This report is the main outcome of a study commissioned by Knowledge Exchange (KE). The study was aimed at investigating “Risks and trust in pursuit of a well functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research”. The investigation set out to analyse the current state of the Persistent Identifier (PID) landscape in the six Knowledge Exchange partner countries and beyond, taking emerging PIDs particularly into account and examining the roles of relevant stakeholders as PID service providers, higher education institutions, researchers, publishers and national libraries. The report examines the PID landscape and provides a detailed look at what can go wrong with an unreliable PID service. In addition, a series of recommendations aimed at each stakeholder group are presented.

The Nobel Foundation and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences are organising the second Nobel Prize Summit: Truth, Trust and Hope. They will convene Nobel Prize laureates and other experts, information technology and business leaders, policymakers, journalists, educators, and youth from around the world to engage in constructive dialogue on actively combating the spread of mis- and disinformation, share evidence-based knowledge and global experiences, and help restore trust and confidence in science, institutions and systems of society.

This post is a recap of the recent SSP webinar, Ask the Experts: AI in Publishing, held on 6 October 2022.

There are numerous conferences, workshops, and keynotes about how or whether techniques developed under the moniker ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) can support (or ruin!) scholarly publishing (not to mention two recent Scholarly Kitchen posts on ChatGPT and the issues it presents). But what is actually meant by AI, according to people who do this for a living? How, precisely, can this mysterious set of technologies help or harm scholarly publishing, and what are some current trends? What are the risks of AI, and what should we look out for?

A journal article dataset has been developed with metadata of articles by France-based authors in the period 2013-2020. The purpose of this dataset was to form a basis for the retrospective and prospective analyses of the total costs of APCs paid by French institutions. This article presents the main results of the retrospective analysis of the dataset regarding the numbers of APC-paid articles with a France-based corresponding author.

En los últimos años se ha observado una proliferación de revistas fraudulentas, en algunos casos asociadas a congresos de la misma naturaleza. Los autores de estas prácticas ilegítimas han desarrollado una extraordinaria capacidad para estafar a autores y lectores.
Latindex viene trabajando en este tema desde hace un tiempo y ha elaborado distintos materiales de difusión. Aquí está la segunda versión de la Guía para editores Identificación y tratamiento de revistas espurias en Latindex.

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Otros recursos de interés: Revistas confiables vs. revistas espurias

The Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication are an expansion of C4DISC’s Toolkits for Equity project. They came together due to the growing need for more comprehensive and global guidelines to help authors, editors, and reviewers recognize the use of language and images that are inclusive and culturally sensitive. As the Guidelines will be updated annually, the entire scholarly publishing community may help grow and improve them over time by suggesting new references, recommendations, and resources.

The author of this post compares two different opinions about a trend resulting in increasing standardisation of journal articles. Drawing on a recent survey of forty years of research papers in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and interviews with authors, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner and his team observe an increasing homogenisation of published work. Weighing up the pros and cons of this development, they discuss whether it has enhanced or limited intellectual innovations in STS. On the contrary, Kaveh Bazargan argued, in a presentation at the NISO Conference in 2022, that using standard technology, notably XML, can increase standardization and as a result promote open science.

Le Groupe de travail sur les données bibliométriques (GT-Bibliométrie) du réseau de l’Université du Québec a mis récemment en ligne le Carrefour bibliométrie. Il s’adresse à toute personne intéressée par cette pratique qui sert à évaluer l’impact des communications scientifiques. Ce guide permettra aux chercheurs et aux auteurs de répondre à leurs questions : Dans quelle revue devrais-je publier? Ma recherche a-t-elle une influence dans la communauté? Quels seraient mes collaborateurs potentiels?  Enfin, le Carrefour intègre un Guide des bonnes pratiques en bibliométrie, utilisable en version dynamique Web ou en version statique PDF.

The Predator Effect is the first book to chart the rise and impact of deceptive publishing. The book looks at history, development and impact of predatory journals, putting their rise in context of wider issues such as open access and publication ethics. By shining a light on the murky world of predatory journals, readers will learn how to identify and avoid them in their activities – benefiting their own work and research. Download the book (open access).