The Importance of Academic (History) Writing
Historians can and do play a vital role in the public humanities, but there are vital reasons not just why but how we write for one another, too. The post The Importance of Academic (History) Writing...
View ArticleWe’re not Drop-outs, We’re Quitters. There’s a Difference!
It was a little while back now that a controversial blogger attacked one or more of the authors of the Scholarly Kitchen for being former academics, questioning whether such people should be working in...
View ArticleSeven Things Every Researcher Should Know About Scholarly Publishing
After many and long conversations among colleagues within and beyond the Scholarly Kitchen about what researchers need to know about scholarly publishing, Alice Meadows and Karin Wulf compiled a list...
View ArticleThree Things Scholarly Publishers Should Know About Researchers
We've looked recently at things publishers want researchers to understand better. Are there things researchers in turn want publishers to understand better? Charlie Rapple opens a discussion. The post...
View ArticleSci-Hub and Academic Identity Theft: An Open Letter to University Faculty...
When entities like Sci-Hub invite you to share your network credentials in order to help create free access to licensed scholarly publications, they're asking for more than access to research. What...
View ArticleSeven Things Every Scholarly Publisher Should Know about Researchers
What should publishers know about researchers and their work? Alice Meadows and Karin Wulf follow up a post earlier this year about "Seven Things Every Researcher Should Know about Scholarly...
View ArticleWomen in Research: Stories from the Global South
In celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, INASP conducted six interviews with inspirational women in academia from Africa and Asia. This post looks at some of the common themes...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t the Academy Taken Back Control of Publishing Already?
Perhaps the academy has not taken control of scholarly publishing because it doesn’t want to. The post Why Hasn’t the Academy Taken Back Control of Publishing Already? appeared first on The Scholarly...
View ArticleAsk the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in...
In yesterday’s “Ask the Community (and Chefs)” post, librarians and people involved in various ways in journal publishing shared their thoughts about how to increase equity in open research. Today’s...
View ArticleStanford University Press and the Wrong Lesson of the Humanities
What if, instead of enacting a caricature of Silicon Valley, Stanford recognized the future and threw its arms around Stanford University Press? That would be the smart move. The post Stanford...
View ArticleGuest Post — Research Support is an Enterprise Activity
Rebecca Bryant (OCLC) explains why cross-campus social interoperability is needed to adequately support today's researchers. The post Guest Post — Research Support is an Enterprise Activity appeared...
View ArticleWhat Universities Have Wrought: An Interview with Davarian Baldwin
The crises that US universities are producing in cities are intensifying as fast as others they face. An interview with Davarian Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower. The post What...
View ArticleHumanities and Graduate Education: The Crisis is Real, but Not New
A new study offers -- surprise -- mostly bad news about the state of Humanities graduate education. Even while we know how important humanistic perspectives are for, well, humanity. The post Humanities...
View ArticleWhat Universities — and Libraries, Researchers, and Publishers? — Owe Democracy
Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are...
View ArticleThe Double-Cost of Green-via-Gold
Open access is public access. With the Nelson OSTP memo as a catalyst for Green-via-Gold, will we still need agency repositories? The post The Double-Cost of Green-via-Gold appeared first on The...
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