Open Access
The Future of Open Access at H-Net
A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Niels Eichhorn, vice president of research and publications, H-Net.
The Elephant Roundup (January 2023)
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Scholarly Communications
Jill O’Neill, Books Are For Use and What That Means, Scholarly Kitchen (blog), December 6, 2022.
Multimodal Digital Monographs: An Interview with Allison Levy and Sarah McKee
Guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
In this interview, Emory University’s Sarah McKee and Brown University’s Allison Levy share insights from their work publishing digital multimedia scholarship.
The Elephant Roundup (November 2022)
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Scholarly Communications
Rachel Helps, Guest Post – Wikipedia’s Citations Are Influencing Scholars and Publishers, Scholarly Kitchen (blog), November 1, 2022.
Varieties of University Press Business Models V: Open Access
Guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Beth M. Bouloukos, director of the Amherst College Press.
This post is part of a series on how university presses (and other scholarly nonprofit publishers) are organized and operated. If you’ve got a model you’d like to describe, we’d like to hear from you.
Finding Joy in Open Access: Reflections from the Humanities Commons Team
A crosspost on Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications from Platypus: The blog of the Humanities Commons Team.
As we conclude our celebration of International Open Access Week, we asked our team to reflect on what joy in open access looks like for them.
A Bumpy Start to the Joys of Open Access: A Festive Perspective
A crosspost on Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications from Platypus: The blog of the Humanities Commons Team.
This post was originally published on Platypus: The blog of the Humanities Commons Team on October 26, 2022, to honor International Open Access Week. We thank Humanities Commons for sharing their posts with us.
The Elephant Roundup (October 2022)
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Scholarly Communications
James M. Lang, How to Cope With Presentation Anxiety, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2022.
The Elephant Roundup (September 2022)
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Open Access
Ann Michael, Tim Vines, Robert Harington, David Crotty, Tao Tao, and Alison Mudditt, Ask The Chefs: OSTP Policy Part I, The Scholarly Kitchen (blog), Aug. 30, 2022.
The Elephant Roundup (August 2022)
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Scholarly Communications
Angela Cochran, The End of Journal Impact Factor Purgatory (and Numbers to the Thousandths), The Scholarly Kitchen (blog), July 26, 2022.
The Elephant Roundup (July 2022)
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Open Access Publishing
The Elephant Roundup (April 2022)
Changing Shape of Scholarship
Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger, Guest Post — Event Streaming Start-Ups: A Strategic Overview and Taxonomy, Scholarly Kitchen (blog), April 20, 2022.
The Elephant Roundup (November 2021)
A monthly newsletter from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Academic Authority and Academic Freedom
Jeffrey C. Isaac, Florida Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Academic Freedom, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 31, 2021.
Taking Stock of Open Access Book Publishing
Efforts continue to transform academic book publishing in the humanities and social sciences from a user-pays to an open-access, stakeholder-funded business model.
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
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/
Why Is My Book So Expensive? The Cost of a Scholarly Monograph
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Authors often ask publishers, “Why is my book so expensive?” The short answer: it really isn’t that expensive. The long answer: your scholarly book might cost more than commercially published nonacademic books because academic presses are spreading the cost of producing a title across a smaller number of print units. Each unit therefore has to be priced higher to enable the press to recoup the cost of production.
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 Elephant Roundup (Oct. 30 - Nov. 11, 2020)
An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
The Elephant Roundup
An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
[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:
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.
Racism and Protest Resource List
In light of the ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Feeding the Elephant has compiled a list of resources (many freely accessible) from libraries, university presses, and scholars on the subjects of racism, racial justice, police brutality, and protest.
Interview with Charles Watkinson (Director, University of Michigan Press) on Open Access Publishing
University of Michigan Press is part of Michigan Publishing, U-M’s academic publishing division, and part of the University Library.
New Additions to the Open Access Resource List
Hello everyone,
The Open Access Resource List has been updated with additional resources. Please check it out and if you have anything else add, reply to this post to let us know!
Thank you!
--Feeding the Elephant team
Open Access Resource List
Greeting everyone!
On behalf of Catherine Cocks, Yelena Kalinsky, myself, and Feeding the Elephant, we would like to share an Open Access Resource list. This list is organized by category: Publishers and Open Access, Reports, Op-Eds, and Digital Initiatives.
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.