Don’t Miss Your Chance to Participate in the SSP 2021 Annual Meeting!
Send in your proposals for sessions at the 2021 SSP Annual Meeting.
Thanks A Lot — A Quarantined Thanksgiving
A Thanksgiving song for a year that has left us broken-hearted.
Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read (and more!) During 2020, Part 2
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year (and more!) . Part 2.
Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read (and more!) During 2020, Part 1
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year (and more!). Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.
A World Elsewhere: PLOS’s Community Action Publishing Model
Can community-action publishing prove to be a viable alternative to market-based publishing?
Size Matters, or, Why Don’t We Have Gigantic Bacteria?
Why aren’t we overrun with gigantic bacteria? It’s a matter of diffusion.
Guest Post – Scientific output in the year of COVID — Please See Update
Christos Petrou looks at the impact on publication volumes, and what that might mean for next year.
Guest Post — What Does it Take to Move a Highly Successful Face-to-face Workshop into the Online World?
Mark Thomas discusses lessons learned in moving ALPSP’s face-to-face workshops into an online offerings.
Start-up Stories: Bringing DataSeer, A New Data-sharing Toolkit, From Idea to Launch
What does it take to research and develop a new product? Here we describe a recently launched service, DataSeer, and share top tips from its founder, Tim Vines.
The Curse of Reviewer 89: An Interview with Filestage’s Niklas Dorn
A look at Thieme’s “Select Crowd Review” approach to peer review.
Important Tardigrade Update
Breaking news — tardigrades are even more amazing than you thought.
Editorial Boards Benefit from Virtual Meetings
Journal offices are reporting greater participation and engagement in virtual editorial boards meetings; but providing networking opportunities at these meetings for volunteers might outweigh the benefits of virtual. Angela Cochran interviews colleagues on what makes these meetings a success and what we can do better.
Pandemic Post Roundup
Collecting some key posts on scholarly communications during the pandemic, as we enter into a new wave of infection.
The Role of Information in UN Sustainability Goals: Highlights from the 2020 ASIS&T Meeting
Information scholars address UN sustainability goals during virtual 2020 ASIS&T conference
What a Mangled Press Conference on COVID Can Tell Us About the Need for Good Data Storytelling
Last week the UK government COVID held a press briefing in an attempt to get the country behind new travel and social restrictions. What lessons can we learn from this bad example of how not to present evidence to support our positions?