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In the last of this series of posts about this year's Annual Meeting, SSP's Marketing and Communications Committee asked members of our community what the conference meant to them. The post Ask the Community: What Did SSP 2023 Mean to You? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

What does the timeline of human existence look like when physically laid out to scale? How does that compare to the timeline of the universe? The post The Size of Things: Time in Context appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Libraries continue to sign Transformative Agreements while becoming increasingly convinced that they do not represent the desired transformation. Peter Barr explains why this happens. The post Guest Post — Why Are UK Libraries Signing a Springer-Nature Deal They Don’t Seem to Like? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The ORCID US consortium, managed by Lyrasis, is five years old in 2023 - hear about their progress so far and plans for the future in Alice Meadows' interview with their PID Program Leader, Sheila Raybun The post The ORCID US Consortium at Five: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and Why? appeared first on The Scholarly…

We check in with scholarly publishing vendors for their experiences at the 2023 SSP Annual meeting in Portland. The post Ask the Vendors: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Quick, without looking, what color is the sun? Would you believe it's green? Also, please don't look directly at the sun. The post What Color is the Sun? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

We ask the 2023 SSP Fellows: “What was the highlight of attending SSP 2023 for you?” The post Ask the Fellows: SSP 2023 Annual Meeting appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is celebrating its 10-year anniversary, a great opportunity to reflect on how far we have come with open infrastructures for the distribution and discoverability of open access books (monographs, edited collections, and other long-form publications). The post Guest Post — Towards Global Equity for Open Access Books  appeared…

"Researchers have only so many hours in a day; if they can spend one less hour on a research article because we have implemented improved workflows and better technology, that’s one more hour they can spend on research to try to save my life, and the lives of all ALS patients." In today's post, Bruce…

Is there value to be found in national, or language based preprint servers? Matthew Salter discusses lessons learned from the first year of Japan's Jxiv. The post Guest Post — A Year of Jxiv – Warming the Preprints Stone appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.