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Erich van Rijn looks at the University of California's Luminos open access books program and reviews lessons learned and what is needed for such programs to succeed. The post Guest Post — Charleston 2022 — Finding Paths to Open Access Book Publishing appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Funder guidance is too vague when it comes to identifiers and metadata. It needs to get specific to be effective. The post We All Know What We Mean, Can We Just Put It In The Policy? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

eLife's recent announcement that it will reinvent itself as a "service that reviews preprints” has generated much discussion over recent weeks. But what are the primary drivers and goals, and what might we all learn from this bold experiment? The post Innovation at eLife: An Interview with Damian Pattinson appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Though open access indicators within a given publishing platform are relatively consistent, significant inconsistency across platforms likely creates user confusion. The post A Failure to Communicate: Indicators of Open Access in the User Interface appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Significant breakthroughs in jargon have enabled the development of the hyper encabulator, sure to serve all your encabulation needs. The post A History of Encabulation — Advancements From the Turbo Encabulator and the Retro Encabulator Have Led to the Hyper Encabulator appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Eleven years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are ODI conformance statements helping to drive transparency and cross-sector improvements to web-scale library discovery services? The post Web-scale Library Search: Where Are We Today? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Mark Robertson and Rachel Moriarty discuss the STM Association's Mentorship Program. The post Guest Post — The STM Mentorship Program appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Christos Petrou analyzes changes in the speed of publication of research articles over the last ten years. The post Guest Post – Publishing Fast and Slow: A Review of Publishing Speed in the Last Decade appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

On the occasion of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Haseeb Md. Irfanullah explores scholarly publishers’ role in tackling climate crisis. The post Climate Action: Are We Committed Enough? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The Chicago Field Museum's basement holds a collection of some 11 million specimens, preserved and stored in fluid. The post A Library of 11 Million Fluid Specimens appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.