• Forum discussion topics

  Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?

  …subscription journals which are predatory as seen by applying the definition? The group really has to convene the message that oa is not linked to predatory. Answer: This is an important point. Our consensus definition does not require that a journal be open access to be considered predatory. Our journal authenticator tool will be developed to include all journals, no just those that are open…
• News

  In the news: July Digest

  15 July 2019

  …how this has ‘shocked’ the Humanities publishing industry into formulating OA strategies which until recently has not been a focus. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/07/02/guest-post-plan-s-and-humanities-publishing…
• News

  Case discussion: gift authorship

  13 May 2021

  …href="https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2014-44015-002.html">The Behavior Analyst Today, Daniel Shabani et al (2004) reported that the 53 most prolific authors in the field of behaviour sciences published an average of 2.9 articles per year between 1992 and 2001; the 11 most prolific authors published 4.2 articles per year. In an analysis of medical papers published from 2008 to 2012,
• News

  In the news: June Digest

  25 June 2019

  …target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01720-7 Among ~1000 Japanese surveyed researchers, 95% have shared their  data. 75% were motivated to do so because the discoverability of their data is considered important; 50% wanted to progress their field of research and 42% for transparency. This infographic presents further details about how data are shared.
• Seminars

  …presentation [Powerpoint, 6570kB]  OA and copyright—rights in and rights out - Mark Seely, Senior VP/General Counsel, Elsevier Download presentation [PDF, 354kB]  How editors share information about misconduct - Charon Pierson, COPE council
• News

  A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world: guest article

  18 January 2021

  …From a practice and implementation standpoint, this principle reduces the overall labor involved in a name change for everyone involved. 2. Comprehensiveness Name changes should remove all instances of an author's previous name from the records maintained and disseminated by the publisher. Due to the aforementioned risks of disclosure, publishers must take care to not…

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