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We Step Aside: Why Are There So Few Black Physicists?

We Step Aside: This week The Scholarly Kitchen is spotlighting research and researchers writing about systemic racism. Today’s post comes from the resource of Particles for Justice.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Jun 10, 2020
  • 4 Comments

Scientific and Scholarly Meetings in the Time of Pandemic

As professional and academic societies scramble to cancel meetings or move them to online formats in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael Clarke discusses considerations for both maintaining revenues and engagement.

  • By Michael Clarke
  • Apr 29, 2020
  • 8 Comments

Summertime and Graduate Teaching (Still) Isn’t Easy

Upstream from the work of scholarly publishers, it’s the middle of the deceptively paced academic summer when scholars I know are often focused on conferences, research trips, and writing. Summer isn’t as frantic as the academic year, when every other […]

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jul 14, 2016
  • 6 Comments

Divided We Fall — How a Fragmented Media Space Affects Academia and Scholarly Publishing

The general fragmentation of media and society has profound implications, and may explain to some extent the fragmentation being seen in higher education and scholarly publishing.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 6, 2016
  • 17 Comments

What If Academic and Scholarly Publishers Paid Research Authors?

It’s a question that has lurked around the edges of our campfire for a while — what if publishers paid authors of research papers? Quickly, it becomes clear why this is very unlikely to happen — for financial, ethical, and practical reasons.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 25, 2016
  • 37 Comments

Sensationalism or Legitimate Worries? Examining the Cottage Industry of Journal Criticism and Science Alarmism

We’re in a thicket of stories proclaiming “science is broken” and that stealing articles isn’t stealing because, publishers. This cottage industry of journal bashing and science trashing has reached a crescendo. What drives it? And what more important stories are being missed in the maelstrom?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 21, 2016
  • 9 Comments

Revisiting: On the Likelihood of Academia “Taking Back” Scholarly Publishing

Revisiting Rick Anderson’s 2013 post on what the options for the academy to take control of scholarly publishing, and whether any of those options seems feasible.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 13, 2015
  • 20 Comments

Buried in the Matryoshka — Unpacking the "Value Add" of Peer Review

Publishers often slap labels on activities that are complex, expensive, and high-value. Worse, we often accept people calling these activities “value-add” when they are core functions of how scientific information shared.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 25, 2014
  • 6 Comments

Stick To Your Ribs: The Impact Factor’s Greatest Hits (and Misses)

Yesterday saw the release of the 2013 Impact Factors for scholarly journals. We present a look back at some favorite posts examining the Impact Factor.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 30, 2014
  • 0 Comments

Stick to Your Ribs: Altmetrics — Replacing the Impact Factor Is Not the Only Point

Revisiting Todd Carpenter’s 2012 post on the value of altmetrics.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jan 23, 2014
  • 42 Comments

On the Likelihood of Academia "Taking Back" Scholarly Publishing

The question addressed here is not whether we in the academy should “take back publishing” from the commercial scholarly publishers, but rather what the options for doing so might be, and whether any of those options seems feasible at the moment.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jun 27, 2013
  • 43 Comments

Altmetrics — Replacing the Impact Factor Is Not the Only Point

Framing “altmetrics” as alternative may limit their potential — they have to be “alternative” to something already in existence. How do we move new measures robustly into the mainstream?

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 14, 2012
  • 33 Comments

Revisiting PressForward – A Good Idea Facing an Uphill Battle

PressForward has a lot of potential, but a lot of potential barriers to overcome. How it fares will depend on how much the larger culture of academia is interested in change.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 27, 2011
  • 5 Comments

Medical Writer Caught Plagiarising — and Other Man Bites Dog Stories

Humor about scientific misconduct may reflect a deeper, more serious side of academic culture gone wrong.

  • By Phil Davis
  • May 16, 2011
  • 4 Comments

One Report, Two Findings: Library Roles Changing, Open Access Not Compelling

Ithaka S+R has published a report on libraries and open access. Libraries are still important in the lives of scholars, but the trends are not in their favor. Open access doesn’t seem to be meeting scholars’ needs.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 15, 2010
  • 14 Comments
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