Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 3

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 3 today.

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Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.

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Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 1

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 1 today.

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Smorgasbord: eLife and Significance vs. Accuracy, The Collapse of the Humanities, and a new NISO Draft on Retractions Standards

A mixed bag post from us — can you separate out the significance of research results from their validity? What will the collapse of the Humanities mean for scholarly publishing writ large? And a new draft set of recommended practices for communicating retractions, removals, and expressions of concern.

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Fashionable Goodness: Authors’ Choices in Publication

Authors can choose from a number of publication options. What drives an author to self-publish their book? What do they give up when they do?

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Critical Archives

Studying the way we’ve studied the past is mutual work. Archivists and librarians, and scholars using their collections, have each been producing critical archives scholarship that too often remains within disciplinary and professional siloes.

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Thoreau and the Office Cubicle

Fretting over work even as you head out on vacation? A new book on Henry David Thoreau may cause you to rethink employment priorities.

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Guest Post — Students Need to Learn How to Read Scholarly Articles: Here’s How Technology Can Help

A new collaboration between JSTOR and the social annotation tool Hypothesis has seen more instructional uses of content and greater engagement among students with the material.

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Guest Post — Accessibility Powered by AI: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Universalize Access to Digital Content

Digital transformation can revolutionize the world, turning it into an inclusive place for people with and without disabilities, with accessibility powered by artificial intelligence.

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10 Trends I Observed Interviewing 10 Publishing Executives About the Future of Academic Books

As co-host of the Scholarly Communication Podcast, I’ve spent the last six months speaking with university press publishers and small to mid-size commercial book publishers. Here’s what I’ve learned.

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Guest Post — Street Books: A Non-profit Mobile Library Serving the Houseless Residents of Portland

An interview with Laura Moulton, founder of Street Books, a mobile library which serves Portland’s houseless community. SSP annual meeting attendees are invited to bring paperback books to donate to Street Books.

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Intended Audience and Actual Distribution: A Growing Mismatch?

Researchers write articles for a primary audience of peers. Open access has expanded the actual distribution. What to do about the growing mismatch?

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What Can I Do with This? Indicators of Usage Rights in the User Interface

Inconsistency in location/format of usage rights information and CC badges across formats and platforms makes it challenging to discover if/how articles can be reused. @lisalibrarian

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