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Revisiting Jasmine Wallace's 2019 primer on best practices for peer reviewers. The post Revisiting: How to Be A Good Peer Reviewer appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

We're off for the long weekend. Some musical reading suggestions for your summer are offered. The post Off for the Fourth of July — A Few Recent Book Reviews With Musical Accompaniment appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Why did a certain band eliminate brown M&M's from their dressing room? And what does that have to do with the formatting requirements at some journals? Nathan Stevenson explains. The post Guest Post — Of Brown M&M’s and Publishing in Academic Journals appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

At a recent meeting, a debate was held on the motion: Preprints are going to replace journals. I was asked to oppose the motion and this post is based on my arguments. The post Preprints Are Not Going to Replace Journals appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

This eighth episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast is the second in a two-part series on open access publishing. In this episode, Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Ann Michael (DeltaThink) discuss some of the more complex aspects of the OA landscape, such as funder mandates, Plan S, and transformative agreements. The post SSP’s Early…

AAAS continues its commitment to the subscription model to praise from cOAlition S. Are there lessons for other publishers? The post AAAS Plan S Compliance Policy: Staying Committed to Subscriptions appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The nuances between spelling mistakes, autocorrects, fat finger errors, atomic typos, muscle memory flaws, and the reason we only spot them AFTER pressing send. The post Fat Fingers, Muscle Memory, Atomic Typos, or Why I Can’t Spell Orchid And What I’m Doing About It appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Members of the 2020 class of SSP Fellows share their top take-aways from the recent SSP Annual Meeting. The post Ask the Fellows: SSP 2021 Annual Meeting appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Liz Bal from Jisc discusses the scholarly publishing lessons learned from COVID-19, and how they can be applied to make research communication more efficient and effective. The post Guest Post — Open and Faster Scholarly Communication in a Post-COVID World appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

In the second of two posts on persistent identifiers in scholarly communications, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share information about a new cost-benefit analysis showing the value of widespread PID adoption The post Making the Case for a PID-Optimized World appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.