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Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder AdvocacyBusiness ModelsControversial TopicsEconomicsLibrariesOpen AccessPolicy Richard Poynder has long been one of the most respected and insightful commentators on the scholarly communication ecosystem, and in particular on the development and progress of the open access (OA) movement – to which he has always been a
Guest Post — A Year of Jxiv – Warming the Preprints Stone AuthorsExperimentationInfrastructureOpen Access Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Matthew Salter. Matthew is the Founder and CEO of Akabana ConsultingLLC, a boutique publishing consultancy that offers strategic publishing, editorial, marketing, business development, and Japanese language services to learned societies, scholarly publishers,
They Know We Know They Know: Does Sci-Hub Affect Library Subscriptions? AuthorsControversial TopicsCopyrightEthicsLibrariesOpen AccessSocial RoleTechnology The question of whether — and, if so, to what degree — Sci-Hub and similar pirate portals will lead (or are already leading) libraries to cancel journal subscriptions has been a fraught one for some time, and the debate doesn’t seem likely to s
Is it every day or just every week that we see an announcement of a new “transformative agreement” between a publisher and a library or library consortium? Or, if not a press release announcing such an agreement, a statement that such is the goal of a newly opened — or perhaps faltering — set of negotiations? Almost as quickly, the questions start. What’s read-and-publish? Is this contract Plan S
Guest Post — Emerging Trends in the Academic Publishing Lifecycle AuthorsLibrariesTools Editor’s Note: the following is a guest post by Christine Tulley, based on a presentation at the 2019 Researcher to Reader Conference in London. Christine is Professor of English, Director of the Masters in Rhetoric and Writing Program, and Academic Development Coordinator at The University of Findlay, Ohio. Th
MLIS: Metadata Librarians In Scholarly publishing CareersDiscoveryLibrariesTechnologyTools Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Abigail Wickes and Erica Leeman. Abigail is the Discoverability Associate at Oxford University Press (OUP), managing relationships with discovery partners and working to ensure OUP metadata meets industry standards. Erica is the Metadata Associate at the MIT Press (MITP), wh
Plan T: Scrap APCs and Fund Open Access with Submission Fees Business ModelsControversial TopicsOpen AccessPeer Review The announcement of Plan S by 11 European funding agencies has rocked the scholarly publishing community. In a nutshell, these funders (and others that may join them) are banding together to impose Open Access (OA) publishing on their researchers. Most contentiously, the funders p
In order to contribute analytical food for thought at this week’s Joint Roadmap for Open Science workshop, I was invited to facilitate discussion on the current landscape of open science tools and the opportunities for new or improved digital products in service of the research workflow. Among many things, Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) members came together to consider where they mi
Citation Performance Indicators — A Very Short Introduction EducationMetrics and Analytics In June, Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters) will release the Journal Citation Report (JCR), an annual summary of the citation performances of more than ten thousand academic journals. While the JCR includes a variety of benchmark performance indicators, most users are focused on just one metric — the Journ
Scientific Reports Overtakes PLOS ONE As Largest Megajournal Business ModelsControversial TopicsEconomicsMetrics and AnalyticsOpen Access After ten years of publishing, PLOS ONE is no longer the largest journal in the world. That title is now held by Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), which published a total of 6,214 research articles in the first quarter of 2017, compared to 5,541 articles in
PLOS ONE Output Drops Again In 2016 Business ModelsControversial TopicsOpen AccessResearch Research articles published among PLOS journals 2007-2016 (Data: PLOS). The world’s largest open access journal got a little smaller in 2016. Last year, publication output in PLOS ONE dropped by more than six-thousand research papers, from 28,106 in 2015 to 22,054 in 2016–a decline of about 22%. Since its pe
For the second year in a row, the number of research papers published in PLOS ONE fell, from a peak of 31,509 in 2013 to 28,107 in 2015 — a decline of 3,402 papers or 11%. PLOS ONE is still huge, mind you. Indeed, it is the largest journal the world has ever seen. In contrast, output from other PLOS journals looks minuscule by comparison. Taken together, articles published by all other Public Libr
(Please be aware, this article was posted on April 1st) There are Monopoly editions for properties in Amsterdam, Oxford, and London; editions for Rhode Island, the Red Sox, and Coca-Cola. There are even editions for SpongeBob Square Pants, Frozen, and Star Wars–and not just a generic Star Wars edition, mind you, but one specifically designed for the Clone Wars. Today, Hasbro, the US toymaker relea
Are Scientists Reading Less? Apparently, Scientists Didn't Read This Paper AuthorityControversial TopicsMetrics and AnalyticsResearchSociology Reading (Photo credit: Moyan_Brenn) The headline, “Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years” was published online in the news section of Nature by the astute science journalist, Richard van Noorden. This bold claim referred to a new, but u
As Hybrid Open Access Grows, the Scholarly Community Needs Article-level OA Metadata AuthorityBusiness ModelsExperimentationHousekeepingMetrics and AnalyticsTechnologyToolsWorld of Tomorrow Wordle on a German Open Access Text (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Over the past decade, open access (OA) delivery of content has seen rapid growth and has proven itself as a viable business model for distributing s
Is PeerJ Membership Publishing Sustainable? Business ModelsControversial TopicsEconomicsSociology Discussions about open access publishing usually converge on two topical issues: 1) morality (fairness, justice, social welfare); or 2) sustainability. This post is about the latter. More specifically, this post is about PeerJ’s innovative membership publishing model. In my first post, I described how
The Emergence of a Citation Cartel AuthorityControversial TopicsEthicsMetrics and Analytics Domino tiles (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From an economics standpoint, self-citation is the easiest method to boost one’s citations. Every author knows this and cites his own articles, however peripheral their relationship is to the topic at hand. Editors know this as well, and some have been caught coercing
Over the past few days, I — along with many of my library colleagues — have received several email messages about a boycott of Elsevier by academics who in the past may have reviewed for, edited, or published in Elsevier journals and are now pledging not to do so again. An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education characterizes the boycott as “gather(ing) steam” and refers readers to a website
Kent Anderson is the CEO of RedLink and RedLink Network, a past-President of SSP, and the founder of the Scholarly Kitchen. He has worked as Publisher at AAAS/Science, CEO/Publisher of JBJS, Inc., a publishing executive at the Massachusetts Medical Society, Publishing Director of the New England Journal of Medicine, and Director of Medical Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics. Opinions o
Phil Davis is a publishing consultant specializing in the statistical analysis of citation, readership, publication and survey data. He has a Ph.D. in science communication from Cornell University (2010), extensive experience as a science librarian (1995-2006) and was trained as a life scientist. https://phil-davis.com/ Given the tiered structure of the importance of research results, this cascadi
Guest Post: Behind Every Paper is a Person – Reviewer Comments Matter IOP Publishing offers a short video that draws attention to the importance of professional and constructive peer reviews. The real challenge in implementing new peer review technologies lies in managing the human and organizational changes required to make these innovations stick. Three experts share their insights into how they
Why Hasn’t Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already? Business ModelsPeer ReviewTechnologyWorld of Tomorrow Photo from iStockphoto. Looking back on 2009, there was one particular note that seemed to sound repeatedly, resonating through the professional discourse at conferences and in posts throughout the blogosphere: the likelihood of disruptive change afoot in the scientific publishing industr
Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars Business ModelsControversial TopicsExperimentation Would a publisher accept a completely nonsensical manuscript if the authors were willing to pay Open Access publication charges? After being spammed with invitations to publish in Bentham Science journals earlier this year, I decided to find out. Using SCIgen, a software that generates
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