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Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn of DataCite

In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Matt Buys and Helena Cousijn, respectively Executive Director and Director of Community Engagement for DataCite.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 12, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Sami Benchekroun of Morressier

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Sami Benchekroun, CEO of Morressier, which provides publishers with workflows that ensure research integrity.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 6, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

How We Work, AI, and Human Engagement

In this post Robert Harington looks to Hannah Arendt, and her 1958 book, The Human Condition for help in understanding the nature of how we work, asking how an AI world may affect the nature of our work.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jan 31, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Phoebe McMellon of GeoScienceWorld

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Phoebe McMellon about her career trajectory and her work at GeoScienceWorld.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jan 3, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Fortune Brainstorm AI Conference: Themes and Ideas

Themes and ideas from the Fortune Brainstorm AI. “People won’t lose their jobs to AI; they’ll lose their jobs to people that are using AI.”

  • By Ann Michael
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 30, 2023
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Reflecting on a Decade with the Open Discovery Initiative: Insights from IEEE

Julie Zhu reflects on the IEEE’s journey with the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and the benefits of ODI conformance statements.

  • By Julie Zhu
  • Oct 16, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Web-scale Institutional Search: What are Publishers Doing Today?

Twelve years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are scholarly content providers leveraging ODI conformance statements to drive transparency and usage via web-scale library discovery services?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Aug 16, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Hong Zhou

Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Hong Zhou.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 20, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — The PLOS Union 

PLOS staff are unionizing. How its leadership responds is a test of its vision for inclusive publishing.

  • By Charles Whalley
  • Jun 29, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Vendors: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting

We check in with scholarly publishing vendors for their experiences at the 2023 SSP Annual meeting in Portland.

  • By Tim Vines, Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 20, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — Street Books: A Non-profit Mobile Library Serving the Houseless Residents of Portland

An interview with Laura Moulton, founder of Street Books, a mobile library which serves Portland’s houseless community. SSP annual meeting attendees are invited to bring paperback books to donate to Street Books.

  • By Madelyn Stone
  • May 5, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — In Tough Times the Key is to Think Differently

Alan Harvey from Stanford University Press discusses their evolving strategy in turbulent times.

  • By Alan Harvey
  • Mar 8, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

China and Open Access

An interview with Mark Robertson about the CAST/STM report on open access and China.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Feb 28, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Will Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Consolidate?

Much of the scholarly publishing sector has already experienced a flight to scale. Today, Roger Schonfeld asks: Is a major consolidation among humanities and social sciences publishers coming next?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 22, 2023
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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