Libraries and Scholarly Communications
The Library, The Academy, and Scholarly Communication
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Rachel Fleming-May, associate professor in the University of Tennessee’s School of Information Sciences
The Library, The Academy, and Scholarly Communication
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Rachel Fleming-May, associate professor in the University of Tennessee’s School of Information Sciences
The Elephant Roundup (August 2021)
An occasional newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
First Person
The Elephant Roundup (April 2021)
A newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors (2021). Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/reviewheuristic
Born-Digital Publications: A Conversation between a Librarian and a Publisher
As more scholars start developing multimedia digital projects, librarians and acquisitions editors both play key roles in supporting them and making these projects available to readers. In the following post, a librarian and an acquisitions editor who have collaborated on digital projects talk about how they think about this work and what they’d like to see more of.
The Elephant Roundup (March 2021)
An occasional newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Virtual Conferences
Roger C. Schonfeld and Laura Brown, "A Framework for the Future of Conferences," Scholarly Kitchen, March 1, 2021, https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/03/01/framework-future-conferences/
The Elephant Roundup (February 2021)
An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Financial Health of Colleges & Universities
Kelly Grotke, “Are Endowments Damaging Colleges and Universities?,” The American Prospect, https://prospect.org/education/are-endowments-damaging-colleges-and-universities/
The Elephant Roundup (January 2021)
An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Here's where we share links to news stories, updates, and announcements of interest to Feeding the Elephant readers.
Libraries & Librarianship
The Challenges of COVID-19 for Early Career Librarians
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Last week John Vsetecka offered his perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on early-career scholars. In today's post, we learn what's been like for early-career librarians from Laura Rocco, outreach and engagement librarian at California State University, Stanislaus.
[1:3] The Impact of COVID-19 on Scholarly Communications
Feeding the Elephant is pleased to introduce our [1:3] series. In this series, we pose 1 question to a librarian, a publisher, and a scholar—the 3 main stakeholders in the scholarly communications ecosystem—to get each perspective on a particular issue. Here, we posed the question:
Working with Your Librarian: Copyright Assistance during COVID-19
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Sara R. Benson, Interim Head of the Scholarly Commons and Copyright Librarian, University of Illinois Library
P2L4 Summit Follow-up: How Can Presses & Libraries Work Together to Advance Anti-Racism
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Note: This was the third panel of the P2L conference held July 22. A recap of the first two panels can be found here.
Lisa Bayer, Director, University of Georgia Press, sent us this summary.
P2L Summit: University Presses and Libraries: Partners in Digital Transformation
P2L4, a conference sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses), brought together a group of publishers and librarians via Zoom on July 22 to talk about scholarly publishing.
Library Publishing
On June 11, 2020, Inside Higher Ed ran a short piece reporting that the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries just launched VCU Publishing, an initiative to publish scholarship by the university’s faculty and students in digital form.
The HSS Monograph and Open Access in an Era of Falling Library Budgets
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications
Recently, four pieces of news about publishing came to my attention. The conjuncture struck me as illuminating some of the key problems besetting the current scholarly publishing ecosystem.