Roger Schonfeld

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The special issue, Networking Networks: A Festschrift in Honor of Clifford Lynch, guest edited by Joan K. Lippincott, is available as an open access supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy via Project Muse 📔 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55108

We are grateful to all who made this tribute possible!

Making access work in scholarly publishing - Research Information Tracy Gardner reviews and celebrates five years of GetFTR’s cross-industry collaboration, interviewing the founding academic publishers

"Schonfeld mapped out the fragmented and frustrating researcher experience – bouncing between discovery tools, re-authenticating, and often hitting paywalls despite entitled access. 'This talk really opened our eyes,' said Todd Toler from Wiley." 2/ www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

Making access work in scholarly publishing - Research Information Tracy Gardner reviews and celebrates five years of GetFTR’s cross-industry collaboration, interviewing the founding academic publishers

"The original motivation for GetFTR came in response to a stark presentation by Roger Schonfeld at the Frankfurt STM meeting in 2015..." 1/ www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.

Shared infrastructure must activate the benefits of cross-institutional scale in ways that preserve and advance academic values without sacrificing innovation and agility. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/18/r...

Loved this! Shared infrastructure is the quiet hero of trustworthy research. JSTOR has set such a strong example, curious to see what’s next! What’s one collection you think deserves more spotlight right now?

As @rschon.bsky.social takes on a role at @jstor.bsky.social Digital Stewardship Services, he reflects on 20 years of #research on libraries, scholarly communication, and distinctive collections at Ithaka S+R.

Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.

Insightful @rschon.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social this am on shared infrastructure-- looking back at JSTOR projects and what's ahead. So impt as distinctive collections become ever more valuable in a world of questionable content. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/18/r...

All Grown Up: JSTOR Turns Thirty - JSTOR Daily What started out as an experiment in digitizing under-used scholarship blossomed into an invaluable online educational resource for students and faculty alike.

🎉 We turn 30 this year! Join the conversation with longtime ITHAKA team member @rschon.bsky.social—recently named Managing Director of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—as he reflects on JSTOR’s journey from its beginnings to today and what lies ahead on @jstordaily.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kNJX5P

Red graphic with white text that reads: “News. Roger Schonfeld named managing director of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services.” The JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services logo appears in the top left corner.

Roger Schonfeld (@rschon.bsky.social) has long guided libraries, archives, & museums through change. We're proud to share he's now managing director of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services.

Please join us in extending our warmest congratulations and gratitude!

Learn more: bit.ly/45xWXHD

Thanks so much! Let's catch up soon?

Libraries told us the challenges in digital collection stewardship—so we built a solution with our community.

Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services:
A cloud-based platform integrating processing, digital asset management, preservation, and access.

Read the announcement: bit.ly/4cjfr00

Thanks to @ithakasr.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social for their work on these important issues.

Preserving the past, building the future—together: Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is a new platform designed to help libraries and archives scale their preservation efforts through a seamless, mission-aligned workflow. Built in collaboration with ...

Read more about JSTOR Stewardship in this blogpost from our president, Kevin Guthrie:
about.jstor.org/blog/preserv... 3/

Built in collaboration with the library and archives community, JSTOR Stewardship integrates digital asset management, long-term preservation, powered by Portico, and a first-of-its-kind, AI-assisted collections processing tool, all within a seamless, cloud-hosted platform. 2/

Today, my colleagues and I at @ithaka-org.bsky.social are announcing the launch of @jstor.bsky.social Digital Stewardship Services -- a set of tools designed for libraries and archives to process and make discoverable the vast and growing collections that remain hidden from view. 1/

A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs? Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.

"Ultimately, the transition beyond single title purchase models for ebooks seems to be picking up, suggesting a sort of second digital transformation for the monograph..."
@rschon.bsky.social

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A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs? Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.

A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs? - great piece by @rschon.bsky.social via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/19/s...

Molecular Connections Buys Morressier Molecular Connections has purchased Morressier. Analysis from Roger C. Schonfeld.

Today, Molecular Connections announced that it has purchased Morressier. My analysis is in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social this morning. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/29/m...

Opinion | The Long Shadow of Fraud in Alzheimer’s Research (Gift Article) Fraud in research needs to end.

Constructive and disturbing reflections about the extent of fraud and misconduct in the Alzheimer's field, which has surely slowed progress to treatment and prevention, at enormous human cost. Science needs to be trustworthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Does Altering A Dataset Merit Retraction? - The Scholarly Kitchen Self-archiving on personal sites is perfectly permitted under many journal data policies. But what happens when an author alters the underlying data?

Phil Davis's post in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today makes the point that having a vague and unenforced data availability policy is perhaps worse than having no policy at all. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/17/d...

Shout out and gratitude to @rouhiroo.bsky.social for tweeting (skying?) #APE2025 - thank you!

@rschon.bsky.social "we're not going to talk article atomization -- separating all the relevant bits and making them FAIR. Nothing is inevitable just bc it's possible -- discussion will focus on focus that could drive change/stability" #APE2025

I fear that publishers are not able to give enough focus to ensuring trust and integrity in the scientific record, nor are they prepared to incorporate research security policy implications adequately into product strategy. #APE2025 #APE25

Global Science and the China Split - Ithaka S+R The practice of science has always been a fundamentally international activity. Even during periods of substantial geopolitical splits—such as the Cold

I completely agree and am happy that she emphasized the importance of research security, well beyond research integrity and in ways that could complicate openness, which I have been tracking as a critical policy issue since 2020. sr.ithaka.org/publications...

Sutton described 2023 as being the year of open research and noted the shift to 2024, which was the year of research security, on the mind of every policymaker she encountered.

Caroline Sutton, STM Association CEO, gave the opening keynote here at Academic Publishing in Europe. She spoke about key strategic, policy, and tech developments from the past twenty years and what is coming next for scholarly publishing.

Over 100 German Universities Partner with MDPI in New National Agreement More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI. The publication agreement negotiated...

"More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI... The agreement includes substantial discounts on ... APCs [and] and a flat-fee model that enables institutions to precisely plan expenses" www.mdpi.com/about/announ...

Big news and more market consolidation, Sage Acquires the Scientific and Medical Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. home.liebertpub.com/news/sage-ac...

Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.

Scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train LLMs.

For @natureportfolio.bsky.social, I wrote about a tracker that @rschon.bsky.social and team made to catalogue these deals—and some of the early trends they're observing.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Internet Archive Copyright Case Ends Without Supreme Court Review Officials at the nonprofit have decided against exercising their last option, an appeal to the Supreme Court, ending the closely-watched case over the scanning and lending of library books.

Internet Archive is not pursuing an appeal to the Supreme Court for Hachette. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...