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Smorgasbord: Trends from the Spring 2023 Meetings and Conferences

It’s conference season in scholarly communications. Between them, the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs have been / will be at 9 events around the world in the 6 week stretch from early April to mid May. In a series of “Smorgasbord” posts, Chefs will share some of the key themes emerging for our sector. This week: Charlie Rapple reports from EARMA, Roy Kaufman from the London Book Fair, and David Crotty from STM. 

  • By Charlie Rapple, Roy Kaufman, David Crotty
  • May 11, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Content Platform Migrations Cause Headaches. Can We Avoid Some of the Pain?

Libraries and individual subscribers to journals have seen the problems that can occur when a publication moved or was sold from one publisher to another. Perhaps there would be an editorial change, leading to delayed issues. Perhaps all the subscription […]

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 4, 2019
  • 1 Comment

Announcing the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications

Last week saw the official launch of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) – a collaboration between 10 industry organizations led by SSP. Learn why this group is needed and what its priorities are in this post by Alice Meadows

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Oct 12, 2018
  • 3 Comments

Ask The Chefs: How Can We Increase Diversity In Scholarly Communications?

Why is increasing diversity in scholarly communications seemingly so difficult? What should we be doing differently?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Nov 16, 2017
  • 34 Comments

Institutional Conservatism in Scholarly Communications: Thoughts from UKSG’s One-day Conference

A recent UKSG conference explored what researchers need from scholarly communications, and whether the provisions of publishers, libraries and others are keeping up. Once again, the biggest frustration is rooted not in publisher / library services but in institutional structures for recognition.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Nov 30, 2016
  • 15 Comments

The Article — Not Quite Dead Yet

UKSG Coverage – The Future of Scholarly Journals: slow evolution, rapid transformation – or redundancy? @CameronNeylon and @Michael_Mabe debate at #UKSGlive

  • By Ann Michael
  • Mar 29, 2012
  • 41 Comments

The Article Download Game

The Usage Factor may come with unanticipated consequences: article spam and malfeasance.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Oct 27, 2008
  • 10 Comments

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