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Archives: October 2020

Halloween’s Greetings

A gorgeous version of a ghost song for your Halloween listening.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 30, 2020
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Meet the new SSP Board Members

Emma Brink interviews Meredith Adinolfi, Emilie Delquie, Gabe Harp, and Sai Konda, the newest members of the Society for Scholarly Publishing Board of Directors.

  • By Emma Brink
  • Oct 29, 2020
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

In Search of Equity and Justice: Reimagining Scholarly Communication

If we are truly committed to a more equitable and resilient system of scholarly communication, we need to look beyond diversity programs and understand how this watershed moment requires us to reexamine everything, including strategy and business models.

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Oct 28, 2020
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Video is here. Time to embrace it.

Violaine Iglesias explains how scholarly publishers can embrace and optimize the use of video in publications.

  • By Violaine Iglesias
  • Oct 27, 2020
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Making the Most Out of Virtual Events: The Publisher as Vendor

Organizations are having to shift in person events to virtual for the foreseeable future. In this post, author Colleen Scollans discusses the steps we can take to make virtual events a marketers dream.

  • By Colleen Scollans
  • Oct 26, 2020
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

A Review of Amazon’s Alexa — From 1988

A look back at how Amazon’s Alexa service might have worked using state of the art 1988 technology.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 23, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research? – Part 2

In support of Open Access Week, we asked our community how we can achieve equitable participation in Open Research. Today, part 2. Come share your views!

  • By Ann Michael, Jasmine Wallace, Judy Luther
  • Oct 22, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research?

In support of Open Access Week, we asked our community how we can achieve equitable participation in Open Research. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow. Come share your views!

  • By Ann Michael, Alison Mudditt, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Getting Beyond Bias to Make the Career Impact You Desire: An Interview with Scismic’s Elizabeth Wu and Danika Khong

An interview with Elizabeth Wu and Danika Khong about their new tool to help reduce bias and increase fit for research careers.

  • By Jasmine Wallace
  • Oct 20, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Are Publishers Learning from Their Mistakes?

Publishers have retracted more than 20 COVID-related papers. Are they learning from their mistakes and fixing process failures?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 19, 2020
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

A Fast Trip Through 13 Centuries of English

Planning a trip back through time? Have you thought about whether you’ll be able to understand what anyone is saying?

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 16, 2020
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Parallel Peer Review at Cell Press: An Interview with Deborah Sweet

Cell Press announces an experiment with parallel peer review.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Oct 15, 2020
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Creative Commons in Court

Are US federal courts enforcing Creative Commons licenses? Yes, but not as copyright holders may hope.

  • By Melody Herr
  • Oct 14, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Elsevier Has Deployed an End-user Tracking Tool for Security. Should Users Be Concerned About Their Privacy?

Should library patrons be concerned about how Elsevier uses ThreatMetrix and how it tracks users? It’s complicated.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 13, 2020
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Raising Children at the (Literal) Top of an Academic Institution

A look at some unexpected campus residents of UC Berkeley.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 9, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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