Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Roy Kaufman
Welcoming Roy Kaufman on board as a Chef in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Books Are For Use and What That Means
We don’t talk very much about physical production values for books. What message does that send to readers of scholarly titles?
Important Capybara Update
The latest developments in Capybara science.
A History of Encabulation — Advancements From the Turbo Encabulator and the Retro Encabulator Have Led to the Hyper Encabulator
Significant breakthroughs in jargon have enabled the development of the hyper encabulator, sure to serve all your encabulation needs.
Standards for Road Signs and Why Signs in the US Are So Different from the Rest of the World
Why do US road signs look different from those seen in the rest of the world?
The 2022 Small (Microscopic) World in Motion
This year’s crop of Nikon Small World imaging award winners continues to highlight the amazing progress made in the world of microscopy.
The Size of Things: Now with Physics!
Visualizing the world at different scales, with some physics of what your experience at tiny sizes might be like.
Smorgasbord: A Better Metaphor for Publishing, Twitter/Musk, Equitable Access, and Those Vexing OACA Experimental Controls
A new type of post from us today, offering a smorgasbord of opinions on topics including the ongoing Twitter/Elon Musk saga, just what “equitable access” to the literature means, the ongoing lack of experimental controls in one area of bibliometric analysis, and whether journals are more like a gate or a sewer.
Post-publication Peer Review via the Ig Nobel Prizes
It’s that time of year again, the 2022 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced.
It’s Peer Review Week Video Time!
Enjoy a host of peer review related videos from the Peer Review Week team!
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 11: Industry Primer– Marketing in the Scholarly Publishing Landscape
This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast serves as a primer on the marketing role within scholarly publishing- what marketing professionals do, how they amplify the customer voice through products and services, and the various contexts and conversations this work can happen within.
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.
Design Matters: Why Are Company Logos Simplifying?
A look at recent trends in brand logo design, and why things are becoming simpler.
Still Ambiguous at Best? Revisiting “If We Don’t Know What Citations Mean, What Does it Mean When We Count Them”
If we don’t know what citations mean, what does it mean when we count them? Revisiting a 2015 (!) post in light of recent developments in citation metrics and impact.
Bad Handwriting, Undeliverable Mail, and Improvements in OCR
The question of what happens to your mail when the address is illegible offers a view on how much OCR technology has improved.