Guest Post — Space and Grace in Open Access Publishing
We should strive for open but also be realistic about the options truly available to researchers and discuss them transparently and honestly.
Experiences Behind the Data: Making Human Sense of Pandemic Usage Reports
As publishers and librarians draw conclusions from the last year of usage data, we must look to qualitative analysis to round out the picture of the human conditions behind the quantitative trends.
Revisiting: The Problem with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Today we revisit Geraldine Cochran’s 2018 post, which offers a chance to understand the differences between the words “diversity”, “inclusion”, and “equity”, and how that understanding can make our efforts toward progress more effective.
XKCD on the Types of Scientific Papers — What Would You Add to this List?
Randall Munroe gives us the real scoop on what scientific papers are saying. Your suggestions welcome as well.
New Open Access Business Models — What’s Needed to Make Them Work?
A look at a session from last week’s CHORUS Forum that discussed new open access business models — what does it take to make them work?
Guest Post — Building the Last Mile: A Plan for Bringing the Expanding Universe of Digital Primary Sources into Classrooms
Getting digitized primary source materials into the classroom requires an open dialogue among researchers, teachers, and archivists. A workshop from historians of business shows how.
Essential Technologies: The Tally Stick
From the Upper Paleolithic Era up until the mid 1800s, the tally stick was a remarkably long-lived piece of technology.
Guest Post — A Unified, Common Ground Approach to Open
Global initiatives in open are decentralized and disconnected, lacking researcher input and buy-in. An “opens solutions” approach can both embrace and leverage that diversity, ensuring that it all contributes to the greater whole.
Guest Post — Scholarly Communication, Plumbing, and JATS4R
Like a home renovation, content standards, like JATS4R, involve surprises & inter-dependencies, demanding our teamwork & flexibility.
Publishers Care about the Version of Record, Do Researchers?
Study of researchers indicates that a preprint or accepted manuscript can substitute for the version of record in some use cases but not all.
Introducing STM Solutions – An interview with Hylke Koers and Ian Moss
On April 1, STM Innovations was launched. Chef Todd Carpenter spoke with the new CIO Hylke Koers and Ian Moss to discuss its mission and goals
Guest Post — Tips for Producing a Successful Community Podcast
Juan Fuentes talks to Meredith Adinolfi and Sara Grimme about what they’ve learned from producing the SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast.
Guest Post — Library Vendor Platforms Need a Strategic Reboot to Meet Librarian Curriculum Development Needs
David Parker looks at platform strategy for supporting learning and curriculum development.
Guest Post — A Model for Peer-to-Peer Workplace Learning
Gabe Harp discusses MIT Press’ “Skill Exchange”, a peer to peer program to foster learning and professional development.
Guest Post — Why Learned Societies and Academic Publishers Can Benefit from Hiring PhDs
Learned societies and academic publishers may find that someone with a PhD can offer advantages, such as an insider knowledge of academia.