The Scholarly Kitchen Podcast

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.