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How one company uses a decidedly analog technology to generate random numbers for encryption. The post Lava Lamps and Internet Security appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Why is increasing diversity in scholarly communications seemingly so difficult? What should we be doing differently? The post Ask The Chefs: How Can We Increase Diversity In Scholarly Communications? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Open data is gaining ground, but is there a revenue stream that would help journals recover the costs of gathering, reviewing and publishing data? The post Is There a Business Case for Open Data? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Welcoming Tim Vines back to The Scholarly Kitchen. The post Welcoming Back Tim Vines appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Is "signal" meaningful in the absence of "noise"? Damon Krukowski asks what important things have been lost in our transition from analog to digital media in his book, "The New Analog". The post Book Review: “The New Analog” by Damon Krukowski appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Information manipulation is not new, yet everything is different. How do governments, preprints, algorithms, and our own responsibilities intersect? Where does peer review come in now? The post Puppetmasters — Who Is Pulling the Strings in the New Information Economy? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Testimonials to the importance of university presses. The post University Press Week 2017 appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Evolving forms of digital scholarship such a 3-D images, multimedia, and geographic data are relatively new elements in the scholar’s workflow. These formats appear in stark contrast to the legacy books and journal articles required for career advancement within the […] The post Innovative Research and Creative Output: From Ideas to Impact appeared first on…

Hoping to woo authors away from commercial publishers, a group of biomedical science societies have launched a new alliance to promote the value of publishing in society journals. The post Biological Science Societies Hope to Convince Authors to Stay in the Society Family appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Scientific workflow providers Elsevier, Digital Science, and COS differ in their strategy. To what extent will they provide end-to-end integrated workflows? The post Strategy & Integration Among Workflow Providers appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.