An AAAS survey reveals authors' concerns and confusion regarding open licensing of their work| The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Heather Staines Presidential Address from the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Some thoughts midway through the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Changes in Library of Congress' leadership could have profound impacts on copyright and intellectual freedom| The Scholarly Kitchen
We are expecting the US Government's AI Action Plan to be issued over the summer. In the meantime, we may glean some of the administration’s views by looking at recently issued information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).| The Scholarly Kitchen
Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.| The Scholarly Kitchen
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Adapting to AI requires a commitment to fostering AI literacy and creating spaces to openly discuss its challenges and implications.| The Scholarly Kitchen
A recently announced partnership with Emerald Publishing will bring the EveryLibrary Institute’s expertise to the academic library community as the U.S. government attacks extend to institutions of higher education.| The Scholarly Kitchen
The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Like Tolkien's “Ents” marched against deforestation, scholars, scientists, and their supporters must awaken to the widespread risks of these authoritarian trends and unite their efforts in resistance.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a "subscription-based access strategy," meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Now is a time when we must continue to stand against censorship and to support the scholarly community in both our words and our actions, according to our ethics and beliefs.| The Scholarly Kitchen
This is the second article of three in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at The Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today's focus is Open Science.| The Scholarly Kitchen
It is essential to address the hidden costs of retraction and to discuss who needs to bear this cost.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today we offer a double-post, with a proposal and a response concerning how we frame our efforts toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as a community.| The Scholarly Kitchen
What are the new directions in scholarly publishing? Check out the unique "reverse roundtable" discussions at SSP's New Directions seminar!| The Scholarly Kitchen
Do publishers really understand what tools researchers are using and how they are using them? Can we do more to create better policies based on real use cases and not hypothetical conjecture about what AI might do in the future?| The Scholarly Kitchen