In this interview, President and Founder of PSP Consulting Pippa Smart, overviews the many variations of blind and open peer review that she's come across as well as core benefits and challenges of each that journals should consider.
As the shortfallings of the Journal Impact Factor become more glaring, the question is — will it ever be superseded? In this blog, we overview three emerging alternative research assessment options that journal publishers should watch and ways to implement them.
In this interview, Olga Pilkington, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research at Dixie State University, discusses how she spearheaded the launch of the university's first student-run open access journal, Curiosity: Interdisciplinary Journal of Research and Innovation.
To help those adjusting to working from home in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Scholastica, Research Square, and the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors hosted a free webinar on transitioning to extended remote work. Here's a recap of the event and the full recording.
Discussions about scholarly research have historically occurred within the confines of academia. But the expansion of open access publishing has started to change that. In this post, we look at an OA article that become the source of wide-reaching scholarly and public interest and debate.
What are key AI opportunities and challenges in the academic publishing sector? We caught up with Josh Nicholson, co-founder and CEO of the deep learning platform scite, to get his thoughts.
For journals to provide an effective online reading experience for human and machine readers, producing articles in digitally compatible HTML and XML files is becoming paramount.
Peter Coles, Editor-in-Chief of The Open Journal of Astrophysics, and Christian Gogolin, founding editor of Quantum, share why they chose to publish their journals via the arXiv overlay model and how they believe overlay journals will contribute to greater equity in OA.
In this interview, Aileen Fyfe, professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews, shares an abridged history of journal publishing at scholarly societies and her thoughts on how scholarly publishing's past can influence its present.
In this interview, lecturer for the Faculty of Law at the University of Malaya Stewart Manley unpacks the FTC v. OMICS case and its broader implications for the oversight of predatory publishing practices.
