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IOP Moves to Universal Double-blind Peer Review: An Interview with Kim Eggleton

Rick Anderson interviews Kim Eggleton of IOP about the publisher’s recently announced move to 100% double-blind peer review.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 10, 2020
  • 11 Comments

cOAlition S’s Rights Confiscation Strategy Continues

By calling its new policy a “Rights Retention Strategy,” cOAlition S is engaging in doublespeak. This strategy actually does exactly the opposite of what it claims.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 20, 2020
  • 65 Comments

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

Utility, Morality, Strategy, and Scholarly Communication

Should the library focus first on serving its local constituency, or on changing the scholarly communication ecosystem? No matter how we answer this question, the implications will be complex.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 21, 2020
  • 15 Comments

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

Helping Researchers Communicate Their Findings to the World: An Interview with Emma Feloy of Research Outreach

Research Outreach is a young company that helps researchers make their work more easily intelligible to a lay audience. Editorial Director Emma Feloy answers some questions about how their service works.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • 8 Comments

Marketing Amidst a Pandemic

Our Chefs reflect on considerations for marketing and marketers amid the pandemic.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Alison Mudditt, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Charlie Rapple, Rick Anderson, David Crotty
  • Mar 30, 2020
  • 7 Comments

Measuring the Success of Transformative Agreements

I asked twelve publisher/customer pairs how they will measure the success of their transformative deals five years from now. The responses were very interesting.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 12, 2020
  • 6 Comments

Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?

One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 25, 2020
  • 53 Comments

ACM’s New Open Access Agreements: A Q&A with Scott Delman

A conversation with Scott Delman of ACM about the publisher’s recently-announced deal with four major US research universities.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 10, 2020
  • 8 Comments
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Participant's view:
-- increase attendance of people from low-income countries and other marginalized positions

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Guest Post — Hybrid Versus In-person: What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences? https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/05/16/guest-post-hybrid-versus-in-person-what-will-be-the-future-of-academic-conferences/

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Would love to see similar survey data from publishers and other exhibitors. We're not the main audience for a scholarly meeting (nor should we be), but FWIW I've found online meetings to be a complete waste of my time. https://twitter.com/scholarlykitchn/status/1526135441472249856

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Guest Post — Hybrid Versus In-person: What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences? https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/05/16/guest-post-hybrid-versus-in-person-what-will-be-the-future-of-academic-conferences/

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dm_cooperDanielle Cooper (she/her)@dm_cooper·
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"Online conferences are preferred over hybrid ones, by both attendees and organizers" - Marco Marabelli shares some exciting new data points relevant to @IthakaSR /JSTOR labs' project on the future of scholarly meetings. More on that project here: https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/covid-19-and-the-future-of-the-annual-meeting/ https://twitter.com/scholarlykitchn/status/1526135441472249856

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Guest Post — Hybrid Versus In-person: What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences? https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/05/16/guest-post-hybrid-versus-in-person-what-will-be-the-future-of-academic-conferences/

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