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Peer Review, a Critical Step in Scholarly & Scientific Publishing

Scientific peer review may be thought of as something a lot like the QA component of the software development process – that is, it is essentially the QA step for the production of high-quality articles which are published in high quality journals.

21 September 2021

By Dave Davis

Constitution Day and Copyright

Topic: Copyright Licensing & Permissions

Constitution Day is also the origin of US Federal copyright.

17 September 2021

By Catherine Zaller Rowland

Looking Forward with the RightsLink for Scientific Communications Platform

Topic: Open Access (OA)

RightsLink for Scientific Communications has made some significant strides in the past few years, especially in the way of developing and involving an ever-more extensive user community.

15 September 2021

By Andrew Robinson

Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators Part VI: YouTube

In the last post of this series, Dave Davis looks at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors.

9 September 2021

By Dave Davis

The Age of Disinformation: When You Can’t Trust What You See with Your Own Eyes

Topic: Information Management

There is no easy fix. What is clear is that we must act now. The future of our democracy depends upon it.

7 September 2021

By Jeff Joseph

Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators Part V: Creative Commons

Creative Commons – a non-profit organization operating since early 2001 – released its first licenses to the public in 2002.

2 September 2021

By Dave Davis

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Scholarly Reading – Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Heading

Topic: Information Management

With both researchers and the public looking at more information than ever before, it begs the question: has scholarly reading evolved in the age of electronic information, and what does it look like?

31 August 2021

By Elizabeth Wolf

CCC Now Offering Subscriptions to Wiley Content for Emerging Life Science and Biotech Companies Through RightFind

Topic: Pharma & Healthcare

RightFind customers that purchase the Wiley subscription get immediate access to Wiley’s extensive portfolio of authoritative journals directly in the RightFind workflow.

25 August 2021

By CCC

How Open Science Is Shaping Research Workflow

Topic: Open Access (OA)

Part business model, part ideology, Open Science emphasizes collaboration and transparency for research and research-related publications.

23 August 2021

By Christopher Kenneally

Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators

Topic: Copyright Licensing & Permissions

In this fourth post of the series, Dave Davis revisits the CASE Act, and, specifically, how the new Copyright Claims Board (CCB) might be of use to bloggers and podcasters in addressing circumstances where their copyrights appear to have been infringed.

19 August 2021

By Dave Davis