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.
Imposters and Impersonators in Preprints: How do we trust authors in Open Science?
Preprints play a crucial role in open science but offer an opportunity to be gamed. Fictitious authorship in preprints show that open science needs checks and we need to collaborate to govern Open Science.
Guest Post — Building an Easier Path Toward Open Access Book Publishing: Support for Authors
Christina Emery presents an updated overview of the open access books landscape and examines the challenges of open access book publishing according to feedback from authors and researchers, plus what support is available to them.
Guest Post — Inclusion: The Key to Delivering Successful Business Change
Laura Martin offers suggestions for how to take an inclusive approach to change to givesyour organization the best chance of success.
Driving Responsibly with Identity Management (Part 2: A Case Study)
Emerald Publishing’s identity strategy aims to re-conceive their publishing platform as a digital experience that builds emotive connections with users and seamlessly delivers the answers they need.
Guest Post – Scientific Output in the Year of COVID, An Update
An update and a correction for an earlier post on research publication growth in 2020.
Guest Post — What Should A Conference Cost?
Mark Carden looks at the many factors that go into organizing a conference and how that leads to the event’s pricing.
Sci-Hub Citation Study Confuses Causes With Effects
Do Sci-Hub downloads cause more citations, or are high impact papers simply downloaded more often?
Changing Journal Impact Factor Rules Creates Unfair Playing Field For Some
Some journals are expected to benefit immensely under Clarivate’s new counting model.
Guest Post — Citing Software in Scholarly Publishing to Improve Reproducibility, Reuse, and Credit
Daniel Katz and Hollydawn Murray present the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s guidelines for citing the software used in research publications.
Truth and Lies
How to address lies in the political life of a democracy? Education, information literacy, gatekeeping, and dialogue are not enough. Lisa Hinchliffe and Roger Schonfeld examine the issue.
Historians in Historic Times
Historians have been working overtime to contextualize the ongoing pandemic and the political crises. Read the reflections of scholars who published major projects on how their work intersects with and informs and is informed by the history we’re living.
Guest Post — Evaluating Publishers as Partners with Libraries and Higher Education
Rachel Caldwell presents PAPPI, a proposed matrix for determining how well a publisher or vendor aligns with the mission of libraries.
Pandemic Perspectives: Volunteer Projects Continue Progress
2020 looked like a year where volunteer-driven projects were likely to be put on hold. The good news is that so many continued to thrive and progress, despite the pandemic.
The Year in Review: 2020 In The Scholarly Kitchen
What a strange year 2020 was, in so many ways. Here, a look at the numbers for The Scholarly Kitchen for the past 365 days.