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A 4th of July Like No Other

Happy 4th of July, or at least as happy as one can be these days.

Guest Post — Leveraging Technology Partnerships in Times of Crisis

Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen discusses a new Silverchair report on how publishers are leveraging technology partnerships to adapt to the pandemic crisis.

Guest Post — Marketing in Times of Disruption (and How to Avoid a #marketingfail)

Collen Scollans looks at effective marketing strategies during disruptive times.

Ask The Interns: What Is The Value Of Internships?

Have you benefited from an internship (giving or receiving!)? This month we talk to interns and internship managers to hear what value internships have brought to them and the industry.

The UK National PID Consortium: A Pathway to Increased Adoption

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are an essential part of the open research infrastructure, but need widespread adoption to be effective. Learn about Jisc’s plans to increase adoption through a national PID consortium in this post by Alice Meadows.

Three Pulitzer Prize Winners Discuss Racism, Slavery, and Resistance in American History

A fascinating conversation among important authors about racism, history, and our current moment.

Guest Post — Navigating Your Career in Publishing: Introducing the SSP Professional Skills Map

The Professional Skills Map, initiated by the SSP Career Development Committee aims to guide scholarly publishing professionals across industries and career levels in recognizing their personal strengths and interpersonal and technical skills, and then map those skill sets to fitting roles across the industry, empowering them to advance in their current roles and explore potential career paths they may not have previously considered.

How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture: An interview with Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science

In this interview Robert Harington asks Daniel Hook (CEO of Digital Science and co-author of the new Digital Science report. How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture) about his views on fundamental shifts in research culture as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

[Virtual] Conference Season Is Here: Are you prepared?

This year’s conference season will look a lot different than last year’s. Here are some tips to getting the most out of attending a virtual conference.

Equity in Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with the Workplace Equity Project

The findings of the Workplace Equity Project’s 2018 survey have recently been published as a peer-reviewed article in Learned Publishing – learn more in this interview with WEP founders Susan Spilka, Simone Taylor, and Jeri Wachter

Happy Juneteenth!

Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate the oldest national commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Let us all continue to learn what we must learn, do what we must do, so that our nation can be what we want it to be.

Revisiting — On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing

We revisit two posts from 2018. These powerful testimonies, by people of color, about their experience of racism in scholarly publishing, clearly show that we have “a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do” to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry.