Reuse Rights: Disney’s History of Recycling Animation
A historical look at Disney’s reuse of its own content.
Guest Post — The Words We Live By: Our Ideas and Values as the Catalyst for Action
Dawit Tegbaru offers ideas on how the scholarly communications community can take action to address inequity.
Guest Post — Towards Accessible Conferences: A Conversation
Following our conversation about Neurodiversity in December, Publishing Enabled return with a discussion about how to make academic conferences more accessible to people with disabilities.
Guest Post — Lessons Learned: A Year with GetFTR
Ralph Youngen and Todd Toler look back on what’s been learned over the course of the first year of implementing GetFTR, a solution to enable faster access for researchers to the published journal articles.
The Super Bowl Ad We Really Wanted to See
Stephen Colbert offers a Super Bowl advertisement for a local independent bookstore.
The Cell Press Inclusion and Diversity Statement — An Interview with Deborah Sweet
Deborah Sweet of Cell Press discusses their recently introduced Inclusion and Diversity Statement in this interview with Alice Meadows
Ask The Chefs: New Year’s Resolutions
Come read about the Chefs professional New Year’s Resolutions and tell us about yours! How can we be our best self in 2021? How might we contribute to the advancement of our colleagues, our organizations, and even our industry?
Guest Post — Citing Software in Scholarly Publishing to Improve Reproducibility, Reuse, and Credit
Daniel Katz and Hollydawn Murray present the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s guidelines for citing the software used in research publications.
Truth and Lies
How to address lies in the political life of a democracy? Education, information literacy, gatekeeping, and dialogue are not enough. Lisa Hinchliffe and Roger Schonfeld examine the issue.
Pandemic Perspectives: Volunteer Projects Continue Progress
2020 looked like a year where volunteer-driven projects were likely to be put on hold. The good news is that so many continued to thrive and progress, despite the pandemic.
Wiley Acquires Hindawi: An Interview with Judy Verses and Liz Ferguson
Last week Wiley acquired Hindawi for $298M or a multiple of 7.45 based on 2020 Hindawi revenue. Hear why and what comes next from Wiley’s EVP of Research, Judy Verses, and VP of Open Research, Liz Ferguson.
Can Publishers Maintain Control of the Scholarly Record?
The journal brand has proven to be the great intangible asset of the scholarly publisher. Can publishers extend the reach and value of journal brands by supporting research materials beyond the version of record?
Pandemic Perspectives: Updating Talking About — and Maybe Even Selling — Books in a Pandemic
What have we learned over the course of the COVID pandemic? Our authors revisit earlier posts with updates, now that we have a longer view. First, Karin Wulf revisits her post on selling books in a pandemic.
Pandemic Post Roundup
Collecting some key posts on scholarly communications during the pandemic, as we enter into a new wave of infection.
The Role of Information in UN Sustainability Goals: Highlights from the 2020 ASIS&T Meeting
Information scholars address UN sustainability goals during virtual 2020 ASIS&T conference