Ask The Chefs: 2023 SSP Annual Meeting
The 2023 SSP Annual Meeting wrapped up last week. We asked the Chefs for their impressions of the event.
See You in Portland! SSP Annual Meeting Panels featuring Scholarly Kitchen Chefs (and a Song to Get You There)
Here’s where you can find Scholarly Kitchen Chefs at the SSP Annual Meeting.
Ask the Co-Chairs: A Look at the 2023 SSP Annual Meeting
Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen sat down with the Co-Chairs of the SSP’s Annual Meeting Program Committee to learn more about the event and what we can look forward to.
Guest Post — OER or OERs: Can There Can Be Only One (Acronym)?
Why say OERs when Open Educational Resources is already plural? A guest post from librarian Emma Wood on the confounding inconsistencies of language.
Intended Audience and Actual Distribution: A Growing Mismatch?
Researchers write articles for a primary audience of peers. Open access has expanded the actual distribution. What to do about the growing mismatch?
A Serious Game for Scholarly Publishers: The STM Trends 2027 Helps Publishers Level Up
@TAC_NISO describes STM Association 2027 Trends report released Thursday. It helps people grasp the direction and impact of technology changes in our community so they can “level up”
How Related are Journal Impact and Research Impact?
Journal-level impact feeds academic impact, which in turn feeds broader impacts potential
Guest Post — Addressing Paper Mills and a Way Forward for Journal Security
Wiley’s Jay Flynn discusses the impact that paper mills had on Hindawi’s publishing program and how all stakeholders must collaborate to address behaviors that undermine research integrity.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Antonia Seymour
Robert Harington talks to Antonia Seymour, CEO of IOP Publishing, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
Will Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Consolidate?
Much of the scholarly publishing sector has already experienced a flight to scale. Today, Roger Schonfeld asks: Is a major consolidation among humanities and social sciences publishers coming next?
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Steven Inchcoombe
Robert Harington talks to Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer for Springer Nature in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.
Trust and the Personal Library
Who holds the particular book needed by a reader? What is the balance between the personal library and the institutional collection?
Guest Post — The Time Has Come to Start Swimming Upstream: How Meaningful Engagement with Authors Early in the Research Process Can Yield Significant Benefits to Publishers
Avi Staiman discusses how meaningful engagement with authors early in the research process can yield significant benefits to publishers and journals.
Unnecessary Research Bureaucracy is Killing Academic Productivity, But it IS Fixable
Research bureaucracy and administrative burden has become so overpowering that many researchers are reporting that they don’t have time to do any research anymore. Phill Jones argues that technology in the form of PIDs will go a long way to fixing this.
Does Scholarly Publishing Have an Innovation Problem?
Is there an entrenched stasis in scholarly communication in which the core elements of the system have not been much moved by the revolutions happening around us?