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?
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.
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.
Why Clouds Don’t Fall Out of the Sky
It turns out clouds are really heavy. So how do they float?
Accent Identification
How well do you know regional accents? Some tips on locating a speaker’s origins.
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.
Pencil Making
How do they get the lead in the pencil? All will be revealed in today’s video.
Have a Calm and Soothing Friday — By Learning About Logarithms
Have a calming, meditative end to your week by learning some math.
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.
Ask The Chefs: New Skills
In a world of face-paced constant change, individual development and evolution is critical. What new skills have you developed in the past 5 years and why?
Cutting Through the Headline Hype on Medical Studies
Two videos offer tips on separating the actual research done in medical studies from the often over-hyped media coverage.
Guest Post: STEM Fellowship — Providing High School and Undergraduate Students Opportunities to Publish
High School and Undergrad student conduct research all the time, and yet student run journals can come and go. Today’s guest post highlights the STEM Fellowship, which provides a sustainable support structure for student lead journals as well as challenges to inspire research outside the box.
Ask The Chefs: Annual Meeting Sessions
Are you looking forward to this year’s SSP Annual Conference? We are! This month we asked the Chefs which sessions they were planning to attend and why.
Can Twitter, Facebook, and Other Social Media Drive Downloads, Citations?
A brief review of studies linking social media and article-level performance.
Conference Season Is Here: Are you Prepared?
Jasmine Wallace shares strategies for getting the most out of attending publishing meetings.