The Scholarly Kitchen Podcast

SSP's Career Development Committee launched a podcast series in 2019 for early career publishing professionals. Co-hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science), the podcast series offers advice and discussion on how early career publishing professionals can add to their skill sets, develop networks, and take advantage of opportunities. The series presents interviews and insights from experienced professionals on how to navigate one's career in a diverse and ever-changing landscape of scholarly communications.

SSP's Career Development Committee launched a podcast series in 2019 for early career publishing professionals. Co-hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science), the podcast series offers advice and discussion on how early career publishing professionals can add to their skill sets, develop networks, and take advantage of opportunities. The series presents interviews and insights from experienced professionals on how to navigate one's career in a diverse and ever-changing landscape of scholarly communications.

SSP's Career Development Committee launched a podcast series in 2019 for early career publishing professionals. Co-hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science), the podcast series offers advice and discussion on how early career publishing professionals can add to their skill sets, develop networks, and take advantage of opportunities. The series presents interviews and insights from experienced professionals on how to navigate one's career in a diverse and ever-changing landscape of scholarly communications.

SSP's Career Development Committee launched a podcast series in October for early career publishing professionals. Co-hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science), the podcast series offers advice and discussion on how early career publishing professionals can add to their skill sets, develop networks, and take advantage of opportunities. The series presents interviews and insights from experienced professionals on how to navigate one's career in a diverse and ever-changing landscape of scholarly communications. The second podcast episode covers the topic of career progression, and focuses specifically on the question 'where do I go next?'. The episode includes two interviews with Laura Ricci (Consultant at Clarke and Esposito) and Ian Mulvany (Head of Transformation, Product Innovation at Sage), who tell fascinating personal stories about moving jobs and also offer invaluable advice on navigating the broad publishing industry.

SSP's Career Development Committee launched a podcast series in October for early career publishing professionals. Co-hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science), the podcast series offers advice and discussion on how early career publishing professionals can add to their skill sets, develop networks, and take advantage of opportunities. The series presents interviews and insights from experienced professionals on how to navigate one's career in a diverse and ever-changing landscape of scholarly communications. The second podcast episode covers the topic of career progression, and focuses specifically on the question 'where do I go next?'. The episode includes two interviews with Laura Ricci (Consultant at Clarke and Esposito) and Ian Mulvany (Head of Transformation, Product Innovation at Sage), who tell fascinating personal stories about moving jobs and also offer invaluable advice on navigating the broad publishing industry.

The Society for Scholarly Publishing's (SSP's) Career Development Committee has launched a podcast series for early career publishing professionals. Co-hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science), the podcast series offers advice and discussion on how early career publishing professionals can add to their skill sets, develop networks, and take advantage of opportunities. This episode covers the topic of mentorship and includes two interviews with Katy Alexander (Global Director of Marketing and Communications at Digital Science) and Jennifer Landsberg (Product Manager at Cell Press), who speak about their experiences as a mentor and mentee, respectively. The hosts also discuss some results from a survey that was sent out to the community. The survey questions included 'What advice would you have given your younger self?' and 'What was your worst career mistake?'

The change of administrations in the United States was only 6 months ago but seems like much longer. Many things have changed in Washington with regard to science policy and the new administration’s orientation to science. Jeffrey Mervis, senior correspondent at Science magazine, talks with podcast host Michael Clarke about what has changed, what has not changed, and the implications of it all for science. This interview was recorded on July 6, 2017.

TSK Chef Michael Clarke talks with Ivan Oransky, the co-founder and editor of Retraction Watch, about the blog and its influence, how retractions come to light, how the community responds to retractions for misconduct versus retractions for honest errors, and more.

Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer, librarians at Utrecht University, talk with podcast host Stewart Wills about their 101 Innovations project--an undertaking designed to collect and analyze information on the sometimes bewildering array of new tools that scientists are using to get the job done, and that are reshaping scholarly workflows in a digital age.

Host Stewart Wills talks with Charlotte Haug, the vice-chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), about the recent World Conference on Research Integrity, new community guidelines on research transparency and reproducibility, the international dimension of research ethics, and the dangers of sensationalizing retractions.

After a long hiatus, the podcast returns, as Scholarly Kitchen chef Michael Clarke chats with host Stewart Wills about some of the growth engines--from new end-user products and services to new business models to mergers and acquisitions--that companies in scholarly communications are tapping as their traditional individual and institutional subscription businesses cope with flattening prospects.

In this episode, Scholarly Kitchen chef and NISO executive director Todd Carpenter talks with host Stewart Wills about the importance of technical standards in scholarly publishing today, some upcoming things to watch for on the standards horizon, and how publishers need to infuse standards awareness deeper in their organizations.

In this episode, Howard Ratner, Director of Development at CHORUS, provides a status report on the project, a partnership between publishers and federal agencies to facilitate public access to federally funded research; talks about opportunities for synergies between CHORUS and other public-access vehicles; discusses next steps on the project; and also brings us up to date on another community-driven standards project, the contributor-id registry ORCID, which turns one year old today.

In this episode, Peter Brantley, the director of scholarly communication at the start-up Hypothes.is, talks with host Stewart Wills about the firm's efforts to build an open annotation layer on the Web, his thoughts on how in-line annotation differs, in both spirit and potential, from the more common practice of online comment streams, and some possible applications in scholarly communication, publishing, and peer review.

In this episode, Scholarly Kitchen chefs Joe Esposito, Michael Clarke, and Kent Anderson talk about the uses and misuses of the term "disruption" in describing the current technological ferment in scholarly publishing, the differences between disruptive and sustaining technologies, and where real industry disruption might come from.

In this episode, Peter Binfield, the publisher of the innovative open-access journal PeerJ, talks with host Stewart Wills about progress at PeerJ in the seven months since the journal's launch, its unique business model, the key role of cost control at making PeerJ sustainable, and his perspective on this latest venture in the context of his 20-year career in scholarly publishing.

In this episode, Mitch Joel, the president of the digital marketing firm Twist Image and the author of the book Ctrl Alt Delete, talks with host Stewart Wills about how today’s professionals need to change their perspective about both their businesses and their lives, and adopt “digital-first” thinking, to survive and thrive in the current era of technology-driven change.

In this episode, information scientist Carol Tenopir of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, talks with podcast host Stewart Wills about recent trends in how much of the literature a time-pressed individual scholar might read each year, what reading actually means in an era of networked information, and about establishing and maintaining trust online.

In this episode, librarian Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado, Denver -- who maintains a celebrated a list of predatory open access publishers and journals and blogs regularly at scholarlyoa.com -- talks about the inherent vulnerability of gold open access to scams and fraud, the potential pitfalls of article-level metrics, and where his research on the scholarly publishing environment is headed.

Scholarly Kitchen chef Alice Meadows, head of society relations at John Wiley, talks about the challenges and opportunities for scholarly and professional societies in finding new value-adds in a competitive, Internet-driven environment — and how many of the “new” sources of relevance are rooted in things that have made societies central to their members’ professional lives for many years.

Anita de Waard, vice president, Research Data Collaborations, with Elsevier, talks about the potential for moving beyond static narratives of research in PDF papers and toward new forms of scientific discovery via the semantic Web, the gains to be made from making research data more open, structured, and interconnected, and the role of scholarly publishers in a new world of linked data.

Scholarly Kitchen chef Phil Davis talks about the modern state of bibliometrics, including the opportunities and dilemmas of dealing with the vast amounts of usage, citation, and other data that can be gleaned from the Web, some of the common statistical pitfalls he's seen in published work, and where the big questions lie for the science of bibliometrics in our increasingly data-rich era.

Jason Priem, originator of the term altmetrics and co-founder of ImpactStory, talks about using tweets, bookmarks, and other measures of online influence alongside more traditional citation-based metrics of scholarly impact, the road to community acceptance, and just when and how altmetrics might stop being looked at as quite so "alt."

Scholarly Kitchen Chef David Smith talks about some of the recent news from Google's annual I/O conference -- including thoughts on Google Glass as a fashion statement, talking to your computer, and how publishers can tool for the future by taking a few pages from Google's semantic playbook.

University of Utah librarian and Scholarly Kitchen chef Rick Anderson talks about the potential impact of massive open online courses (MOOCs), both for higher education and as a new market for scholarly content.

Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media and keynote speaker at the 2013 SSP Annual Meeting, talks about how scholarly publishers need to think broadly about customer needs to thrive in a changing environment, as well as his experience with the new open-access journal PeerJ.

Susan King, a member of the CHORUS steering committee, describes the rationale and goals of this partnership between scholarly publishers and federal agencies to meet new public-access mandates.

Head Chef Kent Anderson gives some of the backstory on a series of investigative posts earlier this year, stemming from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request -- the surprisingly straightforward request process, and the reams of paper that the FOIA request spawned.

Scholarly Kitchen Chef Ann Michael, president of DeltaThink, talks about how scholarly publishers need to go beyond their traditional focus on selling to institutions, and think about the end user's actual needs in a diverse technical environment.

SSP's Career Development Committee launched a podcast series in 2019 for early career publishing professionals. Co-hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science), the podcast series offers advice and discussion on how early career publishing professionals can add to their skill sets, develop networks, and take advantage of opportunities. The series presents interviews and insights from experienced professionals on how to navigate one's career in a diverse and ever-changing landscape of scholarly communications.

SSP's Career Development Committee launched a podcast series in 2019 for early career publishing professionals. Co-hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science), the podcast series offers advice and discussion on how early career publishing professionals can add to their skill sets, develop networks, and take advantage of opportunities. The series presents interviews and insights from experienced professionals on how to navigate one's career in a diverse and ever-changing landscape of scholarly communications.