Mind the Gap: Gender Disparity in Scholarly Publishing Revisited
Image via Robert Donovan. One of the highlights of this year’s SSP conference for me was the opportunity to revisit some of the issues raised at last year’s Mind the…
Can You Coko? An Interview with Kristen Ratan of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
Kristen Ratan, known to many in the scholarly communications world, has been embarking on a new adventure of late. Together with Adam Hyde, she has launched the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation…
Why Persistent Identifiers Deserve Their Own Festival
To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, before joining ORCID last May, I didn’t know how much I didn’t know about persistent identifiers (aka PIDs). Now at least I know enough to know…
Annotations as Peer Review: An Interview with Maryann Martone of Hypothes.is
#PeerRevWk16 Almost exactly three years ago, The Scholarly Kitchen posted a podcast with Peter Brantley about the then relatively new start-up, Hypothes.is. Find out what the organization is up to…
#RecognizeReview
The Friday video this week is brought to you by the Peer Review Week 2016 planning committee. Learn why members of this group – publishers large and small, as well…
Mind the (Pay) Gap
Image via Mike Licht. This post was co-authored with Lauren Kane, COO of BioOne, who also contributed the analysis. It may not come as a surprise that the working title…
15 Things We Can Do To Stand Up For Science!
The threat to science and scholarship of Donald Trump’s election has been the subject of a number of excellent posts, both here on The Scholarly Kitchen and elsewhere. From removing…
The Global Gender Gap: Research and Researchers
Whether as writers, editors, publishers, or disseminators of science and scholarship, everyone working in scholarly communications can play a role in shining a light on the research we are responsible…
It Takes a Village: One Year of Journals Requiring ORCID iDs
Most, if not all, Scholarly Kitchen readers would probably agree that a strong and sustainable research infrastructure is important — if not essential — to scholarly communication. Robust and appropriate…
The Future of Peer Review
Timed perfectly to coincide with today’s official launch of this year’s Peer Review Week (hold the date: September 11-17, 2017), BioMedCentral and Digital Science yesterday published a report on “What…
Feel the FORCE(11): An Interview with Cameron Neylon
In the six or so years since it started, FORCE11 has become, as its name suggests, a major force in the scholarly communications world. Described variously as “a place to…
Do You Know About Yewno?
Artificial intelligence (AI) – already in use across a wide range of platforms and services, including Google and Facebook – is also starting to play a bigger role in scholarly…
What Does Transparent Peer Review Mean and Why is it Important?
The theme of this year’s Peer Review Week is transparency in peer review. Many peer review experts will be gathering in Chicago in September for the Peer Review Congress (PRC),…
Changing the Culture in Scholarly Communications
“All too often, leaders see cultural initiatives as a last resort, except for top-down exhortations to change… But cultural intervention can and should be an early priority—a way to clarify…
Much Ado About Metadata 2020!
Metadata – digital “data about data” – is arguably one of the most powerful tools available in scholarly communications. Good metadata enables discoverability and access, and (potentially) eliminates errors. But…