Dr. Simine Vazire, Professor at the University of Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of Collabra: Psychology, a fully-OA journal out of UC Press, discusses the journal's unique funding model and steps they're taking to promote transparency in publishing.
Dr. Andrew Piper, Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University, and editor of the Journal of Cultural Analytics, discusses how the Diamond OA title has developed in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
Dr. Craig Cohen, Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Global Health, a new journal out of UC Press and the UC Global Health Institute, shares steps he and his team are taking to factor structural equity into publication planning, including framing the journal around the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Annie Gering, Publishing Editor at RTI Press, discusses how RTI improved its peer review experience for editors, authors, and reviewers and started producing articles in more index-optimized digital formats with the help of Scholastica in this interview.
What steps can the scholarly community take to reform research evaluation and move away from relying too heavily on finite metrics that could skew the results? A recent NISO webinar series explored this question.
As preprint use extends beyond its origins in physics, math, law, and economics into other disciplines, how are journal publishers responding? In this blog, we overview steps journal publishers are taking to allow preprint posting and even integrate it with their publishing processes.
What steps should scholarly publishers be taking to promote better travel routes and rules of the road for research metadata and data sharing to support discovery, assessment, and reuse, and what are the possibilities? Here are some key takeaways from the 2021 NISO Plus conference.
In her work, Judy Luther, President of Informed Strategies, has remained on the pulse of current developments in scholarly publishing and research information systems. In a recent interview, we asked her to share the primary changes she's observed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and her future expectations. Here are highlights from that conversation.
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.
