Alix Vance, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Alexandra (Alix) Vance is Executive Director of GeoScienceWorld (www.geoscienceworld.org). GSW is a nonprofit, digital research collaborative founded by pre-eminent global earth science societies. Alix is a member of the Editorial Board of Learned Publishing and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Previously, Alix founded Architrave Consulting and has served as Executive Director of Reference Publishing at CQ Press/SAGE and Vice President of Business Development at Ebook Library.

Articles by Alix Vance

Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Moving from Ideas to Action

Making the right choices and the best decisions are crucial to future success. The SSP IN meeting is gearing up to help you meet these challenges. Here’s how.

Top-Down and Bottom-Up: The Squeeze That Can Revolutionize (and Save) American Education

Education reform requires educators acting as media players and change agents. Can it happen?

Innovation & Longevity in Digital Publishing: Surfing the S-Curve

Innovation requires planning for adoption. Publishers can win in the long-haul by following maps others have drawn.

Smarter Metadata — Aiding Discovery in Next Generation E-book and E-journal Gateways

For scholars to excel in the information age, technology needs to learn to learn. Perhaps highly specialized humans can help.

Low-Hanging Fruit and the Re-Ordering of the Value Chain

As new business models emerge and funding sources change, can professional societies and not-for-profits respond? Or will they keep their heads buried in the sand?

Alix's Pick for 2010: Higher Education — Turning a Painful Reality Into a Thriving Digital Business

Image via Wikipedia Rather than choosing a “best” of my own posts, I’ve taken a step back to examine what I’ve written this year, in search of an article or theme upon which to expand. Surveying my 2010 contributions, main […]

Higher Education: Turning a Painful Reality Into a Thriving Digital Business

As costs for higher education outstrip increases in federal and other grants, entrepreneurs — digital and otherwise — are entering the fray with innovative solutions.

Introducing “The Scholarly Tycoon” — Gaming for STM Publishers

Can game play approximate the scholarly publishing dynamic? Here’s a tongue-in-cheek attempt to look at it from the publisher’s POV.

Will You Be “IN” Next Week?

There’s still time to get “IN.”

Tackling the Data-Driven Funding Challenge — a New Skill for Nonprofit Managers

Nonprofit organizations are being asked to measure their social impact. Can they respond to these new challenges?

Leading Your Content to the Money — A New Equation for Selling Content to Consumers

Consumers have demonstrated a willingness to pay for targeted, virtual goods and services. Why are publishers still trying to foist low-value generalized content off to them?

The DISCLOSE Act: New Media, Old Politics, and the Fight for Public Data

Campaign financing, corporations, unions, the Supreme Court, political action committees, large corporate interests, and technology companies with deep pockets and a hunger for data — what more could you ask for?

Serious Games, Science Communication, and One Utopian Vision

Transitioning from an information provision industry to an information experience industry will require change. How can we achieve this large-scale shift to meet emerging customer expectations?

Web 2.0 Next: Companies Place Bets on Consumer Relationships and Collaboration

As Web 2.0 matures, new entrants are starting to find ways to extract value in innovative ways.

Data.gov: Selling the Government and Democratization of Information

Open data initiatives by many governments will change balance sheets for publishers who have shifted toward this revenue source. Will the social benefits emerge?