This week, we signpost an upcoming webinar from Taylor & Francis that will explore innovations in PLS, and we listen to the latest SSP Early Career Development Podcast about the role of university presses. We learn about an update to Altmetric that allows users to monitor mentions of research in clinical guidelines. We also examine a report from MIT Press that stresses the need for of evidence-based open research policy, and we explore the absence of millions of articles from digital archives. Finally, we read about the risk of a new form of predatory publishing.
To engage with:
Exploring innovations in PLS via Taylor & Francis
Are you up to date with the latest research and recommendations on plain language summaries (PLS)? Join Kelly Soldavin (Senior Editor at Taylor & Francis), Rachel Jenkins (Head of PLS at Taylor & Francis) and Paolo Lombardi (Director of Artificial Intelligence Innovation at Taylor & Francis) on Thursday 5 December as they explore the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to develop PLS, how to make PLS accessible and discoverable, and guidance on requesting permission to produce standalone plain language summaries of publications.
To listen to:
University presses via The Scholarly Kitchen | 27-minute listen
In this latest episode of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Vice President of Publishing Operations at Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Senior Director of Operations, Dimensions Corporate at Digital Science) explore the roles of university presses in scholarly publishing with Dawn Durante (Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director of The University of North Carolina Press). Dawn recounts her career path from intern to Editorial Director and explores how the mission-driven approach of university presses sets them apart from for-profit publishers.
To read:
Tracking clinical impact with Altmetric via Altmetric | 1-minute read
Altmetric – a service that tracks and analyses online attention to research – now monitors research referenced in clinical guidelines. The new attention source collates information from the World Health Organization (WHO), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and more to allow Altmetric users to assess the real-world influence of medical research.
The future of open research policy: an MIT Press report via MIT Press | 25-minute read
“We urgently need a scientific approach to crafting the future of research publishing,” concludes this report from MIT Press. In September 2024, experts from the scientific and scholarly publishing community attended a workshop in Washington, DC, USA titled Access to science & scholarship: building an evidence base to support the future of open research policy. Organized by MIT Press and funded by the US National Science Foundation, the workshop identified nine research questions that should be explored to build evidence-based open research policy.
Two million articles missing from digital archives via Nature | 5-minute read
A recent study by Martin Eve (Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and Research and Development Developer at Crossref) reveals that millions of research articles appear to be missing from major digital archives. This editorial calls on researchers, institutions and funders to take action to address the lack of global, robust and persistent archiving infrastructures.
A new strain of predatory publishers via Retraction Watch | 5-minute read
Science sleuths suspect a “new, more sophisticated” method of predatory publishing may be cloning the websites of reputable journals, including some published by Elsevier and Springer Nature. In this article, Ellie Kincaid (Editor at Retraction Watch) details the cause for concern and warns authors to be vigilant when submitting their manuscripts to journals that may be affected.
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