The global scholarly publishing ecosystem has already transitioned -- not to open access, but to a diverse hybrid system. So much the better. The post The Global Transition Has Already Happened – It’s Just Not the One You Expected (Part 1 of 2) appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack? The post Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
A review of 12 major publishers finds that they display an average of 6 journal-level impact metrics on their platforms. The Journal Impact Factor is the only metric displayed on all 12. The post Impact Metrics on Publisher Platforms: Who Shows What Where? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Creative Commons licenses continue to confuse the communications community. Here we collect a decade-plus of articles looking to offer some clarity on their use. The post Revisiting: Years and Years of Creative Commons Confusion appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest blogger shares highlights from a recent panel at the New Directions Seminar that concluded AI is simultaneously the largest challenge and the largest opportunity. The post Guest Post — AI as Reader, Author, and Reviewer: What Stays Human? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Publishers have led themselves into a mess by focusing on rising submissions as a positive indicator of journal performance. The time has come to close the floodgates and require that authors demonstrate their commitment to quality science before we let them in the door. The post Manuscript Submissions Are Up! That’s Good, Right? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Diamond Open Access promises equity, but sustainability challenges remain. Discover the hidden costs, global gaps, and paths toward lasting open publishing.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today, we speak with Prof. Yana Suchikova about GAIDeT, the Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy, which enables researchers to disclose the use of generative AI in an honest and transparent way.| The Scholarly Kitchen
The STM Association offers a classification scheme for the various possible uses of AI, including GenAI, in the preparation of manuscripts.| The Scholarly Kitchen
To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?| The Scholarly Kitchen
NISO's Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Summing up the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Forum discussion on Emerging AI Dilemmas in Scholarly Publishing, which explored the many challenges AI presents for the scholarly community.| The Scholarly Kitchen
An AAAS survey reveals authors' concerns and confusion regarding open licensing of their work| 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
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
