scholarly communication

In this episode, Nikesh Gosalia engages in conversation with Heather Staines, Director of Community Engagement and Senior Consultant at Delta Think and a veteran in scholarly communications and academic publishing. They discuss the evolving role of technology in academics, the importance of diversity in academic content, and the challenges and opportunities in the open access space. Heather emphasises the need for supporting nonprofit initiatives and open infrastructure projects, ensuring their continued existence amidst changing funding landscapes. Additionally, the conversation reflects on the challenges faced by underrepresented voices, and explores various open access business models that contribute to a more inclusive academic environment.

Nikesh Gosalia: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikeshgosalia/\

https://twitter.com/NikeshGo

Heather Staines: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherstaines/

https://twitter.com/heatherstaines


Show notes:

Thank you for listening! Here are links to some of the things that Heather Staines and Nikesh discussed in the podcast. We would love to hear from you, so feel free to drop a line at insightsxchange@cactusglobal.com

Delta Think | https://deltathink.com/
MIT Knowledge Futures Group | https://www.knowledgefutures.org/
ProQuest | https://www.proquest.com/
Yale University | https://www.yale.edu/
Springer Nature | https://www.springernature.com/gp
SIPX | https://law.stanford.edu/projects/stanford-intellectual-property-exchange/
Copyright Clearance Center | https://www.copyright.com/
American Library Association | https://www.ala.org/
Crossmark Working Group | https://www.crossref.org/working-groups/crossmark/
Hypothesis | https://web.hypothes.is/
Public Knowledge Project | https://pkp.sfu.ca/
Simon Fraser University | https://www.sfu.ca/
Michigan Publishing | https://www.publishing.umich.edu/
University of Minnesota Manifold | https://manifold.umn.edu/
Open Library of Humanities | https://www.openlibhums.org/
Declaration of Open Research Assessment (DORA) | https://sfdora.org/
STM Future Lab | https://www.stm-assoc.org/standards-technology/future-lab-committee/n 

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Anthony Haynes writes: You've written a dissertation or thesis. You'd like to write a book. How are the two forms related? How to transition from one to the other?

In this episode, we seek to provide detailed, professional, insights into making a success of the process.

Resources

William Germano, From dissertation to book (Univ. of Chicago)
Beth Luey, Revising your dissertation (Univ. of California)
Eleanor Harman, The thesis and the book (Univ. of Toronto)
Anthony Haynes, Writing successful academic books (Cambridge Univ.)

Further listening

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, you might also enjoy:

• Writing book proposals (I): four things not to do
• Writing book proposals (II): five common pitfalls
• Writing book proposals (III): good practice for authors

Credits

• Sound production: Bart Hallmark
• Music: from Handel's Water Music, courtesy of the United States Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra

Support the show

About the publisher

This episode is published by Frontinus Ltd. We're a communications consultancy that helps organisations and individuals to communicate scientific, professional, and technical content to non-specialist audiences.

We provide

• consultancy
• mentoring
• editing and writing
• training

and work on presentations, bids and proposals, and publications (for example, reports and papers).

To learn more about services or explore ways of working together, please contact us via our website, http://frontinus.org.uk/.

Anthony Haynes writes: Our previous episode on abstracts focused on structure and content. Now we switch our attention to process -- how to go about writing the text.

The episode considers common pitfalls and provides tips for good practice.

Resources

Unit V of #EnginComms provides links to a video and how-to slides, together with links to other creators' resources in various forms: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_oHWjm3yg7Z29K31gE6niS4KWpFmUNyNTgbTIhNCFNQ/edit?usp=sharing.

Karen L. McKee has produced two excellent videos, one on written abstracts and one on graphical. The respective links are:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYkXA6gDRlg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGwA-j1wikk

Further listening

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, you might find the following episodes of particular interest:

• How to write abstracts: structure and tone 
• Wordclouds -- a neglected form of grey literature
• Posters as a form of research communication

Credits

• Sound production: Bart Hallmark
• Music: from Handel's Water Music, courtesy of the United States Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra

About the publisher

This episode is published by Frontinus Ltd. We're a communications consultancy that helps organisations and individuals to communicate scientific, professional, and technical content to non-specialist audiences.

We provide

• consultancy
• mentoring
• editing and writing
• training

and work on presentations, bids and proposals, and publications (for example, reports and papers).

To learn more about services or explore ways of working together, please contact us via our website, http://frontinus.org.uk/.

In this episode, the press's director, Gabe Dotto, and the press's editor-in-chief, Catherine Cocks, join us to talk about the history and future of MSU Press and some of the challenges facing university press publishers today. You can connect with the press on Facebook and @msupress on twitter, where you can also find me @kurtmilb.

The MSU Press podcast is a joint production of MSU Press and the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. Thanks to Daniel Trego, Madiha Ghous, Donté Smith, Kylene Cave, and the team at MSU Press, especially Elise Jajuga and Julie Reaume, for helping to produce this podcast. Our theme music is “Coffee” by Cambo.