Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Leading with Mental Health Awareness
The work of mental health awareness begins with an analysis of your approach to leadership and a concerted investment in creating the conditions for others to thrive.
Guest Post – Reconnecting by Reading: A Selection of Books About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Part 1
We learn from each other and about each other through reading. Today part 1 of 2 where we have asked members of the SSP community to recommend books about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility matters.
Guest Post — Speak Finance: Gain University Support for Open Scholarship
The federal government is mandating that the knowledge and data produced from federal grants be widely available for our collective good. Libraries remain under-resourced to make this happen. Let’s add some new metrics and language to this narrative to help articulate the value of libraries.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Stephanie Orphan of arXiv
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Stephanie Orphan, Program Director of arXiv, the e-print repository.
Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 2
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Being Your Whole Self: Disability and Neurodivergency
With all the intricacies of intersectionality – gender, ethnicity, disability, neurodivergency, mental health, and other identifiers – how can we be true to our whole self while also being authentic as our work-selves in our day-to-day roles?
From a “Ghost Library” to a “Window on the Big World”: The Story of Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Wellington Central Library
What do you do when the building standards governing the safety of your workplace are deemed inadequate?
Guest Post — Digital Humanities, Data Literacy Skills and AI: Understanding the Way Things Work
New data literacy and artificial literacy standards are necessary and emerging. The workflows and iterative mindsets the Digital Humanities can help inform our approaches.
Guest Post — Students Need to Learn How to Read Scholarly Articles: Here’s How Technology Can Help
A new collaboration between JSTOR and the social annotation tool Hypothesis has seen more instructional uses of content and greater engagement among students with the material.
Guest Post — Do Libraries Still Dream Unified Dreams? Part 2
Today’s post looks at loosely coupled software and services that together could be used to create a modular library system. What are the merits, and flaws, of such an approach and what can libraries (and technology providers) do to remedy some of the less desired effects of such strategies?
Guest Post — Do Libraries Still Dream Unified Dreams? Part 1
Why is the unified dream of library software still so strong among the library community? In an ever more diverse library landscape, why do we still envision and talk about THE library system? And what are the alternatives?
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.
The State of Scholarly Metadata: 2023
A new interactive report on the research lifecycle designed to offer a deeper understanding of the state of scholarly metadata in 2023 is presented.
What Is the Shared Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication?
At Ithaka S+R, we are examining the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication. Today, we provide background about the project and announce the publication this week of a landscape review on shared infrastructure.
Will New Clarivate Leadership Yield a Renewed Focus on Its Products?
Today, Clarivate has installed Bar Veinstein as president for Academic and Government, a move that should bring renewed focus to the product portfolio, writes Roger C. Schonfeld.