In this eight episode of SSP's Early Career Development Podcast, co-hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) engage with Ann Michael (DeltaThink) to discuss some of the more complex aspects of Open Access.

In this seventh episode of SSP's Early Career Development Podcast, co-hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) answer some questions from early career professionals about Open Access publishing. As the first of a two-part series on Open Access publishing, this episode covers some of the basics including a definition of OA, the different OA publishing models, how OA works for the author, and how metadata is involved in the "open" agenda. In part 2 (Episode 8),...

TSK Chef Michael Clarke talks with Jeffrey Mervis, senior correspondent at Science magazine, about science policy and the new administration’s orientation to science.

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.