Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read (and more!) During 2021, Part 2
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year (and more!). Today we offer Part 2 of our suggestions.
Building the Social and Technical Infrastructures to Transform Research Data Sharing One Plenary at a Time
Twice a year, members of the Research Data Alliance come together for a plenary meeting that brings together active working groups, interest groups, and communities of practice. Phill Jones virtually attended the 18th plenary from the comfort and (COVID) safety of his home office. These are some of his observations about research infrastructure, data standards and persistent identifiers.
Guest Post — Seeking Feedback on a Model Digital Preservation Policy, a Project of the NASIG Digital Preservation Committee
A look at the NASIG Digital Preservation Policy and a request for comments.
Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
Guest Post — Five Things You Need to Know about UKRI’s New Open Access Policy
Victoria Ficarra and Rob Johnson offer insights into the new UKRI open access policy.
Is Scientific Communication Fit for Purpose?
Roger Schonfeld argues that openness and politicization together have enabled public trust in science to erode. And science is insufficiently trustworthy. The scholarly communication sector must not ignore this situation.
Revisiting: A 2008 Look at Open Access
A look back at Joe Esposito’s 2008 essay on Open Access — what has come to pass and what has changed since then?
Actions on Retractions: An Interview with Jodi Schneider
In today’s post, Alice Meadows interviews Jodi Schneider of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign about the work she’s leading to reduce the inadvertent spread of retracted research.
Guest Post – Transforming the Transformative Agreement
Brigitte Shull from Cambridge University Press looks at the lessons learned so far from transformative agreements and how they continue to evolve.
Celebrating 25 Years of Preserving the Web
Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.
Revisiting: How Traditional Publishing Works
Revisiting a 2018 primer on the business side of publishing. The defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.
Book Review — Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
In 2014, Google created a disruption for both libraries (and publishers) with its digitization activities. Where do things stand now? What’s needed to move forward?
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.
Where Does Enhancement End and Citation Begin?
As more publishers semantically enrich documents, Todd Carpenter considers whether links are the same as citations
Wiley Acquires Editorial Services Group
Today Wiley announced its purchase of J&J Editorial. Angela Cochran explores what this means for J&J customers not in the Wiley universe.