In an Age of Chaos, Some Things Remain Constant. Like, Gravity…
In chaotic times, we must look for reliable things, like the joy of dropping stuff off a tall building…
Guest Post — No Data? No Acceptance. How IOP Publishing is Strengthening Open Science
Nicola Davies from IOPP details the publisher’s new data sharing requirements for authors.
SSP Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study Results Available
A sneak peek at the Individual results from the SSP’s Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study provides insight into who has participated and reveals some interesting benefits of working in scholarly communications.
Why Should Publishers Conserve Nature?
What role does/could scholarly publishing play in nature conservation?
Guest Post: Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance
I tried three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article.
Guest Post — Challenges in Academic Publishing Amid War: ISSN Issues in Ukraine Threaten Research Integrity
Recently, a group of Ukrainian researchers uncovered serious violations in the use of ISSN identifiers by journals operating in temporarily occupied territories, revealing systematic misuse of academic infrastructure and promoting narratives hostile to Ukraine.
AI Rights Reservation: Human Readable is Machine Readable — An Interview with Haralambos (“Babis”) Marmanis
“Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language.”
NIH Cuts ICR – Implications for Research Institutions and Scholarly Publishing
What are the implications of last Friday’s NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.
What to Expect and How to Connect at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024
A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research
Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research.
Resetting and Recharging Research Communications in the Sun of Los Angeles: A FORCE11 Conference Report
The FORCE11 conference at UCLA lays the groundwork to continue its efforts to transform research communications and e-scholarship.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 19: An Ear to SSP’s 2024 Annual Meeting
This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast offers a ‘vox pop’ peek into the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting with a recap and on-site interviews with attendees. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science).
Guest Post: Improving Methods Reporting in the Life Sciences
What can we do to encourage and improve methods reporting in scientific articles? A new report summarizes recommendations for editors and publishers alike.
Guest Post — New Directions Seminar: Reverse Roundtables Kept the Post-Lunch Conversations Going!
What are the new directions in scholarly publishing? Check out the unique “reverse roundtable” discussions at SSP’s New Directions seminar!
Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk
Do publishers really understand what tools researchers are using and how they are using them? Can we do more to create better policies based on real use cases and not hypothetical conjecture about what AI might do in the future?