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Blogs selected for Week July 8, 2019 to July 14, 2019

1. Guest Post — Building Pipes and Fixing Leaks: Demystifying and Decoding Scholarly Information Discovery & Interchange Information discovery and access is often a source of frustration for scholarly information stakeholders. Feeling fed up with the many stumbling blocks in web-scale discovery service tools, some are chasing “new” discovery solutions or super continents of scholarly […]

Blogs selected for Week July 1, 2019 to July 7, 2019

1. Why India is striking back against predatory journals According to 2015 estimates, more than 8,000 predatory journals churn out more than 400,000 items a year, and India — which has also seen a spurt in high-quality scientific publications — contributes more than one-third of the articles in predatory publications. Last month, India launched its […]

Blogs selected for Week June 24, 2019 to June 30, 2019

1. What is the Blockchain Really, and Should You Care? A Guide for the Perplexed Scholarly Publishing Citizen. At the recent Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting, the matter of the thing that begins with a B that nobody likes to talk about these days, came up, Blockchain, notes by David Smith in his […]

Blogs selected for Week June 17, 2019 to June 23, 2019

1. Scientific Research Shouldn’t Sit behind a Paywall Most of the scientific research conducted in the U.S. and abroad is supported by federal government funds — that is to say, by taxpayer dollars. Yet much of the information that results from such funding is not publicly available outside of research institutions that can afford expensive […]

Blogs selected for Week June 10, 2019 to June 16, 2019

1. Guest Post — Open Research in Practice: Moving from Why to How? Open Research practices and outputs face a number of tensions between initial intentions and unforeseen consequences. Our questions about Open Research are also changing — from “why” to “how” — amidst growing awareness that the required skill sets, both technical and social, […]

Blogs selected for Week June 3, 2019 to June 9, 2019

1. Leaving Behind the Outrage Economy The internet has largely become an attention harvesting mechanism in order to fuel advertising business models. Because of this, anger has become its most prized commodity, the more hateful and outraged, the more valuable. This drives engagement, and most of social media is designed to encourage and amplify it. […]

Blogs selected for Week May 27, 2019 to June 2, 2019

1. How can research benefit from increased spending in R&D? The UK government has vowed to increase its total R&D expenditure to 2.4 percent of GDP by 2027. With this ambitious target in sight, now seems a good time to pause and reflect on where to focus investment to support the fourth industrial revolution and […]

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

1. Revisiting – Navigating the Big Deal: A Guide for Societies In the wake of Plan S, many independent and society publishers are investigating partnerships with larger publishing houses. In his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Michael Clarke revisits a post that talked about understanding the current state of the Big Deal and the […]

Blogs selected for Week May 20, 2019 to May 26, 2019

1. Knowledge exchange or research impact – what is the difference between REF and KEF? The UK research system has historically been innovative in its approach to measuring and assessing the impacts of academic research. However, the recent development of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF), has elicited scepticism as to how this framework will significantly […]

Blogs selected for Week May 13, 2019 to May 19, 2019

1. Guest Post – A Study of Commenting on PLOS Articles Despite the near consensus about the popularity (or lack thereof) of commenting on academic articles, there is surprisingly little publicly available data relating to commenting rates. To address this, a team of academics from the Universities of Sheffield and Loughborough have recently published research […]