Haseeb Irfanullah takes a look at how volunteerism shapes scholarly communication.
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Turns out, digital transformation is actually more human than technical. Learn more in these case studies from Emerald and De Gruyter.
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The Co-Chairs of this year’s Peer Review Week Steering Group reveal the theme of Peer Review Week 2021.
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In the second of two posts on persistent identifiers in scholarly communications, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share information about a new cost-benefit analysis showing the value of widespread PID adoption
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Today’s post is the first of two in which we look at the state of persistent identifiers and what they mean for publishers—to coincide with the first meeting, on June 21, of the new UK Research Identifier National Coordinating Council (RINCC) and publication the same day of a Cost Benefit Analysis Report, funded by the UK Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for Open Access project.
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Danielle Cooper and Roger Schonfeld analyze OverDrive’s purchase of the streaming video platform Kanopy.
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A look at BioASQ — an annual competition to develop AI systems to help drive medical progress.
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The team behind SeamlessAccess discuss why identity federation promotes security and privacy despite coordinated attacks on access systems
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Judy Luther looks back at the waves of change that have reshaped our industry. Looking ahead, the next big wave is to use analytics and AI as we complete the transition to open content.
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Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest: analysis by Roger Schonfeld
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The STM Association released an Article Sharing Framework to facilitate use of scholarly collaboration networks in compliance with new EU Copyright Directive.
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Revisiting a 2018 post discussing that for social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this revisited guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.
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A look at a session from last week’s CHORUS Forum that discussed new open access business models — what does it take to make them work?
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APC waivers aim to help ensure that researchers from low- and middle-income countries can publish their research. But the current system is hindered by lack of awareness, clarity and consistency. Andrea Powell proposes how publishers could improve the situation.
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Like a home renovation, content standards, like JATS4R, involve surprises & inter-dependencies, demanding our teamwork & flexibility.
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