Wow
New frontier in #PublisherValueAdd
You can't look at a BMC journal website unless you accept ads and the use of your personal data, or sign up for a paid Contentpass subscription
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Correction: this applies to SpringerMedicine dot com. At Springer dot com, I can still access it without accepting tracking.
1/ Last year #UNESCO reprinted 46 essays by Nobel laureates.
https://doi.org/10.54677/QIQR6670
If you follow me for news and comment on #OpenAccess and #ScholComm, I strongly recommend the 1996 essay by #JoshuaLederberg, "Electronic scientific publications: options for the future" (in the UNESCO collection at pp. 149-155). Lederberg was the 1958 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and wrote this essay just as researchers began using the internet and web for sharing research.
I post a few excerpts in the thread below.
h/t @hannaSH
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For the overwhelming majority of professional scholarly work, rejection should be the very, very last resort and a marker of communication failure:
"While rejections are expected and often unavoidable, the way decisions are communicated has significant implications for author trust and engagement. Clear, respectful and transparent communication can transform a rejection into a learning opportunity.
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2/ I have two interests here.
1. When a #book is in the #PublicDomain, we can and should make it #OpenAccess. Too often we're held back by uncertainty.
2. I'm collecting an offline list of easy and medium-difficulty #scholcomm jobs that #AI tools could do about as well as humans, or better, even if the results are sometimes flawed.
Many jobs like this are already discussed in the literature, such as reformatting citations to fit the style of a given journal, identifying suitable peer reviewers for a given paper, generating alt text for images, detecting self-citation in publications -- and so on, to keep a long list short.
Determining the #copyright status of a given book is an idea I haven't seen others mention, and I want to put it out for discussion.
1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.
I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.
But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.
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Since releasing the "Declaration to Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship" in mid-February, the #DefendResearch team has engaged with scholars and experts around the world who view the current attacks on academic freedom as existential threats and who believe that it is vital to
Big news from #arXiv:
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678/chief-executive-officer
1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization.
2. It's leaving #CornellU.
3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k.
Are you studying #ScholComm, #research dissemination or doing a research project in #DigitalHumanities in Canada?
#CoalitionPublica, an #Erudit + PKP project, is accepting #scholarship applications until April 19 2026, at 11:59 PM PT!
Learn more and apply: https://www.coalition-publi.ca/scholarship-program-call-for-applications-2026/
#Canada #CanadaResearch #CanadaScholComm #OpenAccess #HSS #AcademicChatter
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