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Survey results on COVID pandemic impacts on researchers and educators across the disciplines, and implications for scholarly publishers. The post Guest Post — Publishing in a Pandemic: 5 Factors Limiting Scholarly Research appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The Arecibo Observatory collapsed, laying bare the problems of funding science infrastructure. The post The Failure of the US Government to Fund Science Infrastructure is Causing Things to Literally Collapse appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The latest from Ithaka S+R on the academic research enterprise -- how it is managed by universities, their strategic priorities for it, and the pandemic's disruptions to it. A video of a CNI presentation by Jane Radecki, Oya Y. Rieger, and Roger C. Schonfeld. The post The Senior Research Officer and the Academic Research Enterprise…

The Humanities are everywhere --really. A new report shows us how Americans engage with and view the humanities in daily life, including school and work. The post The Humanities [Are Everywhere] in American Life appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Robert Harington argues that funders, be they national, or private, should consider directly funding their field through funding societies and institutions, with a focus on equitable distribution of funds across scholarly communities. The post Transformative Agreements, Funders and the Publishing Ecosystem: a Lack of Focus on Equity appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

In periods of disruption, commercial publishers have traditionally found opportunities to make capital investments that ultimately strengthen their relative position in the market -- opportunities that are not necessarily available to their not-for-profit counterparts. With this in mind, we offer up the beginnings of an analysis of the state of not-for-profit publishing today. The post…

Journalists are increasingly flagging unsupported claims and blatant falsehoods--it's time for preprint platforms to do the same. The post Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Ever wanted to see an x-ray film of a bat in flight? Now's your chance, courtesy of the BBC. The post X-Ray Bat Flight appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Phill Jones interviews Joris van Rossum and Lois Jones about the STM working group on peer review taxonomy. What is it for and how will it work? The post Towards a Shared Peer-Review Taxonomy: An interview with Joris van Rossum and Lois Jones appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The pandemic has wrought profound disruption on the academic sector. Today, we share findings from a major research project about the budget situation in US academic libraries. The post The Impacts of COVID-19 on Academic Library Budgets: Fall 2020 appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.