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Blogs selected for Week Mar 19 to Mar 25, 2018

1. Openness and The Two Cultures What will happen to social research on aging (gerontology), if funding and openness is increasingly sidelined. Is this in fact a path to a deepening divide of the “two cultures”? In his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Robert Harington addresses openness, and the widening divisions in the “Two […]

Blogs selected for Week Mar 12 to Mar 18, 2018

1. Research Services: A New Approach It is increasingly clear that a truly integrated approach to research services management is needed to ensure data coherency, enhance visibility and increase compliance. Adi Alter and Eddie Neuwirth, in their post in the Ex Libris Blog, explores the challenges involved in research management and possible solutions. The blog […]

Blogs selected for Week Mar 5 to Mar 11, 2018

1. A Curious Blindness Among Peer Review Initiatives The world of scholarly communications is awash with innovation around peer review. There is, however, a worrying thread running through many of these initiatives. The common refrain is that academics should take back control of peer review, which carries the heavy implication that journal staff and publishers […]

Blogs selected for Week February 26 to Mar 4, 2018

1. Is it time to nationalise academic publishers? After decades of free-market ideological dominance on both sides of the Atlantic, nationalisation (or at least anti-monopoly state intervention) is back on the agenda. With state intervention back in vogue, and publishers’ profit margins still sky-high, journals could be the next monopoly to come under scrutiny, discusses […]

Blogs selected for Week February 19 to February 25, 2018

1. Fixing Instead of Breaking, Part Three – Blockchain, RA21, Privacy, and Trust We continue to battle the tidal wave of data with a bucket brigade of individual privacy settings. Maybe it’s time to pause and consider a state-level solution, ala Estonia, notes Kent Anderson, in his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog. The blog […]

Blogs selected for Week February 12 to February 18, 2018

1. Getting Started with Science Communication Communicating your science with different audiences is a vital part of academic research. However, science communication is a vast landscape and knowing where to start and how to be effective can be quite daunting. Sam Illingworth, in his guest post in the Altmetric Blog, discusses Top 5 Science Communication […]

Blogs selected for Week February 5 to February 11, 2018

1. How best to fund knowledgebases – an author and reviewer in conversation A recent Research Article published by Chiara Gabella explored how best to fund knowledgebases, which are relied on by many life scientists as highly accurate and reliable sources of scientific information. This post in the F1000Research Blog by Shane Canning is based […]

Blogs selected for Week January 29 to February 4, 2018

1. Crossref: How Stakeholders Across the Publishing Industry Collaborate Since its founding in 2000, Crossref has been a shining example of how publishers – and other stakeholders across the publishing industry – can come together to collaborate around metadata. This post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog by Robert Harington is based on a conversation with […]

Blogs selected for Week January 22 to January 28, 2018

1. Tautology, antithesis, rallying cry, or business model? “Open science” is open to interpretation The term “open science” is often deployed in the scholarly discourse without much thought about its meaning and use. In their post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, Benedikt Fecher and Tony Ross-Hellauer unpack the term and find it […]

Blogs selected for Week January 15 to January 21, 2018

1. Countering the Über-Brands: The Case for the Megajournal Many column inches have been expended on the megajournal and its successes and (perhaps more often), failures. Alison Mudditt, in her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, discusses how might megajournals support the very real need for action to improve the transparency, reproducibility and efficiency of […]