How virtual reality and immersive content is helping medical students gain insight into their patients' experiences.

The post Start-up Stories: Mindscape Commons — or, How VR is Helping Develop Medical Students’ Communication Skills appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Revisiting a 2015 post that predicted the dominance of the cascade model of journal portfolio publishing and the increased dominance of the larger existing publishers in an open access market.

The post Revisiting — Return of the Big Brands: How Legacy Publishers Will Coopt Open Access appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

A new conference explores ways research can turn the scientific method onto improving its own results.

The post Innovating the Science of Science: A report of the ICSSI meeting appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

An SSP Meeting Session showing the results from publisher partnerships with Researchgate suggest the company is shifting from a source of potential infringement to a distribution channel that is being folded into more and more organizations.

The post Going Legit Part 2: The Continuing Path from Piracy to Partnership appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

In the last of this series of posts about this year's Annual Meeting, SSP's Marketing & Communications Committee cochairs ask members of our community what the conference meant to them

The post Ask the Community: What Did SSP 2022 Mean to You? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

To what extent are scholarly publishers and societies actively engaging with early career researchers? Findings from a white paper, and polls at the SSP annual meeting, are shared.

The post Guest Post — Striking the Right Chord with Millennial and GenZ Researchers appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.

The post Let the Metadata Wars Begin appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Reflections on what's next for getting together in the real world, in a time of climate change and pandemics.

The post It’s Good to be Back… But What Happens Now? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

We ask the 2022 Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellows to offer their thoughts on this year's Annual Meeting.

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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 imperiled.

The post What Universities — and Libraries, Researchers, and Publishers? — Owe Democracy appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Twitter does not increase citations, a reanalysis of author data shows. Did the authors p-hack their data?

The post Desperately Seeking (Statistical) Significance appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Professional conferences, it's been a while, but we're ready for you - or are we? This week we ask the chefs what did you forgot while we were home for 2 years? What's changed and how are you adjusting?

The post Ask The Chefs: It’s Travel Time Again! appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

The post Marketing to the New Generation of Academic Influencers: Mobile First, Weapons-grade SEO, Values-led Content and Initiatives appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The story of white bread's rise and fall offers a lesson in the circular nature of manufacturing and consumer culture.

The post Reverse Engineering, the Cycle of Culture, and the Dark History of White Bread appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Revisiting a 2017 post looking at how, due to the slowing growth of content licensing, sophisticated content providers are building businesses supporting researcher workflow and university business processes.

The post Revisiting: When is a Publisher not a Publisher? Cobbling Together the Pieces to Build a Workflow Business appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

When a reputable journal refuses to get involved with a questionable paper, science looks less like a self-correcting enterprise and more like a way to amass media attention.

The post Fill in the Blank Leads to More Citations appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the publication lifecycle -- from preprint to version of record, and everything in between.

The post Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

As the SSP's Annual Meeting for 2022 comes to a close, Jennifer Regala offers thoughts on what you can do to support and build our community.

The post Paying It Forward: A Call to Action appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

We're off for the rest of the week for the SSP Meeting and for those in the UK, the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

The post Out of Office: SSP and Jubilee appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

The SSP Career Development Committee's Professional Skills Map is in its third iteration, and the results are presented here. The Skills Map 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 career paths they may not have previously considered.

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