‘An Interview with Tracey Armstrong of CCC’

Tracey Armstrong, in an interview for The Scholarly Kitchen last week: What keeps me up at night is the unlicensed use of copyrighted material in AI systems and the lack of recognition globally of the critical, foundational, and perpetual role that copyrighted...

‘The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis’

Gail Steinhart and Katherine Skinner, announcing a new Invest in Open Infrastructure report on data-repository funding: Here, we present an initial report on our findings as part of our project to investigate “reasonable costs” for public access to United States...

The Publication is Alive!

Mikhail Gorbunov-Posadov, in a November article in publications: An alive publication is a new genre for presenting the results of scientific research, where the scientific work is published online, and then is constantly being developed and improved by its author....

‘We failed to anticipate how successful APCs would become’

Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS, in an interview with The Scholarly Kitchen about a year ago: Back when PLOS launched and focused on the biomedical sciences, charging authors a fee to publish seemed fair and reasonable. Fast forward twenty years and it’s clear that we...

‘The game of academic publishing’

Nathalie Ann Köbli and colleagues, writing for Frontiers in Communication on gamification of social scientists’ publishing: Quantifying publication outcomes to assess and financially incentivize research performance results in a highly competitive playing field where...