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Hypnotic Highlighters and Crayons

Some Friday Zen as Highlighter markers are made, and a classic trip to the crayon factory is revisited.

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 3, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 3

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “Accelerating DEI: Have the Data? Use the Data!”

  • By Susan Spilka, Nicola Poser, Michelle Urberg
  • Dec 1, 2021
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  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting, Part 2

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at “The Glass Ceiling You Don’t Know About Yet”.

  • By Simon Holt, Georgie Field, Nicola Poser, Damita Snow, Hannah Vinchur, George Neame
  • Nov 30, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Community Reflections: Takeaways from the Diversity Sessions at SSP’s 43rd Annual Meeting Part 1

This week a series of posts looking back at the lessons learned from SSP Meeting DEI sessions. Today’s post looks at Dr. Joseph Williams’s keynote, “Fighting Racial Inequity in the Publishing Industry”.

  • By Cason Lynley, Miranda Walker, Steven D. Smith, George Neame, Dana Compton
  • Nov 29, 2021
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  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read (and more!) During 2021, Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year (and more!). Today we offer Part 2 of our suggestions.

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Charlie Rapple, Alice Meadows, Angela Cochran, Alison Mudditt, Karin Wulf, Judy Luther
  • Nov 23, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 14 mins

Guest Post — Seeking Feedback on a Model Digital Preservation Policy, a Project of the NASIG Digital Preservation Committee

A look at the NASIG Digital Preservation Policy and a request for comments.

  • By Abeni Wickham
  • Nov 17, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — Translating Digital Humanities Skills From College to Career

Sarah Ketchley and Lindsey Gervais discuss the value offered by programs in the digital humanities .

  • By Sarah Ketchley, Lindsey Gervais
  • Nov 15, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

SSP 2022 Annual Meeting Submission Deadline is Approaching — Don’t Miss Out!

The Society for Scholarly Publishing’s 44th Annual Meeting will be held June 1–3, 2022, and there’s still time to submit your proposals

  • By Yael Fitzpatrick, Lori Carlin, Tim Lloyd
  • Nov 11, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)

Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 10, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

What (Not) to Do When Libraries Won’t Get on Board

Why aren’t libraries providing support for your open access or open science initiative? Be careful what you assume.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 4, 2021
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Job Hunting with an “Invisible” Disability: A Conversation

Today’s guest post — the second in a series of two — is a conversation between Katy Alexander and Sylvia Hunter about job hunting with a disability in the publishing industry. 

  • By Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Katy Alexander
  • Oct 28, 2021
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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).

  • By Simon Holt, Erin Osborne-Martin
  • Oct 27, 2021
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post – Transforming the Transformative Agreement

Brigitte Shull from Cambridge University Press looks at the lessons learned so far from transformative agreements and how they continue to evolve.

  • By Brigitte Shull
  • Oct 20, 2021
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Celebrating 25 Years of Preserving the Web

Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been capturing the World Wide Web but also doing so much more to preserve our digital world behind the scenes.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 19, 2021
  • 24 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

We Are Seeking a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Associate Editor

The Scholarly Kitchen is seeking a new editor for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility coverage.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 18, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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