Two Competing Visions for Research Data Sharing
New today: In a crowded and confusing landscape for research data preservation and sharing, two fundamentally competing visions are emerging. Which will win?
Guest Post — A Look at the User-Centric Future of Academic Research Software — And Why It Matters, Part 2: Implications
Part 2 — how will the rapidly evolving world of researcher software impact scholarly communications?
So What’s the DEAL?: An Interview with Springer Nature’s Dagmar Laging
An interview with Springer Nature’s Dagmar Laging about the emerging transformative open access agreement with Germany’s Projekt DEAL.
Fighting Citation Pollution — The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited
Scholarly publishing needs a scalable, easily adopted, and industry-wide approach to the problem of author manuscripts including citations to articles in fraudulent journals.
Breaking News: Annette Thomas Leaves Clarivate
Breaking News Today: Following Clarivate’s public listing and a high level reorganization, Web of Science Group CEO Annette Thomas is departing
Quality in Peer Review: An Interview with Tracey Brown, Sense about Science
Continuing our celebration of Peer Review Week 2019, today Alice Meadows interviews Tracey Brown, OBE, Director of Sense about Science, which has been involved in Peer Review Week from the start.
Ask The Chefs: Peer Review Quality
Quality means different things to different people. How do you think different stakeholders would define quality in peer review?
Where is the Publication Puck Going? Making Research Available “Upstream” of Publication
Could scholarly publishers’ skills and capacity be re-positioned to serve researchers at earlier stages in the research process, “upstream” of publication? Charlie Rapple shares findings from a survey of the communications needs of almost 10,000 researchers.
The Value of Redundancy in Research, or, In Research, Redundancy Has Value
The systems of research and scholarly communication contain a lot of redundancy. This is a good thing.
Two New Initiatives at eLife To Start the Eisen Era
Michael Eisen’s bold visions for eLife emerge on Twitter. We consider two of his proposed initiatives.
Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions
Proposing a model for thinking about the interactions of rigor, cogency, accessibility, significance, openness, and impact in scholarly quality.
Why Should Researchers Volunteer for Global Evidence Gathering Processes?
What could motivate researchers to get involved in global evidence-informed policy influencing processes such as the one led by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – and how can we ensure diversity of researchers and research sources?
The Robots are Writing: Will Machine-Generated Books Accelerate our Consumption of Scholarly Literature?
Does Springer Nature’s first machine-generated book usher in a new era of authorship? Or readership? Are the robots writing?
Knowledge Futures Group: An interview with Amy Brand, Director of the MIT Press
Robert Harington talks to Amy Brand, Director of MIT Press, to discover more about the recent launch of the Knowledge Futures Group.
Leaving Behind the Outrage Economy
Some thoughts about using social media in a more intentional and humane manner, and video presentation by Dan Harvey on why outrage and anger are so prevalent (and valuable) online.