Guest Post — Love in the Time of COVID: Lessons in Change Management and Hope Amid the Chaos
Lily Garcia Walton discusses Silverchair’s ongoing adaptation of working spaces and policies as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
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.
Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”
Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.
Guest Post: Preprint Feedback is Here – Let’s Make it Constructive and FAST
ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.
Some Perspectives on Disability Disclosure in the Publishing Industry
Today’s guest post, by Simon Holt and Erin Osborne-Martin, is the first of two looking at the experiences of people with disabilities in scholarly publishing (the second will be published tomorrow).
Ask The Chefs: How Does Identity Influence Peer Review?
In anticipation of #PeerReviewWeek21 we asked the Chefs about the role of identity in peer review. See what they said and share your views!
Experimental Sleight-of-Hand and Choice Blindness
An experimenter uses a bit of magic in their research protocol to expose how stubbornly we want to justify the decisions we’ve made.
Guest Post — “Leave the Party While You’re Having Fun”: An Interview with Suzanne BeDell upon her Retirement
Simon Holt interviews Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director of Elsevier’s Education and Reference content, which encompasses Elsevier’s books business, upon her retirement.
Changing Journal Impact Factor Rules Creates Unfair Playing Field For Some
Some journals are expected to benefit immensely under Clarivate’s new counting model.
Changes to Journal Impact Factor Announced for 2021
Starting 2021, Journal Impact Factors will be calcuated using online publication dates, not print ones. But phased roll-out may lead to bias for some journals.
There is No Truth, There is Only Workflow
The crisis of information integrity is real. Integrity of workflow — analyses of process, investment in process, transparency of process — is the intervention
Getting Beyond Bias to Make the Career Impact You Desire: An Interview with Scismic’s Elizabeth Wu and Danika Khong
An interview with Elizabeth Wu and Danika Khong about their new tool to help reduce bias and increase fit for research careers.
Guest Post — Risks from Self-Referential Peer Review: An Interview with Jeffrey Unerman
Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Bahar Mehmani of Elsevier, who interviewed Professor Jeffrey Unerman about his work on the risks of self-referential peer review.
Guest Post — An Antiracist Framework for Scholarly Publishing
Introducing The Antiracism Toolkit for Allies, an antiracism resource for the scholarly publishing community.
Ask The Chefs: Do’s And Don’ts Of Data
Is the value of data in decision making all hype? How can we leverage data to server our mission, customers, and our own operational effectiveness?