Guest Post — The Evolving Role of Scientific Editing
In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor’s role changes as much as the reviewer’s role. Editors share some insights about how this works at JOSS.
Start-up Stories: Skilltype
Continuing a series looking at start-ups in the scholarly sector, from what they do and how it could be useful, to how they have got started, and tips they would share with other entrepreneurs. This time, an interview with Tony Zanders, founder and CEO of Skilltype.
Pandemic Post Roundup
Collecting some key posts on scholarly communications during the pandemic, as we enter into a new wave of infection.
Guest Post — Equity is Possible: Forging Paths toward Equity and Anti-Racism in Scholarly Publishing
In this guest post, Gisela Fosado and Cathy Rimer-Surles of Duke UP share highlights and a video from their panel session on equity at the 2019 AUPresses Annual Meeting, plus helpful recommendations to help us achieve equity in scholarly communications.
The Academy Mobilizes – Unizin Tackles Learning Analytics
Judy Luther takes an in-depth look at Unizin, a consortial effort by universities to build open source digital learning systems.
Identifying and Responding to Micro-aggressions at Work: An Interview with Dr. Joseph Williams
Dr Joseph Williams, an expert in multicultural and social justice training, is delivering a pre-conference workshop on micro-aggressions at the SSP Annual Meeting. Find out more in this interview!
Guest Post — One Society’s Journey towards Equity
Randy Townsend from the American Geophysical Union discusses the strides that organization has made toward equity and diversity.