New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data
Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.
Mental Health Awareness — Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Durrant, Lead from Within (Parts 3 & 4)
A fireside chat with Sarah Durrant; independent coach and transformational teacher, on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. Today, parts 3 & 4.
Mental Health Awareness — Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Durrant, Lead from Within (Parts 1 & 2)
A fireside chat with Sarah Durrant; independent coach and transformational teacher, on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. Today, parts 1 & 2.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tasha Mellins-Cohen of COUNTER
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of COUNTER Metrics (formerly Project COUNTER), which plays a critical role in enabling consistent usage metrics reporting.
What Universities — and Libraries, Researchers, and Publishers? — Owe Democracy
Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are imperiled.
Guest Post — Shifting Away from Yearly Accessibility Audits: How Can a Better System be Implemented?
Justin Alexander from ITHAKA discusses effective ways to continuously ensure that media meets accessibility requirements.
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.
Sci-Hub Citation Study Confuses Causes With Effects
Do Sci-Hub downloads cause more citations, or are high impact papers simply downloaded more often?
What a Mangled Press Conference on COVID Can Tell Us About the Need for Good Data Storytelling
Last week the UK government COVID held a press briefing in an attempt to get the country behind new travel and social restrictions. What lessons can we learn from this bad example of how not to present evidence to support our positions?
Changing Jobs During a Pandemic
Changing jobs can be stressful in normal times, but during a global pandemic and with everyone working from home, special considerations must be made. In this post, Angela Cochran and Jennifer Regala share their recent experiences.
We Step Aside: Indigenous Deaths in Custody in Australia
This week The Scholarly Kitchen is spotlighting research and researchers writing about systemic racism. Today’s post is about the deaths of Indigenous people in custody in Australia.
Isn’t Leakage Good for Libraries?
Leakage has strengthened libraries’ negotiating position with respect to content providers. The emerging syndication model syndication offers libraries the opportunity to provide dramatically improve the research experience for their users — with a number of risks as well, including the prospect of substantially reducing their leverage at the negotiating table.