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Guest Post: Challenges for Academics in the Global South — Resource Constraints, Institutional Issues, and Infrastructural Problems

For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Aug 16, 2018
  • 2 Comments

Denialism on the Rocks: It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn’t Matter

Thanks to a major new international research study, it’s no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention. The question is: do we have the will to confront it?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 7, 2018
  • 60 Comments

A Surveillance System Disguised as a High School Reunion

John Oliver takes Facebook to task for their seemingly insincere apology advertisements.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 3, 2018
  • 1 Comment

Engaging the Public in Scholarship: A Case for Small Scale

Sharing research with the public is critical, and there are multiple platforms and approaches to this kind of outreach. We tried a local book group for sharing both scholarship and the scholarly process.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 1, 2018
  • 3 Comments

Dropping the Hammer — Predatory Publishers Get Pounded by Regulators and the Press

Recent coordinated investigatory journalism articles, along with separate regulatory actions, are squeezing predatory publishers. But are the root causes being addressed?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 30, 2018
  • 6 Comments

The Oligarchy of Amazon

Robert Harington describes how the recent, under the radar launch of the Amazon Global Store is putting local businesses at risk.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 24, 2018
  • 12 Comments

Guest Post: Safiya Umoja Noble and the Ethics of Social Justice in Information (Part 2)

Jocelyn Dawson and Rebecca McLeod interview Safiya Noble, author of “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Jul 20, 2018
  • 0 Comments

The Core vs. the Crowd — Why Barriers to Entry May Help Restore Trust

A history of the rise of coercive media suggests that raising barriers to entry may be a remedy. Could a business model shift do most of the work for us?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 2, 2018
  • 34 Comments

Interview: The BMJ’s Patient Review Initiative — A Novel Expansion of Peer Review

Kent Anderson looks at an innovative approach to peer review that has expanded, changed review approaches, and impressed authors.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 19, 2018
  • 5 Comments

Guest Post: Building an Inclusive Culture in Scholarly Publishing is “Everybody’s Everyday Work”

Jocelyn Dawson reviews the panel on Building an Inclusive Culture in Scholarly Publishing from the recent SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Jun 15, 2018
  • 1 Comment

Has Google Become a Journal Publisher?

Google’s journal about artificial intelligence (AI) coming from editors and authors associated with Google and Google Brain raises questions about conflicts, vanity publishing, and Google as a media company.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 11, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Guest Post: MLA InSight – A Constructive Forum Emerges

Steven Heffner and Shalu Gillum present the results of the first MLA InSight Summit, an innovative new forum helping libraries and publishers find common ground.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • May 24, 2018
  • 2 Comments

Journals Lose Citations to Preprint Servers

Why do authors continue to cite preprints years after they’ve been formally published?

  • By Phil Davis
  • May 21, 2018
  • 60 Comments

Peer Review – Authors and Reviewers – our “North Star”

Robert Harington suggests that publishers need to do more for researchers to help authors, and to help reviewers understand their role as a reviewer and be recognized for their work. We need to tackle implicit bias in peer review. We need to focus on our “North Star”

  • By Robert Harington
  • May 16, 2018
  • 35 Comments

Recurring Dream — Organizations with Subscriptions Are More Valuable

Even Silicon Valley is finding that recurring revenues (aka, subscriptions) lead to more valuable businesses, while helping smaller companies thrive.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 7, 2018
  • 15 Comments
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