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It’s been a musical week in our household, and I’ve spent a significant amount of time being schooled in the history and nuance of the Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and J. Cole feud (here’s a primer for…

A recent Twitter (sorry, “X”) conversation about the word “preprint” got me thinking about the evolution of language and the video below. Just as the meaning of words change (when was the last time…

Continuing our Kitchen Essentials series of interviews with leaders of infrastructure organizations, today we’re hearing from Tracey Armstrong, CEO of Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the information solutions provider to…

It’s now ten years since the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) in the UK launched its first “transitional agreement” (TA) with Springer Nature. Since then, Jisc has negotiated and/or renewed 75 TAs with 47 publishers.…

Chefs are in hot demand. “Chefs, chefs, chefs! Virtually impossible to find anyone,” lamented one Auckland restaurant owner recently. Australia is seeing a similar gap, with chefs ranked the eighth most in-demand occupation. Given…

Every research article submitted to a journal should come with a digital certificate validating that the authors’ institution(s) has completed a series of checks to ensure research integrity. Journals should not hold primary…

The recent nationwide audit of retracted research papers in China has shed light on significant challenges within the academic community. This audit, initiated by the Ministry’s Department of Science, Technology, and…

Increasingly, scientific inquiry requires larger and larger technological investments to push the bounds of discovery. Research facilities, such as satellites, particle colliders, specially-equipped airplanes,or research…

"The Indonesian Navy's mariners must be able to help the community wherever they are and on duty, especially emergencies like natural disasters that occur in the country,"Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) through…

SSP Thanks 373 Individual & Organizational Contributors The Generations Fund is celebrating its next milestone achievement—officially surpassing the three-quarters mark of its goal of $500,000. To date, 337 individuals and…

This week a collaborative team working in partnership with the various open research organizations released a report that seeks to advance interoperability, simplify output tracking, and improve the overall process of scholarly research…

This week a collaborative team working in partnership with the various open research organizations released a report that seeks to advance interoperability, simplify output tracking, and improve the overall process of scholarly…

Elsevier has been under the spotlight this month for publishing a paper that contains a clearly ChatGPT-written portion of its introduction. The first sentence of the paper’s Introduction reads, “Certainly, here is a possible…

Elsevier has been under the spotlight this month for publishing a paper that contains a clearly ChatGPT-written portion of its introduction. The first sentence of the paper’s Introduction reads, “Certainly, here is a possible…

Unless you eat everything out of the microwave, chances are you spend a good amount of time most days in your kitchen making meals. All that time standing around on those hard floors can be murder on your body, and nowhere worse than…

Editor’s Note: Today’s Mental Health Awareness Mondays guest post is by Marjorie Hlava, Chief Scientist at Access Innovations, Inc. It is intended to supplement February’s post, Categorizing Mental Health Research by Hélène…

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) chat with Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature and the first…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, and Erik van Winkle. Christopher is a neuro-economist, technologist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded DeSci Labs, developing next-generation technologies to…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, and Erik van Winkle. Christopher is a neuro-economist, technologist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded DeSci Labs, developing next-generation technologies to…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, and Erik van Winkle. Christopher is a neuro-economist, technologist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded DeSci Labs, developing next-generation technologies to…

Continuing our Kitchen Essentials series of interviews with leaders of infrastructure organizations, today we’re hearing from Will Schweitzer, CEO SilverChair, an independent platform partner for scholarly and professional…

Earlier this month, I encountered a whimsical bit of design in a delightful murder mystery. Just before the half-title page, there was a page displaying Ronald Knox’s Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction. In the upper right…

Recently, we talk to Dr. Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of the MIT Press, one of the largest university presses in North America, publishing books and journals across science, technology, art, and design. Amy received her doctorate…

Recently, we talk to Dr. Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of the MIT Press, one of the largest university presses in North America, publishing books and journals across science, technology, art, and design. Amy received her doctorate…

Today, we talk to Dr. Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of the MIT Press, one of the largest university presses in North America, publishing books and journals across science, technology, art, and design. Amy received her…

Founded by John Bohannon (yes, that John Bohannon), the Dance Your PhD Contest has been around since 2008, offering science graduate students a way to explain their research creatively and perhaps…

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Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is by Heather Weltin, HathiTrust; Alison Wohlers, California Digital Library (CDL); and Amy Wood, Center for Research Libraries (CRL), who are coordinators for the CDL, CRL, & HathiTrust…

From clothing to hairstyles, nostalgia is all the rage. While it’s easy to think of ways to bring some traditional flair to your wardrobe, many incorrectly believe that vintage-looking kitchen appliances and electronics can only be…

Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is by Heather Weltin, HathiTrust; Alison Wohlers, California Digital Library (CDL); and Amy Wood, Center for Research Libraries (CRL), who are coordinators for the CDL, CRL, & HathiTrust…

Continuing our Kitchen Essentials series of interviews with leaders of infrastructure organizations, today we are speaking with Lauren Kane, CEO of BioOne, a community-based platform that provides global distribution for more…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Panagiotis Kavouras, Eleni Spyrakou, Maura Hiney, and Daniel Barr. Panagiotis is a senior researcher at the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. During…

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence (AI) is the potential for their use in translation. Though once the stuff of science fiction, and an ideal route to filling plot holes to allow…

The story about blind people describing an elephant is apt right now considering artificial intelligence systems, particularly in scholarly communications. Many people have ideas, but few, if any, can grasp the entirety of the…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Teresa Kubacka. Teresa is a senior data scientist in the Knowledge Management Group at the ETH Library (ETH Zurich) and leads a project “Towards Open Bibliometric Indicators”. The article…

Continuing our Kitchen Essentials series of interviews with leaders of infrastructure organizations, this week we are speaking with leaders of preservation initiatives.Today we’re hearing from Alicia Wise, Executive Director of…

Continuing our Kitchen Essentials series of interviews with leaders of infrastructure organizations, this week we are speaking with leaders of preservation initiatives.Today we’re hearing from Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson,…

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) is joined by SSP’s current president, Randy Townsend. Randy is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the GW Journal of Ethics in…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Akira Abduh. Akira is a freelance researcher who is interested in perceptions of publications and their metrics. Stanford University’s recently updated list identifies the world’s top 2% of the…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Akira Abduh. Akira is a freelance researcher who is interested in perceptions of publications and their metrics. Stanford University’s recently updated list identifies the world’s top 2% of the…

Continuing our series of Kitchen Essentials interviews with leaders of research infrastructure organizations, today we hear from Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn, the Executive Director and Director of Community Engagement and…

Editor’s Note: Recently’s post is by Camille Gamboa. Camille is Associate Vice President of Corporate Communications for Sage. Sage has recently launched Sage Policy Profiles, a free tool that let’s researchers discover where they…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Camille Gamboa. Camille is Associate Vice President of Corporate Communications for Sage. Sage has recently launched Sage Policy Profiles, a free tool that let’s researchers discover where they…

I recently co-authored a paper published in Learned Publishing, “Adapting Peer Review for the Future: Digital Disruptions and Trust in Peer Review”, which addresses the intersection of digital disruptions and trust in peer review.…

I recently co-authored a paper published in Learned Publishing, “Adapting Peer Review for the Future: Digital Disruptions and Trust in Peer Review”, which addresses the intersection of digital disruptions and trust in peer…

Continuing our Kitchen Essentials series of interviews with leaders of infrastructure organizations, today we’re hearing from Sami Benchekroun, CEO of Morressier, a Berlin-based startup that provides publishers with workflows…

About two months ago, I published an interview with Richard Poynder in which he discussed his recent announcement that he was “signing off from reporting on open access,” because “the movement has failed and is being rebranded…

Manila, Philippines – “Don’t treat this like a full dinner. Only take small portions,” a mother warns her son as he reaches for a second helping of zarda – saffron-hued, sweetened rice topped with heaps of raisins and cashews – on the…

In the quaint days of 2019, when the EU issued its Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (DSM), much attention was focused on issues such as a news publishers’ rights and the obligations of platforms to take down infringing…

Of late, I have been considering the nature of work, and how this may change as we embrace AI in the workplace. I thought I should turn for help to the brilliant mind of Hannah Arendt, perhaps the most important political…