Lettie Y. Conrad, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Lettie Conrad In her 15 years’ publishing experience, Lettie has led user-centered web and mobile product development, focused on driving research and analysis that enables evidence-based product management for a portfolio of global clients. She serves as North American Editor for Learned Publishing and as a member of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative. Read more about Lettie on LinkedIn, ORCID or Twitter.

Articles by Lettie Y. Conrad

Tracking the Evolution of Reference Resources

A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.

Beyond the Beyond: Can we Increase the Impact and Reach of Scholarly Research?

In a “post-truth” world with declining faith in scientific progress, what is the publisher role in the clear communication and promotion of scholarly research?

The Ebook R/Evolution – Not as Easy as It Seems

The “ebook revolution” in scholarly publishing has behaved more like an evolution. Are we reaching a key inflection point where users are central to our innovations?

Doing the Time Warp: The Lag Between Publication and Discovery

Content usage is a commercial priority for publishers — so too should be overcoming temporal stumbling blocks and refining metadata syndication to optimize the researcher experience of engaging with our online content.

Carving Out a Content Discovery Strategy

Publishers often struggle to keep pace with content discovery demands. Emerald’s user-centered discoverability strategy provides some important lessons in how publishers might adopt a more deliberate, evidence-based approach to facilitating scholarly information seeking and retrieval.

Embrace the Bubble…or Burst it?

Along with recent hair-pulling about fake news has come renewed awareness of the concept of “filter bubbles,” as many of us acknowledge the risk of political information “bubbles” following the US presidential election. Where we once bemoaned “filter failure” – […]

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