Gates Policy Refresh: What Would Success Look Like?
While the BMGF may be all-in, from an industry perspective the Gates Policy Refresh represents a small but potentially valuable experiment.
How Does Mandated Code-sharing Change Peer Review? An Interview with PLOS Computational Biology
In today’s Peer Review Week guest post, Joe Pold of PLOS interviews the senior editorial team of PLOS Computational Biology about their experience of mandating code sharing for the journal, and its impact on peer review
Having the Courage to Explain Research in Plain Language
The Curse of Knowledge is when we assume everyone else understands what we’re talking about, when they don’t. Good communication happens when we have the courage to make it simple.
Guest Post — Being Research Data
“Researchers have only so many hours in a day; if they can spend one less hour on a research article because we have implemented improved workflows and better technology, that’s one more hour they can spend on research to try to save my life, and the lives of all ALS patients.” In today’s post, Bruce Rosenblum shares his experience as a clinical trial participant and how that contributed to scholarly publications.
Guest Post — An Inspiring and Sustainable Future for Scholarly Events
Paul Killoran, CEO of Ex Ordo reflects on the future of scholarly events and makes a case for innovation.
Guest Post — ChatGPT: Applications in Scholarly Publishing
Craig Griffin looks at potential applications we might see for tools like ChatGPT in scholarly publishing. Also included — a research results haiku.
Friday Physics: You Spin Me Right Round, Baby Right Round
Why doesn’t a ball fly off of a spinning turntable?
Innovation at eLife: An Interview with Damian Pattinson
eLife’s recent announcement that it will reinvent itself as a “service that reviews preprints” has generated much discussion over recent weeks. But what are the primary drivers and goals, and what might we all learn from this bold experiment?
Guest Post – Wikipedia’s Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers
Rachel Helps, the Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU libraries discusses the intersection of scholarly journals and Wikipedia.
Desperately Seeking (Statistical) Significance
Twitter does not increase citations, a reanalysis of author data shows. Did the authors p-hack their data?
Accelerating Open Research: A Multi-stakeholder Discussion
Robert Harington reports on the recent SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics, who met to discuss how collaboration among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research.
The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 1)
In this first of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.
Restoring the Version of Record
The restoration of a glorious portrait raises questions about the scholarly Version of Record.
Iterative Development, User-centered Design, and the Fear of Getting it Wrong in Publishing
User-centered design provides a model for improving services, but is the history of print holding publishers back?
Guest Post — Does Open Access Cannibalize Print Sales for Monographs?
John Sherer describes a new research project which will look at the impact of open access on print monograph sales, particularly in light of the free access provided early in the COVID-19 pandemic.