Todd A Carpenter, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Todd Carpenter is currently Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), where he helps to organize community consensus on a variety of technical and business practice issues for publishers, libraries, and systems vendors. He also serves SSP as Secretary-Treasurer and as a Board member. After receiving his Bachelors degree in Philosophy and German from Syracuse University, Todd escaped the snowy northern climate for the warmth and sun in Georgia and then eventually Maryland. Realizing there was no lucrative future in philosophical musings or reading German literature, Todd entered publishing, where he worked in a variety of marketing management roles at the Haworth Press, the Energy Intelligence Group, the Johns Hopkins University Press, and BioOne. When not working on standards development, his wife and two small children, gourmet cooking, biking, and photography engage almost all of his waking hours. Todd is very active on twitter @tac_niso and posts photos on Flickr.

Articles by Todd A Carpenter

Failure to Deliver: Reaching Users in an Increasingly Mobile World

Judy Luther and Todd Carpenter look at the technological challenges of providing access to content in an increasingly dispersed and mobile world.

Does It Matter Whose Name Appears After the ^© When Using Creative Commons?

Authors are increasingly applying Creative Commons licenses to their content, when publishing it via Open Access. But after deciding to use a CC license, does it matter whether copyright is transferred to the publisher or if it is retained by the author. For some reasons, transfer to the publisher might be the right choice.

‘The Contingency of a Pinball Machine” – The STM Future Lab Looks Forward to Technology Trends in 2021

The STM Association Future Labs looks at technology trends.

What Constitutes Peer Review of Data? A Survey of Peer Review Guidelines

What constitutes peer review of a data set?

Plum Goes Orange – Elsevier Acquires Plum Analytics

Thoughts on Elsevier’s acquisition of Plum Analytics.

COUNTER Prepares Release 5 of its Code of Practice

An interview with the team behind the new Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice.

Is the Proposed Merger of IDPF and W3C Good for Publishers?

The IDPF and the W3C recently announced they were making plans to merge. Will this merger be good for publishers by integrating them more closely into the community that manages the web infrastructure? Or will the merger result in diminishing publisher control over one of the important distribution standards for digital texts? The past five years of experience doesn’t give reason to be reassured of the outcome.

STM Future Trends 2020 provides publishers insights on the currents affecting them

The International Association of STM Publishers released its Future Trends for 2020 last week. The sea upon which publishers sit is choppy and full of cross currents, that could prove perilous or fortunate, depending on one’s perspective and reaction.

Text and Data Mining Are Growing and Publishers Need to Support Their Use – An AAP-PSP Panel Report

During the AAP/PSP annual meeting last week, a panel discussion with representatives of a consortia, a publisher, and a technology provider explored the topic of text and data mining.

Revisiting: Splitting the Difference — Does an Editorial Mutiny at a Journal Do Much Long-term Damage?

The recent editorial board defection from an Elsevier journal brings up issues raised in Todd Carpenter’s 2013 post on editorial boycotts and declarations of independence. They generate a lot of heat, but what do the data say about the actual success of the new journals compared to the journals that were overthrown.