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A visit to the world's longest running video rental store and a lesson about the value of inconvenience. The post Ritual, Process, and Social Interaction: The World’s Oldest Surviving Video Rental Store appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

On February 26th, Phill Jones gate-crashed the 2nd STM association research data workshop. Here's what he learned about the progress being made and that challenges ahead in making data sharable, open, and maybe even FAIR. The post Is it Finally the Year of Research Data? – The STM Association Thinks So appeared first on The…

Open peer review hasn’t caught on in the humanities, but it has been part of ongoing experiments in humanities publishing. As the American Historical Review tries open review, what lessons can we take from previous experiments? The post Guest Post — Open Peer Review in the Humanities appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Dr. Jie Xu from the Wuhan University of China offers a view of how Chinese researchers are reacting and are likely to alter their behavior in response to new policies governing research evaluation. The post Guest Post — How China’s New Policy May Change Researchers’ Publishing Behavior appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity -- and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications. The post Humans are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

What if you used a computer to generate every possible song and then put it in the public domain? Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin did just that. The post Every Pop Melody Possible is Now in the Public Domain appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

A new set of policies mark an effort to largely reform the research and higher education evaluation systems in China. The potential impact on the STM publishing sector is examined. The post New Chinese Policy Could Reshape Global STM Publishing appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Rob Johnson of Research Consulting and Vanessa Proudman of SPARC Europe look at a recent survey of of European funders to explore what's being done to drive change in scholarly communication, and argue that funders’ open policies could be backed up more by funders’ own practices. The post Guest Post — An Open Agenda: European…

One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can't have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom? The post Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian? appeared first on The Scholarly…

The major US library consortium OhioLINK has created a vision for the systems that libraries use for acquiring content from publishers, managing collections, and enabling discovery. An interview about this vision with executive director Gwen Evans, The post “Recenter Library Systems on the User”: An Interview with OhioLINK’s Gwen Evans appeared first on The Scholarly…