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The Effect of a Strong Data Archiving Policy on Journal Submissions (Part II)

We revisit our analysis of how adopting a strict data policy affects journal submissions and find that the effects depend a lot on Impact Factor trends

  • By Tim Vines, Arianne Albert
  • Aug 26, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Investing in Libraries is the Right Thing for Administrators To Do, Even if There Are Fewer Resources Overall

Library budgets shrank for 2 decades. They can’t shrink any further because of COVID-19. In fact, they should grow despite contracting college budgets

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Aug 25, 2020
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Driving Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications: The Power of an Active ERG

A look at how Employee Resource Groups can create positive change in the workplace.

  • By Laura Martin, Vikki Davies, Leyla Sokullu
  • Aug 24, 2020
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Revisiting: Cooperstown, Ground Zero for Altmetrics

A look back at 2014’s discussion of measuring the immeasurable.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Aug 20, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Revisiting: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Our Story: Hamiltunes and the Burden of Founding Histories

Looking back at a 2015 post on the musical “Hamilton”, which raises questions about history and historical practice that reflects what scholars are and aren’t doing.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 18, 2020
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Revisiting: The Problem(s) With Credit for Peer Review

Revisiting a 2015 post to ask whether we are any closer to offering researchers credit for non-research activities?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 17, 2020
  • 28 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Spread of Folklore, the Impact of Mass Media, and What Happens After Batman Smells

Regional variance in childhood jokes offers a fun look at the impact of mass media on culture.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 14, 2020
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Changing Jobs During a Pandemic

Changing jobs can be stressful in normal times, but during a global pandemic and with everyone working from home, special considerations must be made. In this post, Angela Cochran and Jennifer Regala share their recent experiences.

  • By Angela Cochran, Jennifer Regala
  • Aug 13, 2020
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – MDPI’s Remarkable Growth

Despite controversies, MDPI has flourished and are now the 5th largest scholarly publisher in the market. Christos Petrou offers an analysis of their enormous levels of growth.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Aug 10, 2020
  • 34 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Guest Post — An Antiracist Framework for Scholarly Publishing

Introducing The Antiracism Toolkit for Allies, an antiracism resource for the scholarly publishing community.

  • By Niccole Coggins, Jocelyn Dawson, Melanie Dolechek, Gisela Concepción Fosado
  • Aug 6, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask The Chefs: Do’s And Don’ts Of Data

Is the value of data in decision making all hype? How can we leverage data to server our mission, customers, and our own operational effectiveness?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 5, 2020
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back — The Pandemic’s Impact on Open Access Progress

The COVID pandemic may leave us stuck between a growing consensus that open science is the superior way to drive progress and an inability to invest what may be needed to make it happen.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 4, 2020
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Tweeting-Citations Authors Speak, Finally

We stand by our data. We just won’t share it or believe that you replicated our study.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Aug 3, 2020
  • 27 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Good vs. Evil? Finding the Right Mix of For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Services

Today, Joe and Roger analyze the variety of firms to which the academy can outsource scholarly communication and adjacent priorities: consortia, societies, and commercial enterprises.

  • By Joseph Esposito, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 21, 2020
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

cOAlition S’s Rights Confiscation Strategy Continues

By calling its new policy a “Rights Retention Strategy,” cOAlition S is engaging in doublespeak. This strategy actually does exactly the opposite of what it claims.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 20, 2020
  • 65 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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