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Discouraged, but not Dissuaded: The 2025 SSP President’s Address

Heather Staines Presidential Address from the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By Heather Staines
  • Jun 2, 2025
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 21: SSP President Interview with Heather Staines

This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast welcomes current SSP President Heather Staines to chat about her career trajectory, plans and goals for her presidency, and advice for Early Career Professionals.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen, Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Feb 28, 2025
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  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect

Will the next generation of professions be impressed with the content platforms and workflow tools we currently have? Angela Cochran imagines a world where we meet the challenge of modernized systems.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Feb 27, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Building a Voluntary Contribution Transaction System

Here I propose a framework for a Voluntary Contribution Transaction system to recognize the voluntary contributions in the scholarly workflow and to give tangible benefits to the volunteers.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 9, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Off for Labor Day: Get Behind the Mule

We are off for the US Labor Day holiday, but wanted to say thanks to all who do the hard work of scholarly communications.

  • By David Crotty
  • Sep 5, 2022
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  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Let’s Talk About the Volunteers in Scholarly Publishing

Haseeb Irfanullah takes a look at how volunteerism shapes scholarly communication.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Jul 21, 2021
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Revisiting: The Problem(s) With Credit for Peer Review

Revisiting a 2015 post to ask whether we are any closer to offering researchers credit for non-research activities?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 17, 2020
  • 28 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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