An interview with Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, about the increasingly central role data science is playing in research and teaching, – and how journals, publishers, societies, and librarians fit in this emerging ecosystem.
[…] been spent thinking about honing the results published in scientific papers toward the interesting. Studies with short titles get more newspapers interested; studies about coffee or wine are the superstars of Twitter. But in reality, most science is not so […]
Looking forward to 2020, what did you learn in 2019 that might change your plans or actions going forward? How have you grown?
[…] it’s important to point out that the “user as product” phenomenon has existed for as long as there have been newspapers and magazines — not to mention free TV broadcasting — which relied on a business model that lured consumers […]
[…] scale. Step 9 – Collaborate, iterate, fail, rinse, repeat. No one solution will solve every challenge. Music, science journals, art, newspapers, films, books, design, etc. all have different business models. Step 10 – Don’t let better kill good enough. It […]
Donald Samulack offers thoughts on typesetting, design, font choice and how the brain processes information to create meaning.
Lisa Hinchliffe shares her advice for guest authors and describes how the guest authoring process works. Guest posts add vibrancy and variety to the Scholarly Kitchen. Be Our Guest!
[…] not, as hard as it is to believe nearly 25 years later, for social networks, pornography, and Russian bots). While newspapers were still wondering if they should build websites and if so what to put on them (“SF Gate” anyone?) […]
[…] characters to explain. The Scholarly Kitchen has also remained a place where commenting is still valued and still works. While newspapers and magazine increasingly bury their comment sections or are abandoning them entirely (and with good reason in many cases), […]
[…] have been disrupted by the Internet. Think of music (how many times has Napster been used as an iconic illustration?), newspapers, magazines, books, and, of course, cable TV (Netflix, anyone?). What is remarkable is that the Internet has been very […]
[…] commentator because I also have a parallel life as a music critic. Since 1990, I’ve been writing music reviews for newspapers, weeklies, syndicates, and online publications. Between 1997 and 2012 I wrote thousands of reviews for the All-Music Guide, and […]
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.
[…] have the clinical articles as well as advertising copy published in their own medical journals, prepare and plant articles in newspapers and magazines. Seeds the Sackler family planted decades ago via their vertically integrated drug and information operation are now […]
[…] In Germany, Facebook has one manager to handle all of its publishing partners, clearly an inadequate level of staffing. For newspapers, the problem has been bilateral, as a story from the Columbia Journalism Review explains: Just as many local newsrooms complained […]
Most journals have adopted rapid publication processes, but with the rise of preprint servers and new trends among readers, maybe they can return to a slower, more considered pace.