Lettie Y. Conrad, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

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 – read more about Lettie on LinkedIn, ORCID or Twitter.

Articles by Lettie Y. Conrad

Mapping Open Science Tools

A fresh mapping of open-science tools for the researcher workflow reveals numerous gaps and opportunities for software solutions in the name of scientific progress.

The Latest in Search: Do New Discovery Solutions Improve Search as well as Retrieval?

We have seen a surge in scientifically minded search engines and browser extensions that aim to supercharge content discovery — have they cracked the code in mainstream search and retrieval of scholarly literature?

Roadblocks to Accessibility

Accessible publishing is better for publishers, better for the bottom line, better for readers of all stripes. If we agree that egalitarian dissemination of academic content is the thing to do, including those with physical, learning, or cognitive challenges, then why does end-to-end accessible publishing continue to elude us?

Interview with MDPI: Lessons Learned in more than 20 Years of Open Access Publishing

An interview with MDPI’s CEO, Dr. Franck Vazquez, sheds light on the challenges and innovations during the last 20 years of open-access publishing.

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” – […]