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Helping Researchers Communicate Their Findings to the World: An Interview with Emma Feloy of Research Outreach

Research Outreach is a young company that helps researchers make their work more easily intelligible to a lay audience. Editorial Director Emma Feloy answers some questions about how their service works.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

How are Academic Institutions Innovating Under Pressure

@TAC_NISO Summarizes a NISO webinar discussion on how institutions are innovating their teaching approaches because of the COVID-19 pandemic by going virtual.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 8, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post: 5 Things Learned from The SSP DC Career Development Lab

Susan Chavez and Chloe Fells detail the career advice learned from a recent SSP event.

  • By Susan Chavez, Chloe Fells
  • Mar 24, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Parenting School Aged Children Through a Pandemic

A group of Chefs reflects the struggles we are facing, and the lessons we are learning, about parenting during the pandemic. 

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, David Crotty, Angela Cochran, Karin Wulf, Lettie Y. Conrad, Tao Tao
  • Mar 19, 2020
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

What Does “Exponential Growth” Mean?

A math lesson on what is meant by the term “exponential growth”.

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 13, 2020
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?

One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 25, 2020
  • 53 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask The Chefs: Adapting Core Skills

This month we asked the Chefs: As times change, how have you evolved your core skills to continue to add value to your work and fulfillment to your career?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Feb 19, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Guest Post — An Update to OhioLINK’s Affordable Textbooks Initiative

Gwen Evans from OhioLink looks at the positive results of the consortium’s statewide affordable textbooks initiative.

  • By Gwen Evans
  • Feb 11, 2020
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Attending an International Seminar from the Comfort of your own Boardroom: A Publisher’s Experience with Virtual Meetings

Amber Dilabbio discusses the University of Toronto Press’ experience with virtual attendance at a publishing meeting.

  • By Amber Dilabbio
  • Nov 18, 2019
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Why Clouds Don’t Fall Out of the Sky

It turns out clouds are really heavy. So how do they float?

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 1, 2019
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Accent Identification

How well do you know regional accents? Some tips on locating a speaker’s origins.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 18, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

A New Academy to Train Librarians and Researchers about Data Management Has Launched. RDMLA Answers Our Questions.

A new set of courses in research data management is being offered to librarians. Todd Carpenter talks with the founders of the RDMLA to find out more.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 15, 2019
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Pencil Making

How do they get the lead in the pencil? All will be revealed in today’s video.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 11, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Have a Calm and Soothing Friday — By Learning About Logarithms

Have a calming, meditative end to your week by learning some math.

  • By David Crotty
  • Sep 27, 2019
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

UC Davis Experiments with a New Textbook Model: An Interview with Jason Lorgan

An interview with Jason Lorgan, executive director of campus stores at @UCDavis, about the university’s innovative new textbook-affordability program.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 4, 2019
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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