Pandemic Post Roundup
Collecting some key posts on scholarly communications during the pandemic, as we enter into a new wave of infection.
Guest Post — Risks from Self-Referential Peer Review: An Interview with Jeffrey Unerman
Peer Review Week 2020 continues with a guest post by Bahar Mehmani of Elsevier, who interviewed Professor Jeffrey Unerman about his work on the risks of self-referential peer review.
Guest Post — Driving Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications: The Power of an Active ERG
A look at how Employee Resource Groups can create positive change in the workplace.
Guest Post — Disclosing Disability in the Workplace
Disclosing a disability in the workplace is fraught with difficulty. In today’s guest post, Bruce Rosenblum of Inera shares his experience.
Guest Post — Pivoting your Conference: Pandemic as the Mother of Invention
Simon Inger rethinks the online conference through the lens of product development.
The Scholarly Kitchen Mid-Year (in a very strange year)
In lieu of the SSP Annual Meeeting this month, a mid-year readership report for a very strange year.
Guest Post — On Working from Home in a Pandemic
Gabe Harp from MIT Press offers tips on how to maximize your efficiency and preserve your sanity while working from home.
Revisiting Our Open Invitation to Guest Authors
Some improvements at the Scholarly Kitchen have inspired us to renew our open call for guest authors to join the conversation. Revisiting a 2018 post by @lisalibrarian that explains how it works.
Guest Post — Coronavirus is a Wakeup Call for Academic Conferences. Here’s Why
This guest post by Sami Benchekroun and Michelle Kuepper of Morressier highlights some of the tools available for digitizing conferences and disseminate important early stage research information.
Guest Post — An Update to OhioLINK’s Affordable Textbooks Initiative
Gwen Evans from OhioLink looks at the positive results of the consortium’s statewide affordable textbooks initiative.
Guest Post — “I Say Tom-ay-to, You Say Tom-ah-to”: Bias Against Non-Native English Speakers in Scholarly Communications
In today’s guest post, Kasia Repeta of Duke University Press focuses on the often-overlooked issue of bias against those who speak English with an accent and urges us all to be more inclusive.
The Year in Review: 2019 In The Scholarly Kitchen
As we sign off for 2019, a look back at the year in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Guest Post: Interesting Versus True? Measuring Transparency and Reproducibility of Biomedical Articles
Today’s guest post, by Anita Bandrowski and Martijn Roelandse, highlights some of the challenges – and opportunities – of evaluating the quality of research rather than its impact.
Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Tao Tao
Welcoming a new Chef in the Kitchen, Tao Tao.
Guest Post — The Future of FAIR, as Told by the Past
Where will FAIR end up? What will be its value to research data management stakeholders? To see into the future, Brian Lavoie of OCLC suggests we start by looking into the past in this guest post.