Peer review has always been an important, behind-the scenes piece of the publication puzzle. An annual week to celebrate and explore its complexities is well deserved! A couple of decades ago, academic and scientific peer review looked much different from today....
Trends in global research pointed to a more open research environment in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, partially due to a push for collaboration among countries and scientists (on the part of organizations such as the World Health Organization),...
With the push toward increased transparency and open access continuing to grow in the scholarly publishing industry, the issue of open peer review is gaining more and more traction. That’s not to say that open peer review is a new concept. Open peer review has been...
In the publishing industry, perhaps the only issue that is talked about more than COVID-19 is Plan S. I’ll spare everyone a recap of Plan S (but we’ve written about it here and discussed it extensively here), but the ISMTE virtual conference held in August included a...
There have been many changes in the scholarly publishing world in recent years. The issue of open access and transparency has come to the forefront of publishing discussions, and there’s no denying that it is one of the most important topics facing the industry in...
