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Blogs selected for Week September 23, 2019 to September 29, 2019

1. What’s in a name? How false author affiliations are damaging academic research When reading a research paper, can you be certain that the institution the author claims to be affiliated with is actually the institution that was responsible for supporting the research? In this post Vivienne C. Bachelet in the LSE Impact Blog presents […]

Blogs selected for Week September 16, 2019 to September 22, 2019

1. How to Be A Good Peer Reviewer A major factor in determining quality in the peer review process are the reviewers. Without peers providing high-quality reviews, the value-add of the peer review process declines. the streamlined process of peer review is complicated when reviewers with good intentions do bad things. A reviewer who does […]

Blogs selected for Week September 9, 2019 to September 15, 2019

1. Ask The Chefs: Peer Review Quality Quality means different things to different people. How do you think different stakeholders would define quality in peer review? This week is Peer Review Week 2019. Asking the Chefs a peer review question has become a tradition. This year the theme is quality in peer review. In this […]

Blogs selected for Week September 2, 2019 to September 8, 2019

1. Guest Post: Cost per Use Overvalues Journal Subscriptions Digital delivery of scholarly publications has enabled far more robust tracking of usage, with the COUNTER Project providing and periodically updating the defining standard for usage measurement. As a result, usage has become a critical metric for establishing the value of a given journal or content […]

Blogs selected for Week August 19, 2019 to August 25, 2019

1. Where is the Publication Puck Going? Making Research Available “Upstream” of Publication Could scholarly publishers’ skills and capacity be re-positioned to serve researchers at earlier stages in the research process, “upstream” of publication? In this post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Charlie Rapple shares findings from a survey of the communications needs of almost […]

Blogs selected for Week August 12, 2019 to August 18, 2019

1. Guest Post — Equity is Possible: Forging Paths toward Equity and Anti-Racism in Scholarly Publishing Over the past few years, there has been a growing awareness about what it means to have an industry that is, by one estimate, over 90% white. Publishing professionals are asking important questions, such as, “what types of systems […]

Blogs selected for Week August 5, 2019 to August 11, 2019

1. Guest Post — The Future of FAIR, as Told by the Past Where will FAIR end up? What will be its value to research data management stakeholders? To see into the future, Brian Lavoie of OCLC, in his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, suggests we start by looking into the past: in particular, […]

Blogs selected for Week July 29, 2019 to August 4, 2019

1. Building for the long term: Why business strategies are needed for community-owned infrastructure Community-led projects have taken on an increased urgency after the recent spate of acquisitions of essential infrastructure by commercial interests. The goals here are both laudable and achievable, but when we think about scholarly communications, we must take the long-term view. […]

Blogs selected for Week July 22, 2019 to July 28, 2019

1. Guest Post: Plan S Version 2 and the Cost of Quality Much has been said about Plan S, both encouraging and critical. The relative preponderance of criticism – notably by academics, who ought to be key beneficiaries – has been frustrating to the plan’s backers, who see it as a long-overdue concerted effort to […]

Blogs selected for Week July 15, 2019 to July 21, 2019

1. Guest Post — Transitioning to a new peer review system: from scary to successful The peer review process is the foundation of many journals, upon which their reputation is built. A great deal of thought and work goes into ensuring a good experience for authors, reviewers, and editors, and the idea of ‘starting over’ […]