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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, […]