(3 Sep 2026) There are two ways to learn about a topic: from deep inside, and from the outside. When it comes to learning about the scholarly communications industry, there are plentiful examples of the former, including this very blog. Just over 12 months ago we started thinking more and more about the latter route.…
(2 Mar 2026) SSP’s polling initiative, Pulse Check, is a series of short, focused polls designed to track trends and challenges in real time. The second poll in the series, “Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications in 2026,” set out to understand how professionals across the scholarly communications ecosystem are assessing the industry’s economic resilience in the…
(5 Dec 2025) In early November, STM CEO Caroline Sutton spent several days in Tokyo meeting with funders, government leaders, research agencies, and publishing groups — alongside delegates from STM’s Japan Chapter. As in last year’s visit, the conversations were productive, wide-ranging, and grounded in strong local partnerships. And while open science dominated the agenda in 2024, this year…
(27 Nov 2025) This report presents a brief overview of the socio-political landscape for scholarly communications and describes some of the major forces that could significantly impact the repository ecosystem in the coming years. The aim is to provide COAR members with a synopsis of current trends that may affect repositories as well as to inform…
(30 Mar 2023) To be an open researcher is more than simply openly sharing research papers. Marcel Bogers and Ian McCarthy draw on their research on open practices in business research to outline four ways of leveraging social media to be more ‘open’ as a researcher, the potential trade-offs this can entail, and how it can help…
(10 Nov 2022) Beset by bugs, shorn of around half of its staff and with an idiosyncratic new owner who is changing the rules on a whim, Twitter is turning from a must-use social-media platform into one that many people, including scientists, are becoming wary of. A raft of other social-networking platforms are cropping up in its…
(20 Jul 2021) The latest Renew Consultants research was carried out with the support of leading publishers and other organisations involved in scholarly communications and attracted responses from over 15,000 people working and studying across all sectors, subject disciplines, and regions. Headline results include: – In terms of overall trend, A&Is are still the…
(22 May 2020) Nature Index reviewed recent development on scholarly communication affected by the epidemic of COVID-19, including: Funding worries weigh down early-career researchers COVID-19 widens the gender gap in medical research Wikipedia favours peer-reviewed research Australian researchers face job cuts due to coronavirus shut-down How could coronavirus change academic careers? Preprint servers enhance screening…
(16 Oct 2019) Preprint servers have been growing explosively over the last ten years: over 60 platforms are currently available worldwide, and the sharing of research outputs prior to formal peer-review and publication is increasing in popularity. A guest post recently published on Scholarly Kitchen considers how publishers are responding to recent growth in the uptake…
(8 Oct 2019) Blogs and blogging are an important medium for communication. In the Anglophone world they have taken on a particular significance within the academic community as a medium for discussing cross cutting issues that affect the universities sector. In this post Santosh C. Hulagabali argues that in Asia and India in particular, the…