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Ann Michael

Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research?

In support of Open Access Week, we asked our community how we can achieve equitable participation in Open Research. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow. Come share your views!

  • By Ann Michael, Alison Mudditt, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs: Improving Trust In Peer Review

In support of #PeerRevWk20 theme #TrustInPeerReview, we asked the Chefs how trust in peer review could be improved. See what the said and add your thoughts!

  • By Ann Michael, Robert Harington, Rick Anderson, Tim Vines, Jasmine Wallace, Lettie Y. Conrad, David Smith, Haseeb Irfanullah, Charlie Rapple, Karin Wulf, Alice Meadows, Phill Jones, Todd A Carpenter
  • Sep 17, 2020
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 16 mins

Sustainable Open Access – What’s Next? 

How can collective action models to support open access, like Subscribe to Open, be applied to academic publishing? An interview with Raym Crow.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 27, 2020
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask The Chefs: Do’s And Don’ts Of Data

Is the value of data in decision making all hype? How can we leverage data to server our mission, customers, and our own operational effectiveness?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 5, 2020
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

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.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Jun 30, 2020
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Ask The Chefs: Permanent Change?

So much change has happened in the last few months. What changes do you think will “stick” in scholarly publishing?

  • By Ann Michael, Rick Anderson, Alice Meadows, Karin Wulf, David Smith, Tim Vines, Alison Mudditt, Judy Luther
  • May 28, 2020
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Ask The Chefs: New Normal Part 2

From binge watching, binge listening, reconnecting with neighbors and old friends, Zoom happy hours or Zoom family game nights, to cooking, exercising, and gardening, we’re all figuring out how to get through our days. What’s your strategy? Part 2 of our answers today.

  • By Ann Michael, Todd A Carpenter, Siân Harris, David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Jasmine Wallace, Judy Luther
  • Apr 24, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask The Chefs: New Normal Part 1

From binge watching, binge listening, reconnecting with neighbors and old friends, Zoom happy hours or Zoom family game nights, to cooking, exercising, and gardening, we’re all figuring out how to get through our days. What’s your strategy? Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.

  • By Ann Michael, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Joseph Esposito, David Smith, Tim Vines, Charlie Rapple, Haseeb Irfanullah, Karin Wulf
  • Apr 23, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask The Chefs: Picking A Superpower!

With the world in chaos around us, this month we’ve asked the Chefs about superpowers! What would YOU select if you could pick any superpower? Let us know.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Mar 26, 2020
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask The Chefs: Adapting Core Skills

This month we asked the Chefs: As times change, how have you evolved your core skills to continue to add value to your work and fulfillment to your career?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Feb 19, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

The Kitchen at the APE: Five Chefs Share Takeaways from the 2020 Academic Publishing in Europe Conference

Here are some takeaways from last week’s Academic Publishing in Europe meeting, from Chefs who were there (either physically or virtually).

  • By Rick Anderson, Ann Michael, Roger C. Schonfeld, Michael Clarke, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 23, 2020
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask The Chefs: 2019 Lessons Learned

Looking forward to 2020, what did you learn in 2019 that might change your plans or actions going forward? How have you grown?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Dec 12, 2019
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs: Beyond the APC

It’s Open Access week so this month we asked the chefs: What’s next for OA? What lies beyond the APC as a funding model? Let us know your thoughts!

  • By Ann Michael
  • Oct 24, 2019
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask The Chefs: Peer Review Quality

Quality means different things to different people. How do you think different stakeholders would define quality in peer review?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Sep 12, 2019
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs: Competition And Cooperation

How does scholarly communications benefit from coopetition, the cooperation of competitors? Come see what the Chefs said and tell us your thoughts!

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 22, 2019
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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