Thoreau and the Office Cubicle
Fretting over work even as you head out on vacation? A new book on Henry David Thoreau may cause you to rethink employment priorities.
Guest Post — Academia’s Versatility Demand: Examining the Pressure on Researchers to Master Diverse Skills
What are the burdens researchers face? And what can be done to lighten the load and make the academic environment more diverse, equitable, inclusive, safe, and welcoming?
Reading the Movie
Looking for a good summer read? Those with a love for good mysteries and classic films have a treat in store!
Guest Post — Ghost-writing Peer Reviews Should Be a Thing of the Past
Policies that formally give peer reviewers the option to officially invite a colleague to collaborate with them improve integrity, transparency, and offers a chance to give fair credit where it is due.
The Intelligence Revolution: What’s Happening and What’s to Come in Generative AI
An update on how generative AI has progressed and how it has been applied to research publishing processes since ChatGPT was released, looking at business, application, technology, and ethical aspects of generative AI.
Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Hong Zhou
Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Hong Zhou.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 14: Open Access Update- A Run-Down of the OSTP Nelson Memo with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe provides a current refresh on the open access (OA) funding landscape, and more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo.
Guest Post — Peer Review Week 2023 to Focus on Peer Review and the Future of Publishing
Peer Review Week is an annual global event exploring and celebrating the essential role of peer review. This year’s Peer Review Week theme is “Peer Review and the Future of Publishing.”
Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?
The current uproar over artificial intelligence does not show us what the future of AI will look like, but rather how a human population falls into predictable patterns as it contemplates any new development: we are observing not AI but ourselves observing AI.
Preparing Editors for Emerging Challenges
Haseeb Irfanullah discusses how Communities of Practice can improve scholarly communications by capitalizing on our collective experiences.
Hypnotic Pencil Manufacturing
It’s Friday. Time to zone out with a film of pencils being manufactured in Japan.
Ask the Community: What Did SSP 2023 Mean to You?
In the last of this series of posts about this year’s Annual Meeting, SSP’s Marketing and Communications Committee asked members of our community what the conference meant to them.
The ORCID US Consortium at Five: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and Why?
The ORCID US consortium, managed by Lyrasis, is five years old in 2023 – hear about their progress so far and plans for the future in Alice Meadows’ interview with their PID Program Leader, Sheila Raybun
Ask the Fellows: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting
We ask the 2023 SSP Fellows: “What was the highlight of attending SSP 2023 for you?”
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.