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Blogs selected for Week March 9 to March 15, 2020

1. Making a plan when planning is impossible Most biomedical or clinical journals have committed resources to rapidly peer-review and produce papers related to COVID-19. Companies are beginning to prepare for potential office closings with high levels of ‘work from home’ anticipated. Travel bans, office closures, and conference cancellations have publishers and societies thinking about […]

Blogs selected for Week March 2 to March 8, 2020

1. Open Access Directory – A resource for making sense of the open access landscape The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a wiki of factual lists on the subject of open access. Designed to make sense out of the chaos of different information about open access, in this post Nancy Pontika recounts why the OAD […]

Blogs selected for Week February 24 to March 1, 2020

1. New Chinese Policy Could Reshape Global STM Publishing The new Chinese policy states that publication of papers will only be used as a main evaluation indicator for basic science and technology research, and not for applied research and technological development. This removes the publication burden from clinicians and engineers and others working in more […]

Blogs selected for Week February 17 to February 23, 2020

1. The “Pure Publish” Agreement Pure publish contracts are possible now. It is not necessary to wait for the subscription publishers to change their business model or to pair a pure publish component with a read and publish component in a transformative agreement. The notion of a pure publish agreement has been emerging for some […]

Blogs selected for Week February 10 to February 16, 2020

1. Counting Down to #NISOPlus20! On February 23, The National Information Standards Organization will welcome about 250 attendees to a sold-out inaugural NISO Plus conference in Baltimore, MD. The NISO Board Member steering committee has given a lot of thought and effort into making NISO Plus different from the average industry conference. From the outset […]

Blogs selected for Week February 3 to February 9, 2020

1. Revisiting — Transformative Agreements: A Primer Do you know what is meant by the term “transformative agreement” or how “Read and Publish” deals are structured? Today we revisit the 2019 primer by @lisalibrarian explaining the basics concepts behind these increasingly important approaches. In this post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe Mariëlle […]

Blogs selected for Week January 27 to February 2, 2020

1. Scholarly Societies: The Importance of Community For most societies, publishing revenues are used to provide services directly to all in their community – not just those who are paid-up members. In the same way that academic institutions thrive through generating revenues and then spending the proceeds on development of the community, so do scholarly […]

Blogs selected for Week January 20 to January 26, 2020

1. Data Analysis: How Effective Is TrendMD? A reanalysis of TrendMD experimental data reveal details on its effectiveness, novelty, and bias. A recent paper authored by the founders and employees of TrendMD, a recommender system for academic content, reported an overall citation benefit of 50% — a net gain of 5.1 citations within 12 months. […]

Blogs selected for Week January 13 to January 19, 2020

1. Let Authors Choose How to Pay for Peer Review and Publication The United States Office for Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) is rumoured to be gearing up to release an Open Access (OA) policy, and like cOAlition S before it, both the funders involved and the researchers affected will need to consider different approaches […]

Blogs selected for Week January 7 to January 12, 2020

1. Who Is Competing to Own Researcher Identity? The structural transition wrought by the internet continues to transform the journal-centric model of scholarly publishing into a researcher-centric model of scholarly communication. Success requires engagement with researcher identity, which is a struggle even for most of the largest publishing houses. Who is competing to own researcher […]