OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it permits researchers to perform bibliometric studies that can be reproduced in the community without licensing barriers. However, as OpenAlex is a rapidly evolving source and the data contained within is expanding and quickly changing, the question naturally arises as to the trustworthiness of its data. In this paper, the reference and metadata coverage within each database will be studied and compared with each other.

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Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and data analytics, today launches Scopus AI – a generative AI product to help researchers and research institutions get fast and accurate summaries and research insights that support collaboration and societal impact.

Scopus AI is based on Scopus’ trusted content from over 27,000 academic journals, from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide, with over 1.8 billion citations, and includes over 17 million author profiles. Scopus content is vetted by an independent board of world-renowned scientists and librarians who represent the major scientific disciplines.

The Scholarly Communication Handbook has been published by Facet Publishing. This guide explores how to evaluate the best place to publish academic research today. Considering publication types, open access and licensing options, as well as appropriate uses of research metrics and the benefits and setbacks of peer review. Providing a comprehensive overview of the knowledge required for understanding and navigating the scholarly communication landscape.

This analysis report follows up on the release of a scoping paper in 2022, an overview of what the authors saw as being a vibrant ecosystem of so-called alternative open access publishing platforms. In September 2023, Knowledge Exchange published a report which shares the first results from a survey. The report gives valuable and interesting insight into the world of alternative publishing platforms. This study, the dataset that underpins it and the interactive visualisation tool reveal some interesting key findings.

Software and data citation are emerging best practices in scholarly communication. This article provides structured guidance to the academic publishing community on how to implement software and data citation in publishing workflows. These best practices support the verifiability and reproducibility of academic and scientific results, sharing and reuse of valuable data and software tools, and attribution to the creators of the software and data.

On October 30, the COAR Task Force on Supporting Multilingualism and non-English Content in Repositories published 15 recommended practices for repositories to support multilingual and non-English content in repositories.  The recommendations identify good practices for repository managers and repository software developers, and focus on the topics of metadata, multilingual keywords, user interfaces, formats, and licences that will improve the visibility, discovery and reuse of repository content in a variety of languages.

Sune Dueholm Müller, professor at the University of Oslo and editor-in-chief, reports his experience, also described in this article, of the hijacking of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems.

Hijacked journals are scam websites that impersonate legitimate journals and attempt to take over their brand. A list including hundreds of these fake sites can be found at the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. By stealing the brand, web domain, or the serial number used to identify a publication, cybercriminals try to lure researchers into paying for publications.

Read also the methods used to locate or confirm hijacked statuses of journals.