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With yet another stumble from Twitter/X, Angela Cochran looks at the numbers and asks whether all the efforts journals have put into building and maintaining journal Twitter accounts have been worth it. The post Worth the Time? A Critical Look at the Value of Twitter for Journals appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

A mixed bag post from us -- can you separate out the significance of research results from their validity? What will the collapse of the Humanities mean for scholarly publishing writ large? And a new draft set of recommended practices for communicating retractions, removals, and expressions of concern. The post Smorgasbord: eLife and Significance vs.…

The COVID pandemic brought changes in what was acceptable to working life. Should we give up those benefits for the sake of returning to the office? How does each individual person's experience differ, and how can we create conditions that allow all to thrive? The post The Post-Covid Work Environment — We Can’t Go Back…

Julie Zhu reflects on the IEEE's journey with the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and the benefits of ODI conformance statements. The post Guest Post — Reflecting on a Decade with the Open Discovery Initiative: Insights from IEEE appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

"This library has every book ever published." A visit to the British Library. The post The British Library: The Importance of Legal Deposit appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Are there enough reviewers though to meet demand and is the peer review process efficient enough to handle the sheer volume of papers being published? How can a combination of human expertise and AI make the peer review process more efficient? The post The Peer Review Renaissance: An Urgent Call for Transformation appeared first on…

Today, Roohi Ghosh officially joins us as a regular contributor in The Scholarly Kitchen. The post Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Roohi Ghosh appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future. The post AI and Scholarly Societies appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The role of libraries and archives as streaming grows, choice declines, and the death of the red envelopes arrives. The post Libraries, Archives, Choice and Red Envelopes: The Growth of Streaming, the Decline of Choice, and the Death of the Red Envelope appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Here I propose a framework for a Voluntary Contribution Transaction system to recognize the voluntary contributions in the scholarly workflow and to give tangible benefits to the volunteers. The post Building a Voluntary Contribution Transaction System appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.