What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing
After becoming a Scholarly Kitchen Chef back in July 2019, I have never stopped being amazed by the numerous dynamic issues and developments that scholarly publishing is dealing with. As...
With Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision, it’s time for a look back at Activision’s roots, and the company that spawned it, Atari.
Justin Alexander from ITHAKA discusses effective ways to continuously ensure that media meets accessibility requirements.
Minhaj Rais looks at possible solutions for beneficial data mining activities that don’t infringe on user privacy.
Does today’s news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar?
If you think it’s been cold where you live this week, take a look at Yakutsk.
A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next’. It is a period of transition, uncertainty, and multiple paths forward. The first wave of an open access transition is upon us, driven by the APC model, moving us to favor quantity over quality, and resulting in massive consolidation in many areas of the market. What comes next?
In light of the recent anniversary of the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we revisit Rick Anderson’s post on how journalists flag unsupported claims and blatant falsehoods, and whether preprint platforms should do the same.
There is value in exploring the concept of different perspectives on open access in order to begin to develop a “unified approach to open”.
This is where innovation happens, not among the gods on Mount Olympus but in small, tangible ways where people go about their lives and try to improve them a little bit at a time. We all work together, unknowingly, making things better, faster, cheaper.
As user interfaces change, language evolves….
Episode 9 of the SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast discusses what libraries mean to the scholarly communications ecosystem.
Members of the OCLC Research Team discuss their project examining changes to library work, collections, and engagement experiences and how they will lead to the future of libraries.
More about books about libraries and librarians, with a compilation of suggested readings.
2021 was a year of rapid change in our community. Here, a look at the numbers for The Scholarly Kitchen for the past 365 days.
Congratulations on making it mostly through the second straight year of March, 2020.