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Archives: COVID-19

How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets? Or, Finding the Truth in the Gap Between Perception and Reality

Publication of the final report of a major global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets – and the truth that emerged in the gap between perception and reality.

  • By Charlie Rapple, Christopher Daley
  • Mar 24, 2021
  • 8 Comments

What a Mangled Press Conference on COVID Can Tell Us About the Need for Good Data Storytelling

Last week the UK government COVID held a press briefing in an attempt to get the country behind new travel and social restrictions. What lessons can we learn from this bad example of how not to present evidence to support our positions?

  • By Phill Jones
  • Nov 9, 2020
  • 13 Comments

Trust as an Ethic and a Practice in Peer Review

Chefs Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, and Karin Wulf tackle Peer Review Week 2020’s theme of Trust in Peer Review with this post on trust as both an ethic and a practice

  • By Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Karin Wulf
  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Investing in Libraries is the Right Thing for Administrators To Do, Even if There Are Fewer Resources Overall

Library budgets shrank for 2 decades. They can’t shrink any further because of COVID-19. In fact, they should grow despite contracting college budgets

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Aug 25, 2020
  • 12 Comments

Guest Post — Bringing Diverse Perspectives into Scholarly Marketing and Communications: Calls to Action towards Global Outreach for Global Change Part 1 

COVID-19 and the anti-racist movement are driving publishers to respond to and engage with readers in new and innovative ways but will these continue? This two-part guest post by Kasia Repeta features calls to action from across the publishing community.

  • By Kasia Repeta, Dean Smith, Anne-Marie Green, Basiru Adetomiwa
  • Jul 9, 2020
  • 0 Comments

The UK National PID Consortium: A Pathway to Increased Adoption

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are an essential part of the open research infrastructure, but need widespread adoption to be effective. Learn about Jisc’s plans to increase adoption through a national PID consortium in this post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 29, 2020
  • 7 Comments

How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture: An interview with Daniel Hook, CEO of Digital Science

In this interview Robert Harington asks Daniel Hook (CEO of Digital Science and co-author of the new Digital Science report. How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture) about his views on fundamental shifts in research culture as a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jun 24, 2020
  • 0 Comments

What We’re Missing From Being in Person, or, What Will a Born Digital Conference Look Like?

In this era of COVID-19, what is the new normal for conferences in our community. Moving forward, what might a born digital conference entail?

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 18, 2020
  • 5 Comments

Guest Post — On Working from Home in a Pandemic

Gabe Harp from MIT Press offers tips on how to maximize your efficiency and preserve your sanity while working from home.

  • By Gabe Harp
  • May 4, 2020
  • 15 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

Ask The Chefs: New Normal Part 2

From binge watching, binge listening, reconnecting with neighbors and old friends, Zoom happy hours or Zoom family game nights, to cooking, exercising, and gardening, we’re all figuring out how to get through our days. What’s your strategy? Part 2 of our answers today.

  • By Ann Michael, Todd A Carpenter, Siân Harris, David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Jasmine Wallace, Judy Luther
  • Apr 24, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Ask The Chefs: New Normal Part 1

From binge watching, binge listening, reconnecting with neighbors and old friends, Zoom happy hours or Zoom family game nights, to cooking, exercising, and gardening, we’re all figuring out how to get through our days. What’s your strategy? Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.

  • By Ann Michael, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Joseph Esposito, David Smith, Tim Vines, Charlie Rapple, Haseeb Irfanullah, Karin Wulf
  • Apr 23, 2020
  • 1 Comment

How are Academic Institutions Innovating Under Pressure

@TAC_NISO Summarizes a NISO webinar discussion on how institutions are innovating their teaching approaches because of the COVID-19 pandemic by going virtual.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 8, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Community Engagement Amidst a Crisis

Recognizing the importance of community engagement, but also some of the challenges facing traditional forms of engagement and incumbent facilitators, several chefs reflect on how one facilitates a community amidst today’s crisis.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Alice Meadows, Robert Harington
  • Mar 31, 2020
  • 3 Comments

Marketing Amidst a Pandemic

Our Chefs reflect on considerations for marketing and marketers amid the pandemic.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Alison Mudditt, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Charlie Rapple, Rick Anderson, David Crotty
  • Mar 30, 2020
  • 7 Comments
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