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Marketing to the New Generation of Academic Influencers: Mobile First, SEO, Values-led Content and Initiatives

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 13, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Fill in the Blank Leads to More Citations

When a reputable journal refuses to get involved with a questionable paper, science looks less like a self-correcting enterprise and more like a way to amass media attention.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 8, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record

In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle — from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.

  • By Michele Avissar-Whiting
  • Jun 7, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Next Steps for CRediT – An Interview with the Co-Chairs

With CRediT now formalized as a standard, Alice Meadows interviews Liz Allen, Simon Kerridge, and Alison McGonagle O’Connell (cochairs of the working group) about what’s next for the taxonomy

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 24, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Ghost of Publishing Past: George Gissing’s “New Grub Street”

A lesson in publishing’s past is provided by George Gissing’s Victorian Era novel.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 23, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Hybrid Versus In-person: What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences?

Marco Marabelli reports on the results of a study looking at the benefits and problems of remote and hybrid conferences, and what the changes in recent years will mean for meetings going forward.

  • By Marco Marabelli
  • May 16, 2022
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?

A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 11, 2022
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Is Infrastructure Consolidation the Next Step? CCC Acquires Ringgold

In the light of CCCs acquisition of Ringgold last week, three Chefs, Phill Jones, Roger Schonfeld, and Todd Carpenter reflect on the motivations for the move and its implications for PIDs and organisational identifiers.

  • By Phill Jones, Roger C. Schonfeld, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 10, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Weaponizing the Research Community

The research community is increasingly caught up in geopolitical events and strategies.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 5, 2022
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Elsevier to Acquire Interfolio

Elsevier intends to acquire Interfolio, the provider of researcher career management services. This deal could offer a lift to Elsevier in its competition with the new Clarivate — if Elsevier can integrate Interfolio effectively.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 25, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Indigenous Knowledge and Research Infrastructure: An Interview with Katharina Ruckstuhl

Today’s interview, with Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl of the University of Otago, looks at why and how we should implement research infrastructure processes that support Indigenous knowledge. 

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 19, 2022
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Unreachable/ Unwritable Histories: Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe

First in a series on histories made difficult or impossible though war or climate disasters, this post features two historians of Russia and Eastern Europe.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 7, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Welcoming Dianndra Roberts as The Scholarly Kitchen’s DEIA Associate Editor

Dianndra Roberts is joining The Scholarly Kitchen as the Associate Editor focusing on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • Apr 4, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

What an Urban Historian and a Physicist Can Tell Us About Building Community…

Meet the keynote speakers for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Mar 31, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post: A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?

Mark Hahnel looks at the progress that’s been made toward open research data — what’s been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?

  • By Mark Hahnel
  • Mar 30, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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