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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Steven Inchcoombe

Robert Harington talks to Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 30, 2023
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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Mandy Hill

Robert Harington talks to Mandy Hill, Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press in this new series of perspectives from some of publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 23, 2023
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Equity, Inclusiveness, and Zero Embargo Public Access

Robert Harington considers whether open and public access models, as they have emerged so far, are delivering us to a more inequitable publishing future as we rush towards openness.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Oct 4, 2022
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Ask The Chefs: OSTP Policy Part I

Everyone has an opinion about the OSTP Policy memo! Come over and hear what the Chefs have to say and share your opinions with us. Part 1 of a 2 part post.

  • By Ann Michael, Tim Vines, Robert Harington, David Crotty, Tao Tao, Alison Mudditt
  • Aug 30, 2022
  • 15 Comments

Scientific Journeys: A Physicist Explores the Culture, History and Personalities of Science – A Book Review

Robert Harington reviews Fred Dylla’s book, Scientific Journeys: A Physicist Explores the Culture, History and Personalities of Science, a collection of prose pieces that portray the author’s approach to a world of science and the science of the world.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Aug 4, 2022
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Fraud and Peer Review: An Interview with Melinda Baldwin

Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2022
  • 15 Comments

Ask the Chefs: How Do You Feel About In-person Conferences — Including SSP?

Today we ask the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs how they’re feeling about in-person conferences in general, and the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting in particular.

  • By Alice Meadows, Tim Vines, Roger C. Schonfeld, Robert Harington, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Lettie Y. Conrad, Alison Mudditt, Judy Luther
  • Mar 23, 2022
  • 15 Comments

Accelerating Open Research: A Multi-stakeholder Discussion

Robert Harington reports on the recent SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics, who met to discuss how collaboration among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 7, 2022
  • 2 Comments

The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 2)

In this second of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 22, 2022
  • 3 Comments

The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 1)

In this first of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 21, 2022
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