Guest Post — Fiesole 2025: A Step Back to Move Forward in the Era of ‘Postnormal Publishing’
A report from this year’s Fiesole Retreat: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future.
We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report
NISO issues a report on workshops looking to improve the efficiency of working with AI systems in scholarly publishing
Guest Post — Reading the Leaves of Publishing Speed: The Cases of Hindawi, Frontiers, and PLOS
The analysis of operational data is complex, dull, and unrewarding. It is also necessary. Three case studies of major journals and portfolios explain why.
Strategies to Improve Open Science Monitoring: Lessons from France’s OSM initiative
The French Open Science Monitor Initiative shows a path toward improving recognition of data sharing and open science assessment.
Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust: The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Issues Guidance on AI
We are expecting the US Government’s AI Action Plan to be issued over the summer. In the meantime, we may glean some of the administration’s views by looking at recently issued information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data
Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.
Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.
No One Size Fits All: The Case for Taking a National Approach to PID Adoption
Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative’s recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).
Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs
The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.
It Takes a Village: Empowering the Community to Improve Scholarly Metadata through COMET
What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…
Guest Post — Challenges in Academic Publishing Amid War: ISSN Issues in Ukraine Threaten Research Integrity
Recently, a group of Ukrainian researchers uncovered serious violations in the use of ISSN identifiers by journals operating in temporarily occupied territories, revealing systematic misuse of academic infrastructure and promoting narratives hostile to Ukraine.
Telling the Story of How Open Access Benefits Society: A Vision for the Future
Traditional metrics do not allow us to fully express how OA publishing benefits society; here’s a vision for the future of storytelling with usage data in scholarly communications.
Revisiting: Measuring Societal Impact or, Meet the New Metric, Same as the Old Metric
Bringing back a post from 2018, as funders increasingly demand measurements of “real world” impact from researchers. Does this steer us toward the same traps we’re already in from the ways we already do research assessment and is this short-term thinking problematic for the future of science?
Guest Post: Reflections from The Munin Conference Part Three – Measuring Impact
This is the third and final article in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at The Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today’s focus is measuring impact.
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., and Sage Forge a New Relationship
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., an independent publisher focused on cutting edge biotechnology research, has been acquired by Sage. In this interview, the company’s namesake shares her future vision of the company under Sage ownership as well as her reflections on over 40 years of STM publishing.