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Article Sharing Framework: Facilitating Scholarly Sharing Through Metadata

Author: TODD A CARPENTER The STM Association released an Article Sharing Framework to facilitate use of scholarly collaboration networks in compliance with new EU Copyright Directive. The ability of sites to capture, index and republish digital content has created a plethora of useful tools and services on the internet. Who hasn’t found it useful to […]

Can AI be used ethically to assist peer review?

Author: Alessandro Checco, Lorenzo Bracciale, Pierpaolo Loreti, Stephen Pinfield, Giuseppe Bianchi As the rate and volume of academic publications has risen, so too has the pressure on journal editors to quickly find reviewers to assess the quality of academic work. In this context the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost productivity and reduce workload […]

Guest Post – Starting a Novel Software Journal within the Existing Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem: Technical and Social Lessons

Author: DANIEL S. KATZ, ARFON M. SMITH The Journal of Open Source Software was designed from scratch using the principles of open source and software design practices. This has both advantages and disadvantages, particularly with respect to elements of the traditional scholarly publishing ecosystem. The full entry can be read: Here.

Who benefits from data for good?

Author: Melissa Aronczyk, Maria Isabel Espinoza The central proposition of ‘data for good’ is that corporations should publicly share data sets derived from their business activities across various areas of the economy to improve and guide policymaking. Based on their study of contributors to the Big Data for Climate Action initiative, Maria Isabel Espinoza and […]

Guest Post — Space and Grace in Open Access Publishing

Author: DUSTIN FIFE We should strive for open but also be realistic about the options truly available to researchers and discuss them transparently and honestly. Open should create more spaces for more perspectives, not limit researchers and writers to an artificial pool of publications. The conversations must continue and equity in publishing should be prioritized. […]

Grow Your Research Information Hub with Smart Harvesting AI

Author: Exlibris blogs Researchers want their work to be acknowledged; and universities want their researchers to be acknowledged. Ensuring it happens is a necessary step to earning peer recognition, securing future funding, and improving the university’s academic ranking. The institution’s research information hub (also known as a research repository) plays a key role in collecting […]

The importance of early career researchers for promoting open research

Author: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz Early career researchers again appear to be at the vanguard of open research, with them reporting more positive attitudes towards sharing of code compared to more experienced researchers – as found in PLOS research released as a preprint this week. At the end of March 2021 PLOS Computational Biology introduced a more […]

New Open Access Business Models — What’s Needed to Make Them Work

Author: DAVID CROTTY In order to build a diverse ecosystem of open access publishing models that can support the diverse needs of the many different members of the research community, other models will be needed. But developing a new model is not an easy undertaking. Launching a new business model, figuring out how to make […]

Without social sciences, humanities and arts, the goal of sustainability may never be reached

Author: Eric Neumayer Eric Neumayer and Charles Joly argue that the key challenges posed by making a transition to a sustainable net-zero carbon economy are social, rather than technological. As such, instead of waiting for technological change to simply emerge, in the post-covid world, a new emphasis should be placed on SHAPE subjects (social sciences, […]

Trends in Physical and Electronic Resource Usage in U.S. Academic Libraries

Author: Yoel Kortick Over the past few decades libraries have moved from collections of books and other print media to complex collections of print and electronic resources. By looking at historical trends it is possible to conjecture what the future of these collections will look like. There are many different ways of looking at the […]