In this Scholarly Kitchen post, Alice Meadows suggests that we need to change the culture in the field of scholarly communication, especially around gender diversity. She points out that many working in the field are drawing attention to the lack of women working in more established positions. Meadows also suggests that there are other cultural elements of scholarly communication that should change as well, including around open scholarship, impact factors, tenure and promotion, and funding. Finally, as a disclosed FORCE 11 outreach committee member, she suggests that the annual FORCE 11 conference would be an ideal opportunity to discuss how to acknowledge and attend to these cultural elements of scholarly communication.

 

Work cited

Meadows, Alice. 2017. “Changing the Culture in Scholarly Communications.” The Scholarly Kitchen. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/08/07/changing-culture-scholarly-communications/