Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: If It Isn't Disruption, What Is It?
Three Scholarly Kitchen chefs talk about the uses and misuses of the term “disruption” in describing what’s going on in the scholarly publishing market.
Webinars, Webinars, Webinars — How Do We Evaluate This New and Increasingly Pervasive Option?
Webinars can serve many roles — B2B, B2C, promotion, education. As they proliferate, the special mix of work and benefit webinars represent will come under scrutiny, and your ability to plan well to grow in this area may be tested.
Online Information, Ebooks, and Moral Panic
Why do ebooks—and e-information generally—cause such teeth-grinding rage and rhetorical hysteria in some people?
CHORUS Comes Into Focus
CHORUS (Clearinghouse for Open Research for the United States) comes from a coalition of scholarly journal publishers and is meant to steward a partnership with federal agencies to provide public access to papers emanating from research they fund. A recent […]
Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Peter Binfield on PeerJ
Peter Binfield talks about progress at PeerJ since the innovative OA journal’s launch, and where the journal is headed.
Quantitative Comments — Highlighting Some of the Math About Finances and Profits Contributed by Readers
Recent comments on a post about Gold OA in the UK dissected a lot of assertions we commonly see, and bear a closer reading.
Managing Two Companies at the Same Time
Many CEOs of publishing companies find themselves having to manage two companies: the established company and an in-house start-up that is designed to participate in a new paradigm based on digital media. Organizationally this is a very difficult situation to be in, but it is essential if a company is going to persist in the years ahead.
Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Mitch Joel on Rebooting Your Business, and Your Life
Mitch Joel talks about how to survive and thrive in the current era of technology-driven change.
The “M” in STM Publishing
A new report from Simba Information analyzes the medical publishing segment, identifying the key companies and industry trends.
The Conversations We're Not Having — Overcoming Uncertainty, Chilling Effects, and Open Access Complacency
While open access remains a hot topic in our industry, we may not be discussing the most difficult aspects. Worse, OA proponents themselves may not be answering some of the questions that are now arising as a broader swath of academics, scientists, and administrators become aware of OA.
What Does a Scientist Want?
Although many people claim to know what scientists want, the author’s own ongoing survey has come up with results that are at odds with most conventional wisdom. This post summarizes those findings and identifies a near-universal view held by many scientists.
Stick to Your Ribs: Governance and the Not-for-profit Publisher
In this “Stick to Your Ribs,” we revisit a post by Joe Esposito about not-for-profit governance, and the broader concept of the value of expertise.
Stick to Your Ribs: A Proposed List — 60 Things Journal Publishers Do
Revisiting an attempt to list the things journal publishers do.
Stick to Your Ribs: Why Hasn't Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already?
Revisiting Michael Clarke’s incisive post about disruption, or rather the lack thereof, in scientific publishing.
Stick to Your Ribs: Challenging the Access Crisis
Revisiting a post from 2011 that called for evidence for a better understanding of access to the research literature.