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Guest Post — Love in the Time of COVID: Lessons in Change Management and Hope...

Lily Garcia Walton discusses Silverchair's ongoing adaptation of working spaces and policies as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

  • By Lily Garcia Walton
  • Apr 6, 2022
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A New Twist on a Publishing Scam: Ghost-authoring Book Reviews for Fun and Profit

In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 5, 2022
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Welcoming Dianndra Roberts as The Scholarly Kitchen’s DEIA Associate Editor

Dianndra Roberts is joining The Scholarly Kitchen as the Associate Editor focusing on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • Apr 4, 2022
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Deep Storage: An Archive in a Salt Mine

Continuing our fascination with unique libraries, today we look at an archive in an active salt mine.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 1, 2022
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What an Urban Historian and a Physicist Can Tell Us About Building Community…

Meet the keynote speakers for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Mar 31, 2022
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Guest Post: A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?

Mark Hahnel looks at the progress that’s been made toward open research data — what’s been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?

  • By Mark Hahnel
  • Mar 30, 2022
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Community, Inclusivity, Adaptability, and Integrity  

In today’s post, Alice Meadows talks to Randy Townsend and Miranda Walker about the recent work they led to identify and articulate SSP’s core values, and how they’ll be embedded in the society’s future activities.

  • By Alice Meadows, Randy Townsend, Miranda Walker
  • Mar 29, 2022
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Guest Post – New Winds from the Latin American Scientific Publishing Community

Ana Heredia and Eloisa Viggiani discuss the founding of the Latin American Association of Scientific Editors, and focus on the use of metrics and the role of the region’s scientific journals in research evaluation.

  • By Ana Heredia, Eloisa Viggiani
  • Mar 28, 2022
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Evo-Devo, the A Capella Version

A Friday video, as the evolutionary conservation of pattern formation is set to music.

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 25, 2022
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Fraud and Peer Review: An Interview with Melinda Baldwin

Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2022
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Ask the Chefs: How Do You Feel About In-person Conferences — Including SSP?

Today we ask the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs how they’re feeling about in-person conferences in general, and the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting in particular.

  • By Alice Meadows, Tim Vines, Roger C. Schonfeld, Robert Harington, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Lettie Y. Conrad, Alison Mudditt, Judy Luther
  • Mar 23, 2022
  • 13 Comments

Ask the Community: The 2022 SSP Annual Meeting

Registration is open for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting. We asked the community, “What are you most looking forward to about attending the SSP Annual Meeting in person?”

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Mar 22, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post – Cybersecurity and Academic Libraries: Findings from a Recent Survey

Susie Winter reviews recent data on cybersecurity for academic libraries, as well as a survey of awareness and attitudes toward best practices among librarians.

  • By Susie Winter
  • Mar 21, 2022
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“Common Knowledge” and How False Facts Become Entrenched

Some scientific “urban legends” get debunked in today’s video. How does incorrect “common knowledge” become established?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 18, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Revisiting: Historians in Historic Times

We are always living through history. For historians, though, the current moment is always a culmination. Revisiting a post from January 2021 in preparation for a series.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Mar 17, 2022
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Retroactively Open: Elsevier Backflips for NERL Agreement

In a novel license agreement, Elsevier agrees to open backfile content from a consortium of elite private institutions. Will other libraries and publishers follow this model?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Mar 16, 2022
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"In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else." These scams can only flourish because academics are will to play the game! https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/04/05/a-new-twist-on-a-publishing-scam-ghost-authoring-book-reviews-for-fun-and-profit/ via @scholarlykitchn

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Are libraries "neutral"? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/03/03/libraries-and-the-contested-terrain-of-neutrality/ via @scholarlykitchn

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