Charlie Rapple is co-founder of Kudos, which showcases research to accelerate and broaden its reach and impact. She is also Chair of UKSG and serves on the Editorial Board of UKSG Insights. @charlierapple.bsky.social, x.com./charlierapple and linkedin.com/in/charlierapple. In past lives, Charlie has been an electronic publisher at CatchWord, a marketer at Ingenta, a scholarly comms consultant at TBI Communications, and associate editor of Learned Publishing.
With Executive Orders banning mentions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), what happens to research when these principles are erased? This post explores the risks of a ‘post-DEI’ society—lost data, eroded trust, and weakened scientific progress—and why inclusive research remains critical.
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 1 today.
In 2023 we twice assessed the social media landscape and with the explosion of Bluesky over the last weeks it seemed a good time to reassess. How do Chefs use social media differently now, and what are they seeing as platforms of choice or opportunity?
Insights from a recent study looking at how the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are influencing research, including recommendations for publishers’ next steps.
Congratulations to Heather Staines and her cast for converting ALPSP delegates to the grand tradition of the conference skit.
Charlie Rapple shares 18 hard-won nuggets of wisdom to ease your passage through your career, and through your life.
Research publications contain the answers to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. But to realize that potential, more people need to find, understand and act on them.
It’s been “the year of generative AI”, so Charlie Rapple asked ChatGPT to write some cracker-standard Christmas jokes with a scholarly communications theme.
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 1 today.
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.
How machines learn, as demonstrated by a pile of matchboxes playing tic-tac-toe.
The Curse of Knowledge is when we assume everyone else understands what we’re talking about, when they don’t. Good communication happens when we have the courage to make it simple.
What do you do when the building standards governing the safety of your workplace are deemed inadequate?
It’s conference season in scholarly communications. Between them, the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs have been / will be at 9 events around the world in the 6 week stretch from early April to mid May. In a series of “Smorgasbord” posts, Chefs will share some of the key themes emerging for our sector. This week: Charlie Rapple reports from EARMA, Roy Kaufman from the London Book Fair, and David Crotty from STM.
Journal-level impact feeds academic impact, which in turn feeds broader impacts potential