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Alice Meadows

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn of DataCite

In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn, respectively Executive Director and Director of Community Engagement for DataCite.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 12, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Maria Gould of ROR

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Alice Meadows interviewed Director Maria Gould for today’s Kitchen Essentials post.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 30, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

#PIDfest – Bringing the PID Community Back Together Again!

There’s a new PID conference in town – PIDfest will take place at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague on June 11-13, 2024. Learn more in this post by Mary Beth Barilla and Alice Meadows, respectively,chairs of the Marketing & Communications and Programme Committees

  • By Alice Meadows, Mary Beth Barilla
  • Jan 24, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Chris Shillum of ORCID

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Alice Meadows asks Chris Shillum, Executive DIrector of ORCID, to share his thoughts about his career in research infrastructure

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 18, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 3

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 3 today.

  • By Karin Wulf, David Crotty, Angela Cochran, Alice Meadows
  • Dec 1, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Jennifer Gibson of Dryad

Today in Kitchen Essentials, Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director of the Dryad data repository.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Nov 22, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of PKP

In our next Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Nov 7, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Adam Hyde of Coko

Following on from yesterday’s introduction to Kitchen Essentials, today Alice Meadows interviews Adam Hyde of Coko for the first post in this new series.

  • By Alice Meadows, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Nov 1, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Introducing Kitchen Essentials — Interviews with the Scholarly Infrastructure Community

Today, Alice Meadows and Roger Schonfeld introduce a new interview series – Kitchen Essentials – featuring leaders of some of the key scholarly infrastructure organizations globally.

  • By Alice Meadows, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 31, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Embedding DEIA in Peer Review Processes: An Interview with SSP’s DEIA Outreach Subcommittee about their Upcoming Toolkit

Our week of posts celebrating Peer Review Week 2023 continues with an interview with Shaina Lange and Sue Harris of SSP’s DEIA Committee Outreach Subcommittee, about their work on a soon-to-be-published toolkit to build DEIA in peer review processes and editorial roles

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 27, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Reflections on Peer Review and the Humane Future of Publishing

In today’s post Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf kick off a week of posts to celebrate Peer Review Week 2023 with their thoughts on peer review and the future of publishing.

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 25, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask the Chefs: What is the Single Most Pressing Issue for the Future of Peer Review?

What is the single most pressing issue for the future of peer review in scholarly publishing? In advance of Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs.

  • By Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Hong Zhou, Avi Staiman, Alice Meadows, Haseeb Irfanullah, Angela Cochran, Charlie Rapple
  • Sep 22, 2023
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Inequities in Grant Funding Start Early: How Can We Address Them?

Inequities are rife in the research process, starting with the pre-award process. Based on feedback and input from researchers, research managers, and others a new report looks at the challenges and makes recommendations for how funders and institutions can address them.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 12, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Universal Access to Reliable Healthcare Information: An Interview with Neil Pakenham-Walsh of HIFA

Coinciding with the launch of Healthcare Information for All’s global community survey, Alice Meadows interviews their Global Coordinator, Neil Pakenham-Walsh, about his organization’s work to ensure equitable access to reliable healthcare information for everyone.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Aug 21, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

The ORCID US Consortium at Five: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and Why?

The ORCID US consortium, managed by Lyrasis, is five years old in 2023 – hear about their progress so far and plans for the future in Alice Meadows’ interview with their PID Program Leader, Sheila Raybun

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 21, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

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