By Michele Avissar-Whiting (Program Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Against the Grain V35#1 On the first two days of December, I had the pleasure of visiting the ultramodern, ultra-picturesque Janelia Research Campus for the first time. The occasion:...
By Elliott Lumb (Founder CEO, PeerRef) Against the Grain V35#1 Introduction Academic publishing has been in a state of constant change over the past decade. Open Access has become the primary way to publish research. A growing number of national mandates...
By Stuart RF King (Research Culture Manager, eLife) ORCID: 0000-0003-4374-3587 Against the Grain V35#1 There are perhaps few topics in scholarly publishing that elicit such mixed opinions as peer review. Academics and publishers alike will...
By Daniela Saderi, Ph.D. (Co-founder and Director of PREreview, PREreview / fiscallysponsored by Code for Science & Society) <contact@prereview.org> Against the Grain V35#1 Preprints — versions of scholarly manuscripts that are freely published online by the...
By Ben Mudrak (Senior Product Manager, ChemRxiv) Against the GrainV35#1 The rapid sharing of research results before peer review, pioneered by arXiv decades ago, leads to an acceleration of progress by the global research community. While this acceleration...
By Michael Parkin (Data Scientist, Content, EMBL-EBI) Against the Grain V35#1 Europe PMC is an open database of life science literature from trusted sources around the globe. The resource is developed by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and...
Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced Citing this NISO press release Library Technology Guides reports that "Amigos Library Services and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards...
Amigos NISO consortium agreement announced Citing this NISO press release Library Technology Guides reports that "Amigos Library Services and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards...
Writers Guild is considering using AI Writing Tools GoodEReader reports that "The Writers Guild of America is proposing to allow its authors to employ ChatGPT and other AI tools to write scripts for television and movies. There are a few use cases that the Guild...
Sage wins OpenAthens UX award 2023 Library Technology Guides reports that "OpenAthens is proud to announce Sage as the winner of its Best publisher user experience (UX) award 2023. Sage was declared the winner at OpenAthens' annual online Access Lab event on Monday 20...
Liaison Librarian for Science and Engineering Carnegie Mellon University: Libraries Location Pittsburgh, PA Open Date Feb 08, 2023 Description The University Libraries invites applications from enthusiastic forward-looking candidates for the faculty position of...
