An SSP Meeting Session showing the results from publisher partnerships with Researchgate suggest the company is shifting from a source of potential infringement to a distribution channel that is being folded into more and more organizations.
To what extent are scholarly publishers and societies actively engaging with early career researchers? Findings from a white paper, and polls at the SSP annual meeting, are shared.
Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.
The story of white bread’s rise and fall offers a lesson in the circular nature of manufacturing and consumer culture.
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.
Conclusions and responses taken to last year’s Scholarly Kitchen reader survey.
Today, Judy Verses starts as Elsevier’s President for Academic and Government, completing CEO Kumsal Bayazit’s market-based leadership structure for platform-driven corporate strategy.
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.
The value of streaming video as a genre of scholarly communication is just being established. Today, Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger profile the leading start-ups in this space.
Dianndra Roberts is joining The Scholarly Kitchen as the Associate Editor focusing on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.
Mark Carden offers lessons learned from year of running an online conference in 2021, designing a hybrid conference for 2022, and observing what event providers have offered and delegates have experienced.
For those in the business of information, it’s time to elevate our thinking from the transactional to the experiential. Information experience design (IXD) offers an inclusive, participatory approach that embraces the diversity of our user communities.
Justin Alexander from ITHAKA discusses effective ways to continuously ensure that media meets accessibility requirements.
Does today’s news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar?
In light of the recent anniversary of the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we revisit Rick Anderson’s post on how journalists flag unsupported claims and blatant falsehoods, and whether preprint platforms should do the same.