Guest Post — The Economics of Trust in Peer Review
Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Dawn Durante of the University of Texas Press, looking at trust in peer review from the perspective of economics.
Guest Post — Risks from Self-Referential Peer Review: An Interview with Jeffrey Unerman
Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Bahar Mehmani of Elsevier, who interviewed Professor Jeffrey Unerman about his work on the risks of self-referential peer review.
Trust as an Ethic and a Practice in Peer Review
Chefs Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf tackle Peer Review Week 2020’s theme of Trust in Peer Review with this post on trust as both an ethic and a practice
Gaps in Academic Communication
Tao Tao looks at some surprising communication gaps in scholarly communication that hamper progress but also provide market opportunities.
C4DISC Is Officially Launched!
Today sees the official launch of C4DISC, the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications. Learn more about the organization and how you can get involved in this post by Alice Meadows.
Guest Post — SME Market: The Billion Dollar Leak
William Park on the potential for publishers from the untapped $1-2 billion opportunity within the small to medium sized enterprises (SME) market.
Professor, can you take us through your theory in layman’s terms? … No.
Armstrong & Miller on the challenges of getting academics to communicate work in simple terms. Or perhaps the challenges of people expecting you to be able to communicate something complicated in simple terms.
IOP Moves to Universal Double-blind Peer Review: An Interview with Kim Eggleton
Rick Anderson interviews Kim Eggleton of IOP about the publisher’s recently announced move to 100% double-blind peer review.
Articles Are the Fundamental Unit of Data Sharing
The FAIR principles answer the ‘How’ question for sharing research data, but we also need consensus on the ‘What’ question.
Guest Post — What are Academic Book Publishers for? Part 2
What have academic book publishers been for? And what might they be for, in the future? Part 2
Guest Post — What are Academic Book Publishers for? Part 1
What have academic book publishers been for? And what might they be for, in the future?
Guest Post — Assessing User Perceptions of an Open Access Subvention Fund
The results of a study on author perceptions of funding open access articles through a library subvention fund at Virginia Tech are analyzed.
Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next?
How can collective action models to support open access, like Subscribe to Open, be applied to academic publishing? An interview with Raym Crow.
The Effect of a Strong Data Archiving Policy on Journal Submissions (Part II)
We revisit our analysis of how adopting a strict data policy affects journal submissions and find that the effects depend a lot on Impact Factor trends
Revisiting: Cooperstown, Ground Zero for Altmetrics
A look back at 2014’s discussion of measuring the immeasurable.