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Guest Post — Navigating Your Career in Publishing: Introducing the SSP Professional Skills Map
June 25, 2020 at 5:30 am

The Professional Skills Map, initiated by the SSP Career Development Committee aims to guide scholarly publishing professionals across industries and career levels in recognizing their personal strengths and interpersonal and technical skills, and then map those skill sets to fitting roles across the industry, empowering them to advance in their current roles and explore potential…

[Virtual] Conference Season Is Here: Are you prepared?
June 23, 2020 at 5:30 am

This year's conference season will look a lot different than last year's. Here are some tips to getting the most out of attending a virtual conference. The post [Virtual] Conference Season Is Here: Are you prepared? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Equity in Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with the Workplace Equity Project
June 22, 2020 at 5:30 am

The findings of the Workplace Equity Project's 2018 survey have recently been published as a peer-reviewed article in Learned Publishing - learn more in this interview with WEP founders Susan Spilka, Simone Taylor, and Jeri Wachter The post Equity in Scholarly Publishing: An Interview with the Workplace Equity Project appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Happy Juneteenth!
June 19, 2020 at 5:30 am

Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate the oldest national commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Let us all continue to learn what we must learn, do what we must do, so that our nation can be what we want it to be. The post Happy Juneteenth! appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Revisiting — On Being Excluded: Testimonies by People of Color in Scholarly Publishing
June 18, 2020 at 5:30 am

We revisit two posts from 2018. These powerful testimonies, by people of color, about their experience of racism in scholarly publishing, clearly show that we have "a great deal of powerful and humbling work to do" to address racism and the white-dominated culture of our industry. The post Revisiting — On Being Excluded: Testimonies by…

Connecting by Reading: A Selection of Books on Race and Racism, Part 2
June 17, 2020 at 5:30 am

Today's post includes part 2 of books about race and racism. When we read, we learn about each other and open our minds to other perspectives. The post Connecting by Reading: A Selection of Books on Race and Racism, Part 2 appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Educating Ourselves: Ten Quotes from Researchers Exploring Issues Around Race
June 15, 2020 at 5:30 am

Shocking, sobering and thought-provoking quotes from, and links to, plain language summaries of research relating to systemic or institutionalized racism, white privilege, and related topics. The post Educating Ourselves: Ten Quotes from Researchers Exploring Issues Around Race appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.