Scholarly

Guest Post — Navigating the Drift: Persistence Challenges in the Digital Scientific Record and the Promise of dPIDs
March 14, 2024 at 5:30 am

The internet was not designed to provide a permanent digital record of scientific research. This post looks at current approaches to addressing the shortcomings of the existing Internet technology, identify remaining bottlenecks, and suggest how they could be resolved. Upgrades to the backbone of the scientific record could go a long way toward addressing the…

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Will Schweitzer of Silverchair
March 13, 2024 at 5:30 am

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Will Schweitzer of SilverChair, the independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers.  The post Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Will Schweitzer of Silverchair appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Navigating the Page and The Reader’s Task
March 12, 2024 at 5:30 am

Juggling formats of print vs. digital for books, have developers simply given up on whether there's room to improve navigation and design? The post Navigating the Page and The Reader’s Task appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Amy Brand
March 11, 2024 at 5:30 am

Robert Harington talks to Dr. Amy Brand of MIT Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry. The post Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Amy Brand appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Guest Post — Shared Print & Sustainability through the Looking Glass
March 7, 2024 at 5:30 am

This is the second in our two-part series highlighting the need for shared print, as a community of membership programs working in parallel to a common goal of long term preservation and access to print resources, to evolve in order to become a more cohesive and sustainable national effort The post Guest Post — Shared…

Guest Post — Shared Print Down the Rabbit Hole
March 6, 2024 at 5:30 am

Libraries’ ability to steward print collections in the future is being compromised by how we manage them now. How can we evolve our shared print strategy to align with the core values of libraries, and to increase the value proposition of print collections. Part 1 of 2. The post Guest Post — Shared Print Down…

Are Price, Value, and Openness the Most Important Scholarly Communication Priorities?
March 5, 2024 at 5:30 am

Today, Roger Schonfeld argues that there are scholarly communication priorities that merit focus beyond price, value, and openness and which require cross-sector collaboration. The post Are Price, Value, and Openness the Most Important Scholarly Communication Priorities? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Lauren Kane of BioOne
March 4, 2024 at 5:30 am

In today's Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Lauren Kane of BioOne, a community-based platform that provides global distribution for more than 350 journals and eBooks in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The post Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Lauren Kane of BioOne appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The BTO Goes Electric
March 1, 2024 at 5:30 am

A landmark musical event, as the Boston Typewriter Orchestra breaks new ground. The post The BTO Goes Electric appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.