Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read (and more!) During 2020, Part 1
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year (and more!). Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.
A World Elsewhere: PLOS’s Community Action Publishing Model
Can community-action publishing prove to be a viable alternative to market-based publishing?
The Curse of Reviewer 89: An Interview with Filestage’s Niklas Dorn
A look at Thieme’s “Select Crowd Review” approach to peer review.
Editorial Boards Benefit from Virtual Meetings
Journal offices are reporting greater participation and engagement in virtual editorial boards meetings; but providing networking opportunities at these meetings for volunteers might outweigh the benefits of virtual. Angela Cochran interviews colleagues on what makes these meetings a success and what we can do better.
Pandemic Post Roundup
Collecting some key posts on scholarly communications during the pandemic, as we enter into a new wave of infection.
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
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast: Episode 5, The Publishing Industry and the Pandemic Part 2
Meredith Adinolfi and Sara Grimme speak with Sarah Tegen and Ann Michael about how early career professionals can continue to focus on career development and growth, particularly during the pandemic.
Guest Post — What We Can Learn from How Academics and the Public View Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Susan Spilka analyzes a series of surveys from Emerald Publishing that asked both academics and the general public about the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion to society.
In Search of Equity and Justice: Reimagining Scholarly Communication
If we are truly committed to a more equitable and resilient system of scholarly communication, we need to look beyond diversity programs and understand how this watershed moment requires us to reexamine everything, including strategy and business models.
Guest Post — Video is here. Time to embrace it.
Violaine Iglesias explains how scholarly publishers can embrace and optimize the use of video in publications.
Are Publishers Learning from Their Mistakes?
Publishers have retracted more than 20 COVID-related papers. Are they learning from their mistakes and fixing process failures?
Parallel Peer Review at Cell Press: An Interview with Deborah Sweet
Cell Press announces an experiment with parallel peer review.
Guest Post — Creative Commons in Court
Are US federal courts enforcing Creative Commons licenses? Yes, but not as copyright holders may hope.
Guest Post — Research Support is an Enterprise Activity
Rebecca Bryant (OCLC) explains why cross-campus social interoperability is needed to adequately support today’s researchers.
The Global Pandemic and Scholarly Societies
Robert Harington asks how scholarly societies are coping as the global coronavirus pandemic continues to cast a shadow, certainly well into 2021 and very likely into 2022 and beyond?