Visualizing Article Performance — Altmetrics Searches for Appropriate Display
The design and construction of article performance measures can reveal deeply held biases.
The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things…
Newly available material from Richard Feynman offers a joyous way to spend your Friday celebrating the wonder of the world.
When It Comes to Green OA, Nice Guys Finish Last
Green Open Access can lead to the cancellation of subscriptions to journals. The environment for OA, however, is full of nuance and resists easy characterization.
Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: If It Isn't Disruption, What Is It?
Three Scholarly Kitchen chefs talk about the uses and misuses of the term “disruption” in describing what’s going on in the scholarly publishing market.
Webinars, Webinars, Webinars — How Do We Evaluate This New and Increasingly Pervasive Option?
Webinars can serve many roles — B2B, B2C, promotion, education. As they proliferate, the special mix of work and benefit webinars represent will come under scrutiny, and your ability to plan well to grow in this area may be tested.
Online Information, Ebooks, and Moral Panic
Why do ebooks—and e-information generally—cause such teeth-grinding rage and rhetorical hysteria in some people?
Questions (and Answers) from the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Some new videos about scholarly publishing from the SSP. You may recognize a few familiar faces.
CHORUS Comes Into Focus
CHORUS (Clearinghouse for Open Research for the United States) comes from a coalition of scholarly journal publishers and is meant to steward a partnership with federal agencies to provide public access to papers emanating from research they fund. A recent […]
Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Peter Binfield on PeerJ
Peter Binfield talks about progress at PeerJ since the innovative OA journal’s launch, and where the journal is headed.
Quantitative Comments — Highlighting Some of the Math About Finances and Profits Contributed by Readers
Recent comments on a post about Gold OA in the UK dissected a lot of assertions we commonly see, and bear a closer reading.
Managing Two Companies at the Same Time
Many CEOs of publishing companies find themselves having to manage two companies: the established company and an in-house start-up that is designed to participate in a new paradigm based on digital media. Organizationally this is a very difficult situation to be in, but it is essential if a company is going to persist in the years ahead.
The Basics and History of Typography
A ten minute course in practical typography and a charming short film on its history. A great way to spend your Friday learning some valuable skills.
Join The Scholarly Kitchen for a Session at the Upcoming Publishing Business Conference & Expo
Join a group of Scholarly Kitchen “Chefs” for a session at the upcoming Publishing Business Conference & Expo.
Can You Copyright the Act of Curation? And What Constitutes Curation Anyway?
A music label sues a streaming service claiming copyright over playlists of certain tracks in a certain order. Is this level of curation really deserving of copyright protection?
Rolling Back Gold Open Access in the UK
The UK government’s Business, Innovation and Skills Committee issued a report this week that offers a harsh rebuke to the RCUK’s proposed plans to drive the adoption of Open Access (OA) publishing in scholarly journals.