Identity in/and Peer Review: Kicking off Peer Review Week 2021
Identity in/ and Peer Review. Previewing some of the themes from this week’s posts for Peer Review Week.
Revisiting: Breaking the Silence: the #MeToo Moment in Scholarly Communication
Revisiting Alison Mudditt’s 2018 post on sexual harassment in our community. What has changed in the last three years, and what can we continue to do to eradicate this behavior for the next generation of women.
Let’s Talk About the Volunteers in Scholarly Publishing
[…] as mentors voluntarily offering professional advice to mentees. Numerous conferences, training sessions and webinars organized by scholarly publishing societies often ask for additional fees from their members and non-member participants for covering event costs and organizational running expenses. But facilitators, […]
Global Trends in Open Access: Themes from Africa, Asia and Latin America
A recent Scholarly Kitchen webinar on global open access shared perspectives from Latin America, Asia and Africa. Arianna Becerril García, Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, Vrushali Dandawate and Siân Harris share key themes
Celebrating Five Years of PIDapalooza with a 24-Hour PID Party!
[…] may or may not reflect what long-timers in the field know. I’m thinking here particularly of the question that was asked re: why did Publons create ResearcherID when we already have ORCID? A perfectly reasonable question when an individual has […]
Pandemic Post Roundup
Collecting some key posts on scholarly communications during the pandemic, as we enter into a new wave of infection.
Humans are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges
From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity — and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.
Connecting Funder and Publisher Data Sharing Policies: An Interview with e-Infrastructures Group at the Belmont Forum
Publishers and research funders both want open data, but active collaboration on policy is a rarity. The people behind a new (collaborative) data policy at the Belmont Forum share their experiences.
MLIS: Metadata Librarians In Scholarly publishing
Abigail Wickes and Erica Leeman discuss early career experiences, the value of an MLIS degree across the industry, and the need for metadata expertise in publishing.
Guest Post: Think Sci-Hub is Just Downloading PDFs? Think Again
They’re phishing, hacking, and password-cracking to steal personal and research data from the world’s academic institutions. Andrew Pitts takes a hard look at Sci-Hub as, “Corrupt cybercriminals, not Robin Hood.”
Peer Review in a Baker’s Dozen
A Baker’s Dozen TSK posts that address issues central to diversity, the theme of Peer Review Week 2018. We hope these will get your reading, thinking and commenting!
Guest Post: Reflections on Text and Language Perception, and the Ramifications for Publishing Workflows
Donald Samulack offers thoughts on typesetting, design, font choice and how the brain processes information to create meaning.
Guest Post: Do Journal Article Recommendation Features Change Reader Behavior?
Researchers say journal article recommendations are useful. Do these publisher platform features influence user behavior? How might they increase discovery and serendipity in the researcher’s workflow? A series of studies provide new evidence of increased reader engagement.
Is #DeleteFacebook Going to Change Academic Life and Scholarly Publishing?
What might the recent backlash to revelations about how Facebook was exploited mean for the scholarly ecosystem?
Towards a Diversity Manifesto Part 1 – How a White, Middle-aged, Straight, Cisgender Man Co-organized a Workshop on Diversity Without an Apparent Shred of Irony.
At the end of February, Nancy Roberts of Business Inclusivity and I co-organized a workshop on diversity for the Researcher to Reader conference. In this post I explore my motivations for doing so and talk about why I think so […]