Reanalysis of Tweeting Study Yields No Citation Benefit
Scientific authorship comes with benefits, but also responsibilities. If authors are unwilling to explain their work, editors must step up to defend their journal.
Guest Post — The Covid Infodemic and the Future of the Communication of Science
ResearchGate’s Joseph DeBruin looks at the balance between speed and uncertainty in scholarly communication, and how technology can facilitate better information travel.
Guest Post — Pivoting your Conference: Pandemic as the Mother of Invention
Simon Inger rethinks the online conference through the lens of product development.
Ask The Interns: What Is The Value Of Internships?
Have you benefited from an internship (giving or receiving!)? This month we talk to interns and internship managers to hear what value internships have brought to them and the industry.
Guest Post — Navigating Your Career in Publishing: Introducing the SSP Professional Skills Map
The Professional Skills Map, initiated by the SSP Career Development Committee aims to guide scholarly publishing professionals across industries and career levels in recognizing their personal strengths and interpersonal and technical skills, and then map those skill sets to fitting roles across the industry, empowering them to advance in their current roles and explore potential career paths they may not have previously considered.
[Virtual] Conference Season Is Here: Are you prepared?
This year’s conference season will look a lot different than last year’s. Here are some tips to getting the most out of attending a virtual conference.
Equity in Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with the Workplace Equity Project
The findings of the Workplace Equity Project’s 2018 survey have recently been published as a peer-reviewed article in Learned Publishing – learn more in this interview with WEP founders Susan Spilka, Simone Taylor, and Jeri Wachter
Happy Juneteenth!
Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate the oldest national commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Let us all continue to learn what we must learn, do what we must do, so that our nation can be what we want it to be.
Connecting by Reading: A Selection of Books on Race and Racism, Part 2
Today’s post includes part 2 of books about race and racism. When we read, we learn about each other and open our minds to other perspectives.
We Step Aside: Racism and Medicine
This week The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs step off stage in order to spotlight research and researchers writing about racism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Today’s spotlight is the “Racism in Medicine” issue of The BMJ.
Collective Voices: The Society for Scholarly Publishing Joins in Making a Statement Against Racism
Reaffirming our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Humanities Research Infrastructure is Great ROI — Will We Sell it Short?
Humanities Research Infrastructure is critical social investment, and we could support it better if we understood it better.
Guest Post — Building Resilient Learned Societies in an Age of Pandemic and Fear
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, learned societies are facing some challenges that call for adaptive-transformative resilience. Guest author Trevor Perry-Giles discusses steps societies must take in crafting a “new normalcy” for sustainability.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast: Episode 3
This third episode of the SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast covers the topic of ‘living under lockdown’ during the current global coronavirus pandemic.
Ask The Chefs: Permanent Change?
So much change has happened in the last few months. What changes do you think will “stick” in scholarly publishing?