Scholarly

Annotation is increasingly being recognized as a valuable tool in scholarly communications, enabling increased engagement and collaboration and better metrics, and helping improve the quality of scholarly outputs. In this guest post, Heather Staines (Director of Business Development - Hypothes.is) and Alexander Naydenov (Head of Marketing and Co-Founder - Paperhive) tell us why! The post…

Learn about a new approach to article sharing in this interview with Maria Ritolo, co-founder of Iris.ai, developer of R4R -- a tool that enables researchers to more easily share their research on request. The post A New Approach to Article Sharing: Interview with Maria Ritola of Iris.ai appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Clown faces painted onto eggs as a method for registering copyright. Shudder. The post A Solution for Copyright Reform: The Clown Egg Register appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The apparently different approaches Kopernio, Unpaywall, and Anywhere Access are taking might have a common assumption at their hearts -- the status quo. The post The New Plugins — What Goals Are the Access Solutions Pursuing? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Scholars are interested in discovering libraries and archives as institutional producers of knowledge, not only using them as providers of resources. The post Libraries and Archives: A Humanities Take on Discovery appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Have you visited the SSP library lately? It's a treasure trove of information about scholarly communications, including videos of the sessions from this year's Annual Meeting. The post The SSP Library — A Valuable Resource for Scholarly Communications appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Institutional and consumer markets are becoming more closely linked because of Amazon's powerful value proposition, making it necessary for academic book publishers to create consumer services of their own. The post Rival Ecosystems: The Increasingly Porous Boundary between Institutional and Consumer Markets appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Donald Samulack offers thoughts on typesetting, design, font choice and how the brain processes information to create meaning. The post Guest Post: Reflections on Text and Language Perception, and the Ramifications for Publishing Workflows appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

For social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan. The post Guest Post: Challenges for Academics…

Library consortia are taking stronger positions with scholarly publishers, not just in Europe but in North America as well. In this interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Kimberly Armstrong about BTAA's principles, concerns, and tactics. The post Advocating for Change by Limiting New Business: An Interview with BTAA’s Kimberly Armstrong appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.