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Archives: Pandemic

Guest Post — Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025

Level 3 of STM’s SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Jul 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Understanding Resilience in Scholarly Publishing

In a world full of natural and man-made shocks and stresses, we need to be resilient against those affecting the academic publishing ecosystem.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Aug 22, 2024
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Post-Covid Work Environment — We Can’t Go Back to “Normal”

The COVID pandemic brought changes in what was acceptable to working life. Should we give up those benefits for the sake of returning to the office? How does each individual person’s experience differ, and how can we create conditions that allow all to thrive?

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • Oct 17, 2023
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Thoughts and Observations on the OSTP Responses to Our Interview Questions

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson reflect on the OSTP’s response to their interview questions, and on some implications of those responses and of the memo itself.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 13, 2022
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

It’s Good to be Back… But What Happens Now?

Reflections on what’s next for getting together in the real world, in a time of climate change and pandemics.

  • By David Smith
  • Jun 21, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask The Chefs: It’s Travel Time Again!

Professional conferences, it’s been a while, but we’re ready for you – or are we? This week we ask the chefs what did you forgot while we were home for 2 years? What’s changed and how are you adjusting?

  • By Ann Michael, Lettie Y. Conrad, Haseeb Irfanullah, Todd A Carpenter, David Smith, Charlie Rapple, Angela Cochran, Judy Luther, David Crotty
  • Jun 14, 2022
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Guest Post — Hybrid Versus In-person: What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences?

Marco Marabelli reports on the results of a study looking at the benefits and problems of remote and hybrid conferences, and what the changes in recent years will mean for meetings going forward.

  • By Marco Marabelli
  • May 16, 2022
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Results of the 2022 Survey on Travel, Events, and Return to Office Plans

A look at the results from the SSP’s survey on travel, returning to the office, and attending in-person events.

  • By Madelyn Stone
  • Apr 21, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Love in the Time of COVID: Lessons in Change Management and Hope Amid the Chaos

Lily Garcia Walton discusses Silverchair’s ongoing adaptation of working spaces and policies as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

  • By Lily Garcia Walton
  • Apr 6, 2022
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Chefs: How Do You Feel About In-person Conferences — Including SSP?

Today we ask the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs how they’re feeling about in-person conferences in general, and the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting in particular.

  • By Alice Meadows, Tim Vines, Roger C. Schonfeld, Robert Harington, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Lettie Y. Conrad, Alison Mudditt, Judy Luther
  • Mar 23, 2022
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Returning to the Workplace

With the Omicron surge in the rearview mirror, our Chefs reflect on returning to the workplace.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Joseph Esposito, Todd A Carpenter, Karin Wulf, Angela Cochran
  • Mar 14, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post: Preprint Feedback is Here – Let’s Make it Constructive and FAST

ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.

  • By Sandra Franco Iborra, Jessica Polka, Iratxe Puebla
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 2)

In this second of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 22, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 1)

In this first of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 21, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Taking a Remote-first Approach: An Interview with Jason Morwick

We have made the shift from mostly in-person work to entirely remote work but what happens now? As we transition to the future of our work environment, Cactus Communications has decided on a “remote-first” approach. In this post, Angela Cochran interviews Jason Morwick, head of remote-first, at Cactus.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Feb 16, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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