Joseph Esposito
Management consultant for the publishing and software industries. Work primarily with strategy for digital media. For-profit and not-for-profit clients.
Last synced from Twitter 126d ago
The Perils of Pauline
The job of the regular daily, weekly, or even monthly critic resembles the work of the serious intermittent critic, who writes only when he is asked to or
Joseph Esposito
Best piece ever to appear in The New Yorker: The Perils of Pauline nybooks.com/articles/1980/… via @nybooks
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How bookstores are weathering the pandemic
Independent bookstores are doing everything they can to stay in business.
Joseph Esposito
How bookstores are weathering the pandemic vox.com/the-goods/2020… via @voxdotcom
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Chancellor Gardner appoints Pawlowski as OhioLINK executive director | OhioLINK
Joseph Esposito
Good people get rewarded: Chancellor Gardner appoints Amy Pawlowski as OhioLINK executive director | OhioLINK
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Global Science and the China Split | Ithaka S+R
The practice of science has always been a fundamentally international activity. Even during periods of substantial geopolitical splits—such as the Cold
Biden Would Increase Science Funding | Inside Higher Ed
Increasing federal spending on research and science, including at universities, will be a top priority of his administration, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told a left-of-center podcast. Biden told Pod Save America, run by former Obama...
Guest Post — Making the Most Out of Virtual Events: The Publisher as Vendor
Organizations are having to shift in person events to virtual for the foreseeable future. In this post, author Colleen Scollans discusses the steps we can take to make virtual events a marketers dream.
Joseph Esposito
Guest Post -- Making the Most Out of Virtual Events: The Publisher as Vendor scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/10/26/gue… via @scholarlykitchn
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Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’
Liberal arts departments, graduate student aid and even tenured teaching positions are targets as the coronavirus causes shortfalls.
To Reduce Racial Inequality, Raise the Minimum Wage
Diversity and inclusion programs for elites are tokens. A large wage increase that would most benefit the Black working class is far better.
Springer Nature and Max Planck reach landmark open access deal in Germany
The agreement will allow authors at eligible German institutes to publish papers for fee of about £8500 each
Will the increase in publication volumes “dilute” prestigious journals’ impact factors? A trend analysis of the FT50 journals
In the wake of the unprecedented global scientific output boom, are top-tier journals such as the FT50 journals following suit? If these prestigious journals consistently increase their publication volumes, will their impact factors be affected?...
Educating for Misunderstanding: How Approaches to Teaching Digital Literacy Make Students Susceptible to Scammers, Rogues, Bad Actors, and Hate Mongers
Introduction
Russian troll farms sow disinformation. Fake news runs amok on social media. Bots impersonate real people. Real people assume false identities. How do we know what’s true? The only th...
The Data of Long-lived Institutions
The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. I want to lead you through some of the research that I’ve been doing on a meta-level around long-lived institutions, as well as some observations of the ways various systems have...
Open Science- Who is left behind?
Open Access initiatives promise to extend access to scholarly conversations. However, the dominant model of Article Processing Charges, whilst lowering financial barriers for readers, has merely er…
‘An irreplaceable source of information’ | Research Information
Gaëlle Béquet, director of ISSN International Centre, outlines the work of the Keepers Registry – followed by interviews with four of its partner agencies
To Recognize Misinformation in Media, Teach a Generation While It’s Young
There is no silver bullet to slay internet lies and fictions. But students can be taught to know when information is reliable.
Brexit’s back: the five issues that will shape science
Europe’s political shake-up is approaching — for researchers, key factors such as immigration and funding hang in the balance.
Tom Maschler, Bold British Publisher and Booker Prize Founder, Dies at 87
He fostered the careers of more than a dozen Nobel laureates, including Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing.
Bernie Sanders makes a play for Biden Labor secretary
The Vermont senator is interested in joining Joe Biden's Cabinet, should his former primary rival defeat President Donald Trump.
Joseph Esposito
And so the unravelling begins: Bernie Sanders makes a play for Biden Labor secretary politi.co/3dNfOln via @politico
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A Celebration of the Syllabus
Two scholars argue that the syllabus is an overlooked way to reimagine teaching.
Single strategy. Single organisation.
The University of Cambridge today announced that it will bring together its publishing and assessment operations to create a single organisation. Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment publish and create world-leading content and...