Alix Vance

Alexandra (Alix) Vance is Executive Director of GeoScienceWorld. She has been President of Architrave Consulting, Chief Operating Officer at The Center for Education Reform, Executive Director of Reference Publishing at CQ Press, and Vice President of Business Development at Ebook Library. She serves on the Editorial Board of Learned Publishing and has been a member of the Board of Directors of The Society for Scholarly Publishing and author of The Scholarly Kitchen. She is a painter, social worker, and mother of two.
Alix Vance has written 27 posts for The Scholarly Kitchen

Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Moving from Ideas to Action

Making the right choices and the best decisions are crucial to future success. The SSP IN meeting is gearing up to help you meet these challenges. Here’s how. Continue reading »

Top-Down and Bottom-Up: The Squeeze That Can Revolutionize (and Save) American Education

Education reform requires educators acting as media players and change agents. Can it happen? Continue reading »

Innovation & Longevity in Digital Publishing: Surfing the S-Curve

Innovation requires planning for adoption. Publishers can win in the long-haul by following maps others have drawn. Continue reading »

Smarter Metadata — Aiding Discovery in Next Generation E-book and E-journal Gateways

For scholars to excel in the information age, technology needs to learn to learn. Perhaps highly specialized humans can help. Continue reading »

Low-Hanging Fruit and the Re-Ordering of the Value Chain

As new business models emerge and funding sources change, can professional societies and not-for-profits respond? Or will they keep their heads buried in the sand? Continue reading »

Alix’s Pick for 2010: Higher Education — Turning a Painful Reality Into a Thriving Digital Business

Image via Wikipedia Rather than choosing a “best” of my own posts, I’ve taken a step back to examine what I’ve written this year, in search of an article or theme upon which to expand. Surveying my 2010 contributions, main themes were innovation and new product creation — what’s next, who’s doing it, and how … Continue reading »

Higher Education: Turning a Painful Reality Into a Thriving Digital Business

As costs for higher education outstrip increases in federal and other grants, entrepreneurs — digital and otherwise — are entering the fray with innovative solutions. Continue reading »

Introducing “The Scholarly Tycoon” — Gaming for STM Publishers

Can game play approximate the scholarly publishing dynamic? Here’s a tongue-in-cheek attempt to look at it from the publisher’s POV. Continue reading »

Will You Be “IN” Next Week?

There’s still time to get “IN.” Continue reading »

Tackling the Data-Driven Funding Challenge — a New Skill for Nonprofit Managers

Nonprofit organizations are being asked to measure their social impact. Can they respond to these new challenges? Continue reading »

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