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Blogs selected for Week May 6, 2019 to May 12, 2019

1. Academics Raise Concerns About Predatory Journals on PubMed PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s repository of millions of abstracts and citations, has long been one of the most highly regarded sources for searching biomedical literature. For some members of the scientific community, the presence of predatory journals, publications that tend to churn out low-quality […]

Blogs selected for Week April 29, 2019 to May 5, 2019

1. Cabell’s Predatory Journal Blacklist: An Updated Review Cabell’s Blacklist is a directory of journals that are published using questionable, suspicious, or objectively deceitful and dishonest strategies. Two years after its initial entry into the marketplace, Cabell’s Blacklist has matured into a carefully crafted and highly useful directory of predatory and deceptive journals, notes Rick […]

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

1. Challenges and Opportunities in Pre-published Research Sharing and evaluating early stage research findings can be challenging. But, this is starting to change. However, as we gain an increased appreciation of the value of early-stage research and acknowledge how much knowledge goes missing when these findings are not shared. Sami Benchekroun and Michelle Kuepper, in […]

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

1. Guest Post – The Dissertation Publication Requirement: It’s Time for Reexamination Academe is conditioned to public dissemination of doctoral dissertations, and the justification from the website of the University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School is typical. Rob Schlesinger, in his guest post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, encourages a rethink of the common requirement […]

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

1. Subscribe To Open: Annual Reviews’ Take on Open Access Annual Reviews is keen to pursue open access (OA), believing its content to be of wide general interest, but does not consider APCs to be a viable route. Ann Michael, in her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, explores how the organisation plans to leverage […]

Blogs selected for Week March 25, 2019 to March 31, 2019

1. Guest Post – Emerging Trends in the Academic Publishing Lifecycle Posted by Christine Tulley in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, this guest post discusses how the academic publication lifecycle has undergone radical changes over the past several years. These changes have a significant impact on how scholarship will be written, published, promoted, and read in […]

Blogs selected for Week March 18, 2019 to March 24, 2019

1. Scientific publishing needs to change The goal of scientific publication was to tear down silos. While the existing scientific publication system has limited value in this world, the scholarly peer review process is more important than ever, notes Jonathan Thon, in his post in the University Affairs Blog. The blog post says (quote): Selected […]

Blogs selected for Week March 11, 2019 to March 17, 2019

1. Guest Post – Pictures Worth a Thousand Words? On Visualisations of Scholarly Workflow It is no secret that some of the major players in scholarly communications are pivoting toward offering support for research processes beyond publishing. Universities, research funders, and librarians are increasingly invested in shaping research processes as well, especially amid growing concerns […]

Blogs selected for Week March 4, 2019 to March 10, 2019

1. Revisiting: Governance and the Not-for-profit Publisher How can not-for-profit organisations outcompete their commercial rivals? Joseph Esposito, in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, revisits his 2011 post that lays out a blueprint for success. The blog post says (quote): A lack of money is not what prevents a NFP from becoming the next Wolters Kluwer. Something […]

Blogs selected for Week February 25, 2019 to March 3, 2019

1. Say blockchain one more time! What is the real value of blockchain to higher education? The revolutionary potential of blockchain has been much touted in many fields including research and higher education. In his post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, Martin Hamilton discusses some of the potential applications of blockchain to […]