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Guest Post: An Interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Mary Miskin offers an interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang, Director of the Scientometrics and Research Assessment Unit at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who manages the Early Warning List and the CAS Journal Ranking.

  • By Mary Miskin
  • Dec 13, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Can Academia Afford a Holiday Hiatus from Publish or Perish?

As we contemplate a pause during the holiday season, we must ask ourselves: Isn’t the researcher’s overall well-being as crucial as the research itself?

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Dec 12, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Food for Thought: What Are We Feeding LLMs, and How Will this Impact Humanity?

Academia has developed an amazing tree of knowledge which is arguably the most important data for Large Language Models to be trained on. Where does the scholarly communication community fit in?

  • By Stuart Leitch
  • Dec 11, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Problem at the Heart of Public Access

The intended beneficiary of public access is “the American public,” and we need so much more than access to the biomedical literature.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Dec 5, 2023
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask The Chefs: The US Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.”

  • By Roy Kaufman, Todd A Carpenter, Ann Michael
  • Dec 4, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Ask the Presidents: Why is it Important for SSP to Support the Mental Health of Our Members?

For today’s post we asked SSP’s Past Presidents to tell us why is it important for SSP to support the mental health of our members, especially around work-related issues. Read on to hear what they have to say

  • By Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • Nov 27, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Jennifer Gibson of Dryad

Today in Kitchen Essentials, Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director of the Dryad data repository.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Nov 22, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Observations from the Charleston Vendor Showcase

Reflecting on the Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase @lisalibrarian share what she did — and didn’t — see.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 21, 2023
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Ask The Chefs: cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing”

We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Angela Cochran
  • Nov 16, 2023
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post: Mind the Gap – Understanding China’s Perspective on Research Integrity and Open Access

Nicko Goncharoff presents an overview of the STM/CUJS China Symposium and offers key takeaways, including China’s increasing concern over APCs and Gold OA costs, divergent views on research integrity, and better routes to cooperation.

  • By Nicko Goncharoff
  • Nov 15, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Approaching Artificial Intelligence and Open Research in Sync: Opportunities and Challenges

Separately, both open research and AI are considered disrupters, causes of disorder in the normal continuance of scholarly publishing. But approaching them in a synchronized way can offer more productivity gains and efficiencies than taking them on individually.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 14, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Community: How are you using  Social Media in 2023? 

Social media is changing — as we all reconsider our approaches and channels, we asked the community to weigh in with their response to the question, “How has your / your organization’s approach to social media changed in the last year?”

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Susan Willner, Anne Stone
  • Nov 9, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Last Call: Submit Your Session Proposals for the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting

As the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting rapidly approaches, Rebecca Benner interviews Tim Lloyd about this year’s theme and what attendees can expect.

  • By Rebecca Benner, Tim Lloyd
  • Nov 8, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of PKP

In our next Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Introducing Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Tips for Publishers from the Center for Workplace Mental Health

The first in a new series of posts, “Mental Health Awareness Mondays”. Today, Emma Jellen APA offers tips for publishers from the Center for Workplace Mental Health.

  • By Randy Townsend, Emma Jellen
  • Nov 6, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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