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Guest Post — Publishing in a Pandemic: 5 Factors Limiting Scholarly Research

Survey results on COVID pandemic impacts on researchers and educators across the disciplines, and implications for scholarly publishers.

  • By Deirdre Watchorn, Chris Smith
  • Dec 22, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Making the Most Out of Virtual Events: The Publisher as Vendor

Organizations are having to shift in person events to virtual for the foreseeable future. In this post, author Colleen Scollans discusses the steps we can take to make virtual events a marketers dream.

  • By Colleen Scollans
  • Oct 26, 2020
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Revisiting: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Our Story: Hamiltunes and the Burden of Founding Histories

Looking back at a 2015 post on the musical “Hamilton”, which raises questions about history and historical practice that reflects what scholars are and aren’t doing.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 18, 2020
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Tweeting-Citations Authors Speak, Finally

We stand by our data. We just won’t share it or believe that you replicated our study.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Aug 3, 2020
  • 27 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Intention to Tweet: Medical Study Reports Tweets Improve Citations

A paper linking tweets and citations comes under attack, but more from the authors’ inability to answer even basic questions about their paper and resistance to share their data.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jul 6, 2020
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

[Virtual] Conference Season Is Here: Are you prepared?

This year’s conference season will look a lot different than last year’s. Here are some tips to getting the most out of attending a virtual conference.

  • By Jasmine Wallace
  • Jun 23, 2020
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Educating Ourselves: Ten Quotes from Researchers Exploring Issues Around Race

Shocking, sobering and thought-provoking quotes from, and links to, plain language summaries of research relating to systemic or institutionalized racism, white privilege, and related topics.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 15, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

We Step Aside: Indigenous Deaths in Custody in Australia

This week The Scholarly Kitchen is spotlighting research and researchers writing about systemic racism. Today’s post is about the deaths of Indigenous people in custody in Australia.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Jun 11, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Talking About – and Maybe Even Selling – Books in a Pandemic

With their audiences in COVID-19 lockdown, publishers are testing out new marketing strategies while some authors are taking matters into their own hands.

  • By Karin Wulf, Lindsay M. Chervinsky
  • May 14, 2020
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Revisiting Our Open Invitation to Guest Authors

Some improvements at the Scholarly Kitchen have inspired us to renew our open call for guest authors to join the conversation. Revisiting a 2018 post by @lisalibrarian that explains how it works.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Scholarly Kitchen
  • Apr 22, 2020
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Helping Researchers Communicate Their Findings to the World: An Interview with Emma Feloy of Research Outreach

Research Outreach is a young company that helps researchers make their work more easily intelligible to a lay audience. Editorial Director Emma Feloy answers some questions about how their service works.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Parenting School Aged Children Through a Pandemic

A group of Chefs reflects the struggles we are facing, and the lessons we are learning, about parenting during the pandemic. 

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, David Crotty, Angela Cochran, Karin Wulf, Lettie Y. Conrad, Tao Tao
  • Mar 19, 2020
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

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