This week is Publication Integrity Week, a recently established annual event to highlight issues and challenges around integrity in scholarly communications. The stated aim of the week this year is to focus on four main areas: evolution of scholarship, conflicting incentives, collaboration and practical ethics. It seems fitting to reflect on these issues this week … Continue reading Publishing integrity: who is responsible within a university?
Green light
One of the most deeply ironic issues facing academia today is that despite having more access to research than ever before, making sense of it is only getting harder. Layer after layer of complexity has been added ever since those first few steps in the 1990s when articles were put online. Journal paywalls, open access … Continue reading Green light
Cabells launches new AI-powered Pathfinder tool to map SDG research
BEAUMONT, TX: Cabells – the US-based information services company – has today launched Pathfinder, a new online tool that maps academic research to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Available to users of Cabells’ market-leading publications platform Journalytics, Pathfinder uses AI to match an abstract, introduction or summary of a paper to the 17 SDGs. Researchers … Continue reading Cabells launches new AI-powered Pathfinder tool to map SDG research
The hidden cost of knowledge?
It’s Open Access Week, that time of year when librarians, publishers, and academics alike fill their feeds with the latest hot takes on all things open access (OA). The theme for this year is ‘The Cost of Knowledge’, and the aim as described on the official OA Week website, is to “recognize that accessing and … Continue reading The hidden cost of knowledge?
How can we navigate today’s publishing landscape?
On Wednesday 21 October, the Global Business School Network (GBSN) will host a webinar with a panel of experts offering guidance on how to develop effective research and publishing strategies against the backdrop of geopolitical upheaval and confusion surrounding the impact question. The intention is to spark a debate around the potential of a ‘paradigm … Continue reading How can we navigate today’s publishing landscape?
The growth crisis
This week, the great and the good of scholarly communications gathered in Frankfurt for the annual STM Conference. Timed to coincide with the Frankfurt Book Fair, it is the biggest event on the calendar for senior industry members to discuss and debate the big challenges facing publishers, societies, and research institutions worldwide. The main theme … Continue reading The growth crisis
Where predators lurk
As any academic researcher will tell you, one of the banes of their professional existence is the constant, annoying stream of solicitations they receive by email purporting to praise their research and prior output before soliciting their next article submission from them. Sometimes these emails are so obvious they can be deleted; sometimes they are … Continue reading Where predators lurk
Secure thinking
Earlier in September Cabells published a blog about a controversy that had descended on the usually benign world of philosophy, where an article openly using AI had been provocatively published in a journal. The ensuing debate and decision by the journal to pretty much ban the use of AI from submissions has had wide repercussions … Continue reading Secure thinking
New directions
A little over a year ago, Cabells dipped its toe into the AI ocean and launched the beta version of CompassAI – an independent, cutting-edge tool for researchers to identify the journals with the best fit for their research. The launch has been incredibly successful, with great customer feedback and new use cases we hadn’t even thought of ourselves. Twelve months on, and we have used that feedback to fully launch CompassAI today. As … Continue reading New directions
Are the SDGs about to have their moment?
Manchester, which ALPSP has adopted for its annual conference, is famously known for having prodigious rainfall – and right on cue, the heavens opened midway through the event. But the rain has come as a welcome relief for many who have suffered the hottest summer on record in the UK. It is with this backdrop that the … Continue reading Are the SDGs about to have their moment?