Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, The hottest topic of the moment is publishing integrity in a world being changed (for good and bad) by AI. This email follows a different format to normal. I’ve pulled together the key news stories and announcements that were published over the past month on this theme. I’ve excluded opinion pieces, otherwise this email would be much, much longer. The title and text that follow are extracts from the sources. None of the text is my own; my...
about 2 months ago • 10 min read
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, Here’s the gist of what’s happened in scholarly publishing in the past week. The full length version of Journalology will return later this month. Thank you to our sponsor, Digital Science Digital Science is excited to launch the Dimensions Author Check API — a powerful tool that enables publishers to evaluate researchers’ publication and collaboration histories in seconds, directly within existing editorial or submission systems.Built on...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, I haven’t sent you a newsletter in a while. Partly that’s because August tends to be a slow news month, but it’s also because I’ve been balancing work and family commitments while the kids are off school. In this issue of Journalology I’ve selected stories from the past month that are likely to have broad appeal and attempted to put them into context for you. If you've been away on holiday, hopefully this will help you to catch up on what...
about 2 months ago • 11 min read
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, I’m back from a week walking in the hills and I’ve just about caught up with the news wires. Here are five stories from the past fortnight that are likely to have broad appeal to this newsletter’s audience. In the future The Jist will be devoid of comments from me, but for now I just can’t help myself while the full length Journalology is on hold over the summer. News Scientific publishing needs urgent reform to retain trust in research...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, My family and I are heading off on holiday tomorrow and I haven’t packed yet, so this week’s newsletter follows the digest pattern of The Jist. There’s so much I’d like to say about the lead news story, but I should probably hold myself back and pack some socks instead. Anyway, here are the headlines. News NIH to crack down on excessive publisher fees for publicly funded research The current landscape of scholarly publishing presents...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, This week I’m trialling The Jist, which will be the free version of the newsletter when Journalology transitions to a paid subscription model later this summer. There’s no full-length Journalology this week. I’ve been using the time I saved to work on migrating Journalology to a new technology platform, which offers group subscriptions. It’s a fiddly process that’s taking some time to set up. If you would prefer to receive a digest of...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, On July 1 the new NIH open access policy will kick in, mandating the deposition of the author-accepted manuscript with no embargo. It’s not clear at this point how the major publishers will respond; there haven’t been any formal announcements, as far as I can tell. Perhaps they’re waiting until July 1 to update their policy pages. The best resource on publishers’ policies regarding green OA that I’ve found is hosted by the PennState...
4 months ago • 19 min read
Subscribe to newsletter Hello fellow journalologists, On Thursday I wrote to explain that (1) Journalology will soon become a paid subscription product and (2) I will start a separate, shorter, newsletter, called The Jist, that will be free to read. If you missed that announcement, you can catch up here. I received many replies to Thursday’s email, probably more than to all of the 120 newsletters combined. The responses were incredibly supportive and generally fell into two camps: “Good for...
4 months ago • 23 min read
Hello fellow journalologists, On Sunday some of you will receive the Journalology newsletter for the last time. Let me explain. Starting next week (i.e. in ~10 days’ time) there will be two versions of this newsletter: A paid newsletter (called Journalology) that follows a similar format to what you’ve been receiving up until now, containing links to all the news and opinion alongside my thoughts on what the stories mean (JB: you know, commentary like this). A free newsletter (called The...
4 months ago • 2 min read