The Scholarly Kitchen
Archive for June 2010
Live Blogging the Food Fight
Today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time, tune in to this spot for real-time coverage of “The Scholarly Kitchen Live” at the SSP annual meeting. Continue reading
From a Production Industry to a Technology Industry
How can publishers maximize the value and reach of their content using new technologies? The ACS, Cell Press, and PubGet offer their solutions. Continue reading
Lessons Learned and Lessons Learning: STM Stalwarts Reflect on Career Paths and Making Choices
In an industry where energy, youth, and innovation are often valued over experience, what can be learned from a panel of wizened members of the publishing industry? Continue reading
In Search of Sustainability: Business Models in Publishing
Experimentation and choice are key to finding long-term sustainability. Continue reading
Applications: The Future of Science Communication?
“Building apps is not all unicorns and rainbows.” Publishers should take a practical, iterative, and collaborative approach to delivering content. Continue reading
Kahle: Distributed Services a Solution to Monopoly Control
“Scholarly publishing is too important to be monopolized!” Solution to digitization is decentralized commerce. Continue reading
Brewster Kahle: Making Lending and Vending Work for Publishers, Librarians, and Users
Brewster Kahle kicks off the SSP Annual Meeting with a talk about storage, scanning, lending, and vending. But he also acknowledges that not everything needs to be saved. Continue reading
Umpiring and Peer-Review: Why a Perfect Game Is Still a Perfect Game
When clearly observable facts are ignored and post-hoc analysis abandoned, great achievements can be undercut by injustices. Continue reading
Arguing Against Links: Are They Distracting, Counterproductive, and Anti-Intellectual?
Is there a good case against linking? Or are links just an updated version of an old idea? Continue reading
Academic Incentives Gone Awry: Why Junk Persists in the Scientific Literature
The system of scientific publication is broken, with rewards cynically exploited by many players while science fills with more and more garbage. How can we fix this? Continue reading
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