The Year in Review: 2019 In The Scholarly Kitchen
As we sign off for 2019, a look back at the year in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Creating a Safety Net — Why Double-Dipping Is the Wrong Term and the Right Approach
[…] reliable than print was, while APCs are largely capped and also lack the long-term flexibility of licensing or other traditional syndication approaches (in fact, open access [OA] largely eliminates licensing or syndication revenues, further constraining publisher options). Imagine having to […]
Can You Coko? An Interview with Kristen Ratan of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
If you haven’t already heard of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF or Coko for short), chances are you soon will. Find out more in this interview with co-founder Kristen Ratan.
Guest Post: Richard Fisher on The Monograph: Keep On Keepin’ On*, Part One
Richard Fisher looks at the past, the present and the future of monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
Guest Post: Time to Rethink Usage Analytics
[…] as OAPEN and the Open Research Library (ORL) added additional sources of usage for OA content. On the journals side, syndication deals with platforms like ResearchGate and ScienceDirect are further fragmenting scholarly usage. The future will increasingly see scholarly content […]
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Will Schweitzer of Silverchair
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Will Schweitzer of SilverChair, the independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers.
Revisiting: Who Has All The Content?
[…] has been characterized by fragmentation. In recent years, substantial efforts have been devoted to ameliorating this fragmentation, whether by aggregation, syndication, or infrastructure for entitlement-based linking. I have long dreamed of a single site filled with all scholarship for ready […]
What Is the Shared Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication?
[…] readers. The categories that can be found in the landscape review include: Assessing Impact and Value Authentication and Authorization Discovery, Syndication, and Aggregation Licensing, Reading Ecosystems, and Rights Management Manuscript Submission, Editorial Management, and Research Integrity Non-Consumptive Use Persistent Identifiers […]
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Mandy Hill
Robert Harington talks to Mandy Hill, Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press in this new series of perspectives from some of publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
Keeping Publishing Infrastructure Independent
[…] publications. It could be that one day publishers will no longer each require its own platform as a result of syndication. For now however, only the largest of publishers maintain their own platform infrastructure, while the vast majority of publishers […]
Ask the Fellows: SSP 2022 Annual Meeting
[…] technology (which Charlie Rapple has already summarized part of in a recent Scholarly Kitchen post!), and how to increase content syndication through ResearchGate. For the cherry on top, one of the keynote talks was given by Shermann “Dilla” Thomas, a […]
Retroactively Open: Elsevier Backflips for NERL Agreement
In a novel license agreement, Elsevier agrees to open backfile content from a consortium of elite private institutions. Will other libraries and publishers follow this model?
The State of the Version of Record
[…] Nature by Mithu Lucraft, Katie Allin, and Imogen Batt, presents a study conducted in the context of the Springer Nature syndication partnership with ResearchGate. The study reported that researchers prefer to read and cite the article version of record, which […]
Information Experience Design: Holistic, Humanistic Solutions for Scholarly Products
[…] the infrastructure of content discovery and access in the last few years, such as the increasing uptake of GetFTR, mainstream syndication, and trials of new integrated services. Then, why do we hear of students still struggling with institutional authentication systems? […]
Activision’s Roots and the Many Falls of Atari
In scholarly communications, this week’s big news was the syndication agreement between Elsevier and several other publishers, but in the bigger world of communication and technology, the real buzz was around Microsoft’s $68.7B acquisition of Activision. It is always worth […]