Explaining the Rights Retention Strategy
Unpacking each word — rights, retention, and strategy — enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.
Sci-Hub Citation Study Confuses Causes With Effects
Do Sci-Hub downloads cause more citations, or are high impact papers simply downloaded more often?
The Cell Press Inclusion and Diversity Statement — An Interview with Deborah Sweet
Deborah Sweet of Cell Press discusses their recently introduced Inclusion and Diversity Statement in this interview with Alice Meadows
Revisiting Nicholson Baker and Retention of Print
Scholars are anxious about what materials will be preserved and made accessible. Whose priorities come first?
Open Access and Global South: It is More Than a Matter of Inclusion
Haseeb Irfanullah discusses how we can overcome the barriers blocking global participation in open access publishing.
Publishers Still Don’t Prioritize Researchers
The digital services provided by scholarly publishers and academic libraries still do not meet researchers’ needs. Roger Schonfeld notes that doing so would require far more profound change, not just at the level of user experience but in terms of rethinking existing businesses and organizational models.
Guest Post — Evaluating Publishers as Partners with Libraries and Higher Education
Rachel Caldwell presents PAPPI, a proposed matrix for determining how well a publisher or vendor aligns with the mission of libraries.
Can Publishers Maintain Control of the Scholarly Record?
The journal brand has proven to be the great intangible asset of the scholarly publisher. Can publishers extend the reach and value of journal brands by supporting research materials beyond the version of record?
Guest Post — Publishing in a Pandemic: 5 Factors Limiting Scholarly Research
Survey results on COVID pandemic impacts on researchers and educators across the disciplines, and implications for scholarly publishers.
The State of Not-for-Profit Publishing Today
In periods of disruption, commercial publishers have traditionally found opportunities to make capital investments that ultimately strengthen their relative position in the market — opportunities that are not necessarily available to their not-for-profit counterparts. With this in mind, we offer up the beginnings of an analysis of the state of not-for-profit publishing today.
Towards a Shared Peer-Review Taxonomy: An interview with Joris van Rossum and Lois Jones
Phill Jones interviews Joris van Rossum and Lois Jones about the STM working group on peer review taxonomy. What is it for and how will it work?
Guest Post – Scientific output in the year of COVID — Please See Update
Christos Petrou looks at the impact on publication volumes, and what that might mean for next year.
Guest Post — What Does it Take to Move a Highly Successful Face-to-face Workshop into the Online World?
Mark Thomas discusses lessons learned in moving ALPSP’s face-to-face workshops into an online offerings.
The Role of Information in UN Sustainability Goals: Highlights from the 2020 ASIS&T Meeting
Information scholars address UN sustainability goals during virtual 2020 ASIS&T conference
Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research? – Part 2
In support of Open Access Week, we asked our community how we can achieve equitable participation in Open Research. Today, part 2. Come share your views!