This 2nd Edition of International Directory Organizations in Grey Literature (IDGL) includes the organization’s URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and its ROR (Research Organization Registry) ID. The ROR-ID record further contains other persistent identifiers such as the organization’s GRID (Global Research Identifier), ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier), Crossref Funder ID, and Wikidata. Organizations are listed under the country in which they reside and appear in alphabetical order based on their name.

In the early days of the pandemic, the Wellcome Foundation issued a statement calling for a global commitment to sharing of all scientific data and information pertaining to COVID-19 for the duration of the health crisis. The Research on Research Institute conducted a follow-up study to report on the success of that call to action. The full text of the report is worth a review and may be found here.

This chapter has been invited to appear in Predatory Practices in Scholarly Communication and Publishing: Causes, Forms, Implications, and Solutions, published by Routledge.

It presents a three-phase analysis of 521 journals that use the open source publishing platform Open Journal Systems (OJS) while appearing on Beall’s list of predatory publishers and journals and/or in Cabells Predatory Reports. The study revealed a misanalysis as “predatory”. PKP’s new technical strategy aims to verify and communicate standards adherence to the public. Work has begun on systems involving trade organizations, such ORCiD and Crossref, for authenticating journal practices. The goal is to provide a publicly accessible industry standard for more reliably assessing journal quality.

Scholarly publishing is in a state of change, and the centuries old model of traditional peer review-based publishing is under more pressure than ever to become faster and more open. Artificial intelligence is now supporting authors and publications alike by speeding up the publication process while helping to preserve quality with fewer human resources, and the tools can give journals competitive advantages for attracting authors. AI-based tools can be used in editorial processes and decision making in ways that support the often-overburdened humans who are responsible for them.

This article analyses the impact and visibility of scholarly journals in the humanities that are publishing in the national languages in Finland, Norway and Spain. Three types of publishers are considered: commercial publishers, scholarly society as publisher, and research organizations as publishers. Indicators of visibility and impact were obtained from Web of Science, SCOPUS, Google Metrics, Scimago Journal Rank and Journal Citation Report. The results obtained from the analysis of the humanities journals of the three countries allow to draw interesting conclusions broken down in terms of thematic category of publication, publisher type, open access distribution, citations in international databases, …

FORCE11 has historically drawn one of the more diverse communities in scholarly communication. Participants come from the publishing community and the library community, as well as systems suppliers and most importantly, researchers, with deep engagement from each community. Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), is reporting  on the conference held online in early December 2021.

COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) was launched in November 2019. Funded by Research England and Arcadia Fund, COPIM is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers who are building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to grow and flourish, according to the principles of scaling small. Put simply, library members pay a small annual fee to get DRM-free, unlimited access to a selection of a publisher’s backlist, with perpetual access after three years; the membership revenue is used by the publisher solely to produce new OA monographs. Read the first annual report and the second one.

Support Needs and Challenges for Universities

Ithaka S+R’s Research Support Services program explores current trends and support needs in academic research. This report provides a detailed account of how big data research is pursued in academic contexts, focusing on identifying typical methodologies, workflows, outputs, and challenges big data researchers face. Full details and actionable recommendations for stakeholders are offered in the body of the report, which offers guidance to universities, funders, and others interested in improving institutional capacities and fostering intellectual climates to better support big data research.

Conversations on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in scholarly publishing vary between the Global North and the Global South. The author provides his view about the three keys to real scholarly publishing inclusion. Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing shouldn’t only mean how the Global North is bringing the Global South closer. It should also mean how the best practices from the North are contextualized in the South to improve its publishing system, how the South is changing the North, and how the Southern countries are helping each other.

‘Global South’, a term frequently used on websites and in papers related to academic and ‘predatory’ publishing, may represent a form of unscholarly discrimination. Arguments are put forward as to why the current use of this term is geographically meaningless, since it implies countries in the southern hemisphere, whereas many of the entities in publishing that are referred to as being part of the Global South are in fact either on the equator or in the northern hemisphere. Therefore, academics, in writing about academic publishing, should cease using this broad, culturally insensitive, and geographically inaccurate term.