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  • Jan 14, 2025 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Alice Meadows

    Our Kitchen Essentials interview today is with Stephanie Dawson, CEO of ScienceOpen. With offices in Boston, MA and Berlin, Germany (where Stephanie is based), ScienceOpen was founded in 2013, and now provides a research, networking, and discovery platform for publishers, institutions, and researchers with close to 100 million records. Please tell us a bit about yourself — your role at ScienceOpen, how you got there, and why you embarked on a career in research infrastructure?

  • Nov 14, 2024 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Alice Meadows

    In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, we will hear from Anita Bandrowski, CEO and Co-founder of SciCrunch. SciCrunch was founded in 2016, with the goal of helping to reduce scientific irreproducibility. Its mission is to improve the scientific literature through the development of tools and services around the provisioning of research resource identifiers (RRIDs) — persistent identifiers for biological resources, which were first launched in 2013.

  • Oct 8, 2024 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Alice Meadows

    Back in 2000, PLOS (or the Public Library of Science, as it was then known) was just the beginnings of an idea in the minds of co-founders Harold Varmus, Patrick O. Brown, and Michael Eisen. Nearly 25 years later, its goals remain unchanged: to break boundaries, empower researchers, redefine quality, and (back in 2003, when its first journal, PLOS Biology launched, most controversially), to open science.

  • Oct 3, 2024 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Alice Meadows

    It’s often said (including by me!) that technological change is easy compared with the social and cultural change needed to successfully implement that new technology. The challenge of bringing everyone along with you when implementing change of any sort shouldn’t be underestimated. And, if managing change is difficult within one organization, it’s even more challenging at the community level.

  • Sep 9, 2024 | scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Alice Meadows

    Today’s Kitchen Essentials interview is with Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions, the operational arm of STM (the International Association of Scientific,Technical, and Medical Publishers). STM Solutions was founded in 2021, to develop and manage shared infrastructures and collaborative services to support the scholarly communications community.

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