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Guest Post: Empowering Young Scientists Through Publication – 10 years of the Journal of Emerging Investigators

Today’s post looks back on the Journal of Emerging Investigators as it approaches it’s 10th anniversary of providing a forum from middle school and high school students.

  • By Kari Mattison
  • Oct 26, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Gerald Beasley Interviews Timon Oefelein (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 2 of this pair of posts we turn the tables and Gerald Beasley interviews Timon Oefelein of Springer Nature about how publishers can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Gerald R. Beasley
  • Oct 8, 2021
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Guest Post — The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and Open Access: Timon Oefelein Interviews Gerald Beasley (Part 1 of 2)

In Part 1 of this pair of posts, Timon Oefelein interviews Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, about how librarians can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  • By Timon Oefelein
  • Oct 8, 2021
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Guest Post — Enabling your Organization to be Antiracist

To celebrate the launch of C4DISC’s Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations, Damita Snow and Jocelyn Dawson sat down with Laura Martin and Megan Seyler to share why they are excited about this toolkit and what they hope it will achieve.

  • By Jocelyn Dawson, Laura Martin, Megan Seyler, Damita Snow
  • Aug 25, 2021
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Pluralism vs. Monoculture in Scholarly Communication, Part 2

Calls for a monoculture of scholarly communication keep multiplying. But wouldn’t a continued diversity of models be healthier?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • 22 Comments

Global Trends in Open Access: Themes from Africa, Asia and Latin America

A recent Scholarly Kitchen webinar on global open access shared perspectives from Latin America, Asia and Africa. Arianna Becerril García, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Vrushali Dandawate and Siân Harris share key themes

  • By Siân Harris, Arianna Becerril García, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Vrushali Dandawate
  • May 13, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Revisiting: The Problem with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

Today we revisit Geraldine Cochran’s 2018 post, which offers a chance to understand the differences between the words “diversity”, “inclusion”, and “equity”, and how that understanding can make our efforts toward progress more effective.

  • By Geraldine Cochran
  • May 3, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Climate Action: Collaboration for Progress on Earth Day

Thea Sherer discusses Springer Nature’s efforts to address climate impact and how collective action can help us all do our part.

  • By Thea Sherer
  • Apr 22, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Feasibility, Sustainability, and the Subscribe-to-Open Model

Like all OA funding models, subscribe-to-open solves some problems while creating others. Some of the downsides are pretty fundamental.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 20, 2021
  • 39 Comments

Climate Responsibilities of Scholarly Publishing

The scholarly publishing community must reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to the global climate emergency. Here are some thoughts on how we can take a leading role in these efforts.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Apr 15, 2021
  • 8 Comments

Guest Post — A Unified, Common Ground Approach to Open

Global initiatives in open are decentralized and disconnected, lacking researcher input and buy-in. An “opens solutions” approach can both embrace and leverage that diversity, ensuring that it all contributes to the greater whole.

  • By Glenn Hampson, Mel DeSart, Rob Johnson
  • Apr 13, 2021
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Scholarly Communication, Plumbing, and JATS4R

Like a home renovation, content standards, like JATS4R, involve surprises & inter-dependencies, demanding our teamwork & flexibility.

  • By Melissa Harrison
  • Apr 12, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Library Vendor Platforms Need a Strategic Reboot to Meet Librarian Curriculum Development Needs

David Parker looks at platform strategy for supporting learning and curriculum development.

  • By David Parker
  • Mar 31, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — Responsible Reporting of Suicide During COVID-19: The Role of Academic Publishing

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health are widely discussed in the media, but responsible discussion is vital, and academic publishers have an important role to play. Please be aware that this article talks about suicide.

  • By Duleeka Knipe, Keith Hawton, Mark Sinyor, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
  • Mar 10, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — The Words We Live By: Our Ideas and Values as the Catalyst for Action

Dawit Tegbaru offers ideas on how the scholarly communications community can take action to address inequity.

  • By Dawit Tegbaru
  • Mar 4, 2021
  • 9 Comments
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