Digital Wordsmithing
With a passion for language, Erin McKean founded a nonprofit corporation and the world’s largest online dictionary. Wordnik is how the language guru and […]
Words Can Be a Lifelong Career
A 76-year old lexicographer continues working with his passion of the English language and all the intricacies that come along with it. He compiles […]
The Dictionary to the Rescue
Who knew in this day and age of digital, semantic and virtual technologies that the dictionary would turn out to the hero of the […]
Women Aviators: Then & Now
A newly discovered photograph suggests aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands. The photo, […]
ALPSP Conference Promises Rich Content
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’s (ALPSP) 10th annual conference is coming up soon. The big question is “what does artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Clearing the Fog
We have all been there. It might be in the middle of a professional conversation or social gathering and someone uses a word you […]
Naming Conventions
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics, and the practice and science of classification […]
There is No Hiding
Are all journals vulnerable to harm from piracy? Are open access (OA) journals immune to the threat? The Scholarly Kitchen brought this news to us in […]
Standing Up in Support of Libraries
One of the largest providers of educational materials and technology solutions recently announced it is intensifying its support of K-12 school libraries and librarians […]