Media Survey
Results from the SSP survey on the changing nature of social media use by publishers, research societies, libraries, vendors, and others in our community.
Library Licensing Strategies
Libraries are accelerating engagement with transformative and pure publish agreements, balancing contract-based publishing support with an APC fund, and investing in the scholarly communications ecosystem.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Chris Shillum of ORCID
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Alice Meadows asks Chris Shillum, Executive DIrector of ORCID, to share his thoughts about his career in research infrastructure
Guest Post: An Interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mary Miskin offers an interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang, Director of the Scientometrics and Research Assessment Unit at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who manages the Early Warning List and the CAS Journal Ranking.
Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder
Noted journalist and scholarly communication observer Richard Poynder explains why he has given up on the open access movement.
The Problem at the Heart of Public Access
The intended beneficiary of public access is “the American public,” and we need so much more than access to the biomedical literature.
Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 1
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 1 today.
Observations from the Charleston Vendor Showcase
Reflecting on the Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase @lisalibrarian share what she did — and didn’t — see.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Being Your Whole Self: Disability and Neurodivergency
With all the intricacies of intersectionality – gender, ethnicity, disability, neurodivergency, mental health, and other identifiers – how can we be true to our whole self while also being authentic as our work-selves in our day-to-day roles?
The Necessity of Book Reviews
Is the scholar-to-scholar exchange found in book reviews still of value to the community? There is concern over their decline.
Ask The Chefs: cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing”
We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.
Guest Post: Mind the Gap – Understanding China’s Perspective on Research Integrity and Open Access
Nicko Goncharoff presents an overview of the STM/CUJS China Symposium and offers key takeaways, including China’s increasing concern over APCs and Gold OA costs, divergent views on research integrity, and better routes to cooperation.
Approaching Artificial Intelligence and Open Research in Sync: Opportunities and Challenges
Separately, both open research and AI are considered disrupters, causes of disorder in the normal continuance of scholarly publishing. But approaching them in a synchronized way can offer more productivity gains and efficiencies than taking them on individually.
The Serious Reader: Scholarship and Annotated Editions
There is a particular reading experience associated with annotated editions of classic literature. How do publishers enhance that experience?