What to Do with the AI Elephant in the Room: A NISO Plus Conference Report
A report from the fifth annual NISO Plus Conference, focusing on AI, metadata, and interoperability for scholarly communications.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Alicia Wise of CLOCKSS
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Alicia Wise of CLOCKSS, the digital archive for academic publishers and research libraries.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico, the community-supported preservation archive.
Guest Post — The Perplexing Puzzle of the Top 2% Scientists List
A list of the most influential scientists suffers from anomalies and inaccuracies.
Guest Post — How Identifiers Can Help Publishers Do a Better Job of Curating the Scholarly Record
As scholarly journal editorial practices are the subject of growing scrutiny, publishers should explore “quality signals” systemically derived from researcher identity and metadata associated with identity.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn of DataCite
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn, respectively Executive Director and Director of Community Engagement for DataCite.
Guest Post — Improving Research Assessment One Tool at a Time: An Interview with Euan Adie of Overton
How can we measure the impact of research papers on influencing public policy? An interview with Euan Adie of Overton.
Unveiling Perspectives on Peer Review and Research Integrity: Survey Insights
How can we optimize the peer review process, and what role should AI play?
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Sami Benchekroun of Morressier
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Sami Benchekroun, CEO of Morressier, which provides publishers with workflows that ensure research integrity.
Who Would Have Thought That We Needed Another Listserv?
Open Café, a new listserv dedicated to the free and open discussion of open scholarship has been met with enthusiasm by the scholarly communication community.
Protecting Commercial AI Rights is Harder than You Think — EU Edition
Legislation often lags technological advances. The EU’s Digital Single Market Copyright Directive leaves many open questions regarding AI text- and data-mining.
How We Work, AI, and Human Engagement
In this post Robert Harington looks to Hannah Arendt, and her 1958 book, The Human Condition for help in understanding the nature of how we work, asking how an AI world may affect the nature of our work.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Maria Gould of ROR
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Alice Meadows interviewed Director Maria Gould for today’s Kitchen Essentials post.
The Second Digital Transformation
The scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. Today, Ithaka S+R reviews this strategic landscape as part of a broader analysis of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.
Reading: It Can’t Be About the Numbers
How many books do we read in a year? Wouldn’t a better question be how well, how thoughtfully we had engaged with long-form content?