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A new collaboration between JSTOR and the social annotation tool Hypothesis has seen more instructional uses of content and greater engagement among students with the material. The post Guest Post — Students Need to Learn How to Read Scholarly Articles: Here’s How Technology Can Help appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
Haseeb Irfanullah discusses how Communities of Practice can improve scholarly communications by capitalizing on our collective experiences. The post Preparing Editors for Emerging Challenges appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
It's Friday. Time to zone out with a film of pencils being manufactured in Japan. The post Hypnotic Pencil Manufacturing appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors. The post Guest Post — Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change. The post Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say. appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
We are off today and tomorrow for the US Independence Day holiday. Also included, a song that hews carefully to archaic rules about prepositions at the end of sentences. The post Off for the US Holiday — More Grammar appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
Is there a "right" way to speak, or is language policing more revealing about the anxiety of the scolder than the expression of the speaker? The post The Power Imbalances of Language Policing appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
PLOS staff are unionizing. How its leadership responds is a test of its vision for inclusive publishing. The post Guest Post — The PLOS Union appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
Shamsi Brinn (UX Manager at arXiv) and Bill Kasdorf (Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC) discuss the recent Accessibility Forum hosted by arXiv. Over 2,000 people registered for the Forum; over 350 attended the live event; and hundreds more are accessing the recently published videos. The post Guest Post — Making Research Accessible: The arXiv…
Will artificial intelligence fatally undermine the integrity of scholarly publishing? A formal debate from the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. The post SSP Conference Debate: AI and the Integrity of Scholarly Publishing appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.