The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to eradicate poverty and inequality, protect the planet, and ensure health, justice, and prosperity for all, emphasizing inclusivity. Within the realm of scholarly publishing, the panel ...

Laura Feetham-Walker, Reviewer Engagement Manager at IOP Publishing, recently won the Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Innovation award for invigorating the peer review process with the launch of the , a comprehensive ...

This report summarizes APE 2024 (Academic Publishing in Europe, 9–10 January 2024, Berlin, Germany), the 19th edition of the yearly conference bringing together stakeholders within the realm of scholarly publishing. This year’s conference, moderated by ...

This paper reports on the Dotcoms to Watch session at Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) 2024. Five out of the seven selected startups that gave a brief presentation in the session expand upon their talks and reflect on their participation. They are ...

Incentives for efforts expended in peer review remain controversial, as one of us [] reported at the recent APE Meeting in ...

For 200 years, collective scholarly knowledge was advanced by reporting new findings in the form of narrative text that is rich in logic, pinned to data, hedged with cautious nuance, and yielding novel claims. Authors' narratives evolved over the years ...

This paper is based upon a presentation at the APE conference 2023, during the ‘STM’s New Dotcoms to Watch session’ by CPO and Co-Founder Alejandro Garcia Garcia. It discussed the limitations of the existing format of published journal articles and the ...

This article is based on a session with the same title from the 2023 APE (Academic Publishing in Europe) conference, in which the authors discussed the challenges and opportunities for the scholarly communications community to improve trust in the ...

This paper is based on a presentation by Dustin Smith at the APE 2023 Conference. Publishers struggle to gain a single view of audiences. As a consequence, they extract insights from inconsistent data sources. A customer data platform (CDP) and natural ...

Peer review is under pressure. Without fair, transparent and efficient peer review we cannot ensure the right proposals get funded and the correct manuscripts get published. In the era of Open Access, which is driving an exponential increase in the ...

Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels is the German publishers and booksellers association. Sustainability and working towards achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are top priorities for the organization. This includes the aim of ...

This paper is based on a presentation from a panel discussion on Innovation, Technology and Infrastructure at the 2023 APE Conference. It provides an overview of the use, misuse and value of bibliometrics in research assessment, examines the responsible ...

This paper offers an overview of the conference presentation given by Judy Mielke, Founder of scientifyRESEARCH, at Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) 2023 in Berlin on January 11. ScientifyRESEARCH was honored to receive the 2nd place award in the “dot ...

This paper summarizes the 18th Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference: Berlin Re-Visited: Building Technological Support for Scholarship and Scientific Publishing, held as a hybrid event 10 and 11 January 2023, and organized by the Berlin ...

This paper is based upon a lightening talk that was given on February 14, 2023 at the 2023 NISO Plus conference. The presentation described the research for the creation of a white paper on the use of blockchain technology along the scientific research ...

This paper offers an overview of some of the highlights of the 2023 NISO Plus Annual Conference that was held virtually from February 14–February 16, 2023. This was the fourth such conference and the third to be held in a completely virtual format due to ...

his paper is based upon a lightning talk given at the NISO Plus conference on February 14, 2023 and it describes interlibrary Loan syste4m, Fulfillment, developed by the Equinox Open Library Initiative. A thriving resource-sharing consortium allows ...

This paper is based on a lightening talk given at the 2023 NISO Plus conference. The authors explore how research information management (RIM) workflows at universities are increasingly intersecting with library workflows, particularly regarding ...

This paper stresses the critical importance that data management plans actually be data management and sharing plans, that encourage data-sharing at the early stages of research; that indicate that data must be made as open as possible (and as closed as ...

Research data is essential to the production of research, and is increasingly made available in repositories for reuse and reproducing research. Data citations play a crucial role in connecting this data to journal articles, and also to acknowledge and ...