The Center for Open Science | Preregistration Challenge
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Some of the world's leading journals are taking steps to maximize the transparency and reproducibility of science by promoting the preregistration of research.
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Open Practice Badges: A Primer and How to Get Started
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The Center for Open Science (COS) provides tools, training, support, and advocacy that help researchers and scholars manage, share, and discover scientific research. The COS’ mission is to “increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scholarly research. Acceleration of scientific progress can be a primary motivator for scholarship and a powerful driver of real solutions.”
Read MoreChoosing a Journal or Book Printer
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A great primer on finding a print partner by John Bond at Riverwinds Consulting. John's YouTube channel, Publishing Defined, is a great resource for scholarly and academic publishers.
Read MoreAccessibility for Journal Publishers
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The terms “access” and “scholarly journals” are often linked to Open Access publishing. Less often discussed—but still very important—are issues and challenges of making journal content accessible to the visually, cognitively, or otherwise impaired.
Read MoreCounting the Hidden Costs of Publishing
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The rise of digital STM publishing, and the ongoing discussion about open access and subscription-based models, has led some to conclude that these changes inexorably lead to lower overall publication costs. Reality is more complex.
Read MorePublishing Defined: John Bond's STM Publishing Video Series
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John Bond of Riverwinds Consulting is creating a video library of useful shorts about topics and terms important to the STM publishing industry. For some people, his shorts may provide a great refresher or another take on subjects that impact our market. For those just starting their career in STM publishing, his video series should be required viewing!
Read MoreWeb-First Production or Publish-Ahead-of-Print...That Which We Call a Workflow Should Publish Just as Fast
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In the STM journal publishing world, it seems like every few years we have a new phrase to describe the dissemination of scholarly content. Each phrase describes a slightly different aspect of journal publishing and based on where you work in an organization, it may mean something slightly different.
Read MoreSeven Facts That Publishers Should Know About DOI
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While some academic publishing metadata standards have yet to reach a “tipping point,” others are already well established. The Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, is one of these.
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