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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 1
FEBRUARY 2023 TM
ISSN: 1043-2094
“Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians”
The New World of Preprint Review Guest Edited by Michele Avissar-Whiting
(Program Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) Begins on Page 14
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THIS ISSUE: The New World of Preprint Review......................................... 14 PeerRef and the Future of Preprint Peer Review................ 16 Preprints Mean Peer Review Can Be Reimagined as it Should Always Have Been....... 19 Tackling Bias and Inequity in the Peer Review Process with PREreview................................... 21 ChemRxiv: Boiling Down Preprints in Chemistry............. 23 Preprint Peer Review: An Indexer’s Perspective............... 25 Op Ed — To Err is Human.......... 28
REGULAR COLUMNS
If Rumors Were Horses
H
appy February and March! Sorry the groundhog wasn’t more optimistic! It’s been warm here but I suppose we are in for a few more cold snaps! I was interested to read that even crayons have to retire! Only burnt sienna survived this round!
International Dateline It’s a new year for ATG and we are happy to announce that the creative, resourceful, and charismatic Sven Fund is joining ATG and the Charleston Conference as our international correspondent and advisor! “Innovation is one of the most debated issues in scholarly publishing. While some believe the industry is the avantgarde of innovation in publishing for sure, others despair of the slow pace of innovation and timidity of execution. There is agreement in one trueness though: Change in publishing is global, even more so than in librarianship. We believe that our appointment of Sven will help increase the expanding international scope of ATG and the Charleston Conference. Sven has more than 20 years experience in scholarly and trade publishing. He worked for Bertelsmann, SpringerNature, and De Gruyter. In 2015, Sven became the MD of Knowledge Unlatched, the innovator in Open Access that was acquired by Wiley at the end of 2021. At Wiley, Sven is responsible for the integration of KU and its products, like oable, into the continued on page 8
Bet You Missed It....................... 10 Reader’s Roundup..................... 31 Booklover.................................... 35 Legally Speaking....................... 36 And They Were There............... 38 Learning Belongs...................... 42 Let’s Get Technical..................... 44 Biz of Digital............................... 46 Optimizing Library Services.... 48 The Digital Toolbox.................. 50 Back Talk..................................... 68
INTERVIEWS Jeff Israely................................... 53 Emily West.................................. 56 John Thompson......................... 60
PROFILES ENCOURAGED People, Library and Company Profiles........................................ 64 Plus more...................... See inside