Reflecting on the debate around generative AI and its impact on scholarly communication, Danny Kingsley argues, much like open access twenty years earlier, AI holds a dark mirror to enduring flaws in research publishing and assessment. It has been inte…
Category: scholarly communication
In the community: Open data in academic publishing
Learn more about how Dryad has supported data sharing since our inception in 2008, and the impact we have in advancing scientific research in this recent presentation by Dryad’s Executive Director, Jen Gibson. As part of the IntechOpen Journals webinar…
How to make academic book reviews sustainable in a pay to publish environment
Book reviews, let alone academic book reviews, have received many premature notices of their demise. However, as Christina Lembrecht and Vassiliki Gortsas, discuss alongside a crisis in authorship, reviews also run the risk of being excluded from fundi…
New at Dryad: Maria Guerreiro appointed Head of Partnership Development
As a member-driven non-profit, Dryad collaborates with an international network of partners to sustain our work furthering the open sharing and reuse of research data. Maria is an open science advocate who enjoys working collaboratively with researcher…
Bigger than the sum of its parts – Finding a focal point for engaging university communication teams
University communications functions can from the outside seem monolithic and impenetrable. Offering a brief overview of different kinds of research comms, Andy Tattersall suggests how researchers can navigate and work effectively with different profess…
Lack of sustainability plans for preprint services risks their potential to improve science
During the COVID-19 pandemic, preprint servers became a vital mechanism for the rapid sharing and review of vital research. However, discussing the findings of a recent report, Naomi Penfold finds much of the infrastructure supporting non-commercial pr…
2022 in review: The Culture of Academic Publishing
Froom books to papers, in 2022 longstanding ways of producing and thinking about academic publications have been in a state of flux. This post brings together ten of the best posts on the theme of the culture of academic publishing that were published …
Adding equity to transformative agreements and journal subscriptions –The Read & Let Read model
The transition towards open access to research articles has become a question of how, rather than why and the rise of transformative agreements has enabled publishers to strike agreements with large institutions and national research organisations to p…
The dream of ‘editormetrics’ – Why a FAIR dataset of journal editors would benefit all researchers
The great convergence – Does increasing standardisation of journal articles limit intellectual creativity?
Drawing on a recent survey of forty years of research papers in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and interviews with authors, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Kean Birch, Thed van Leeuwen and Maria Amuchastegui observe an increasing homogenisat…