We Step Aside: Why Are There So Few Black Physicists?
We Step Aside: This week The Scholarly Kitchen is spotlighting research and researchers writing about systemic racism. Today’s post comes from the resource of Particles for Justice.
We Step Aside: “Libraries on the Frontlines”
This week The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs step off stage in order to spotlight research and researchers writing about racism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Today’s spotlight is “Libraries on the frontlines: Neutrality and social justice,” an article published in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal in 2017.
We Step Aside: Racism and Medicine
This week The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs step off stage in order to spotlight research and researchers writing about racism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Today’s spotlight is the “Racism in Medicine” issue of The BMJ.
Revisiting Our Open Invitation to Guest Authors
Some improvements at the Scholarly Kitchen have inspired us to renew our open call for guest authors to join the conversation. Revisiting a 2018 post by @lisalibrarian that explains how it works.
Get Your Writing Caps On! One Week Left for SSP Concurrent Session Proposal Submissions
The SSP Annual Meeting Program Committee is currently accepting concurrent session proposals for the 42nd Annual Meeting, being held next May 27–29 in Boston. Here’s how to put together a session proposal.
SSP’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar
A preview of next week’s SSP New Directions Seminar.
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting Focuses on Global Perspectives in Scholarly Publishing
Press release announcing The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 41st Annual Meeting .
Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Jasmine Wallace
Meet our newest Chef, Jasmine Wallace.
Last Chance — Invitation to Participate in the SSP 41st Annual Meeting
The deadline for proposing sessions for next year’s SSP Meeting is approaching. Get your ideas in this week!
On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing, Part II
This follow-up post of anonymized testimonies by people of color about their experiences of racism in scholarly publishing once again make for powerful reading, and show how much work we still have to do to create an inclusive, anti-racist culture in our industry.
On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing
These powerful testimonies, by people of color, about their experience of racism in scholarly publishing, clearly show that we have “a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do” to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry.
Guest Post — “Essential and Existential”: The Work of Equity and Inclusion in Scholarly Publishing
Jocelyn Dawson and Rebecca McLeod gather together helpful advice for recruiting and maintaining a more diverse workforce in publishing.
Guest Post — JATS4R: Optimizing the Reusability of Scholarly Content
Canadian Science Publishing’s Mary Seligy provides a primer on standards, XML and JATS4R, which is driving improved reusability of scholarly content.
Revisiting Two Perspectives on Library-based University Presses
Point: Counterpoint — today we revisit a pair of posts from Joe Esposito and Rick Anderson looking at partnerships and collaborations between university libraries and university presses.
Guest Post: Toll-Free Links Should Be a Win for Everybody
Today’s Guest Post explores toll-free linking as a way for publishers to enable authors to share works published in subscription journals. Guest blogger Todd Reitzel has worked in publishing at several STM and social science associations, most recently the Association for Psychological Science.