Guest Post — Reporting from LIBER 2025: Policy Influence, Library Agency, and Researcher-First Open Access Moves| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest bloggers reflect on the the LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne (2–4 July). The post Guest Post — Reporting from LIBER 2025: Policy Influence, Library Agency, and Researcher-First Open Access Moves 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 post Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Event planners are faced with the delicate balance between constructing spaces for deeper connection with the impact we’re having on our planet. Here’s what I’ve learned about planning events that prioritize sustainability. The post Five Tips for Hosting a Sustainable Event appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today we welcome Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen to The Scholarly Kitchen as a full time Chef and say goodbye to several long-term Chefs (and offer our thanks for all the wisdom they've shared with us). The post Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen and Saying Thanks to a Few Departing Chefs appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Nearly three years after ChatGPT’s debut, generative AI continues to reshape scholarly publishing. The sector has moved from experimentation toward integration, with advances in ethical writing tools, AI-driven discovery, summarization, and automated peer review. While workflows are becoming more efficient, the long-term impact on research creation and evaluation remains uncertain. The post Three Years After the Launch of ChatGPT, Do We Know Where This Is Heading? appeared first on The Scho...| The Scholarly Kitchen
SSP Thanks Individual & Organizational Contributors to the Generations Fund! The post SSP’s Generations Fund Crosses the Finish Line appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
In the fast-moving world of AI research tools, there are many community-focused concerns that vendors should have strong opinions on and plans for, from privacy and security to sustainability and copyright. But the most misunderstood issue, in my view, is the one at the heart of it all — how AI will reshape the economics of academic research. The post Guest Post — The Economics of AI in Academic Research appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately on data, bits of information at the intersection of rows and columns are appearing in headlines more than ever before. To avoid cultural memory loss, we must build systems that save what humanity needs across disciplinary silos rather than saving some archives and losing others through an acc...| The Scholarly Kitchen
AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT management problem for content-rich websites across numerous industries.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested?| The Scholarly Kitchen
Scholarship is Like Music: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants| The Scholarly Kitchen
Does your publishing organization need a manifesto? Writing a manifesto for your organization can be a great exercise for team building and planning, and a way to ignite action. The post Guest Post — Manifesto Time: Do You Need a Publishing Manifesto? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Just as scholarly knowledge development is based on previous research findings, popular musicians stand on the shoulders of Pachelbel's Canon. The post Scholarship is Like Music: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
If science is to be both honest and healthy, we must accept that statistically non-significant results are part of reality. The SAMPL guidelines, if adopted widely by scholarly publishers and journal editors, hold a solution for authors who worry their results are not "significant." The post Guest Post — When Significance Hurts: What the SAMPL Guidelines Can Teach Us appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
We're finally seeing a move to truly digital-first publishing systems and in today's post Alice Meadows interviews Liz Ferguson of Wiley about this transition, including their own Research Exchange platform. The post Is Digital-first Publishing Finally a Reality? An Interview with Liz Ferguson of Wiley appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| 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
How We Work, AI, and Human Engagement| The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance| The Scholarly Kitchen
Allison Belan is Director for Strategic Innovation and Services at Duke University Press. She directs DUP’s technology and digital publishing operations, including IT, product management, digital content and hosting. Her remit includes digital content strategies, practices, and systems. Additionally, Allison oversees two service offerings to other non-profit scholarly publishers, Project Euclid and the Scholarly Publishing Collective. In her twenty year career in scholarly publishing, Allis...| The Scholarly Kitchen
Ask The Chefs — New Court Decisions Issued in Cases Addressing AI Training and Copyright| The Scholarly Kitchen
If the local pub trivia master is looking for information on Agatha Christie, what are the available options?| The Scholarly Kitchen
A new survey seeks to better understand the risks and benefits of GenAI in the discovery ecosystem.| The Scholarly Kitchen
In today’s post, Teodoro (Teo) Pulvirenti and Marianne Calilhanna join Randy Townsend to unpack the disturbing topic of suicide among the LGBTQ+ community. The post The Death of the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Line appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest bloggers share analysis on the relationship between impact and policy during Global Goals Week 2025.| 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
Today’s guest author offers a progress report on recent efforts to build open-source technology for open access book metrics.| The Scholarly Kitchen
AI has opened a new chapter in the saga of science and peer review. Today, guest author Prof. Nihar B. Shah explains how, if guided with integrity, AI can open galaxies of possibilities.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Are there ways to use AI in the research workflow to speed up the peer review process -- and, while we're at it, to address some of the other problems around bias and quality?| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Peer Review in the Era of AI: Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities| The Scholarly Kitchen
The future of peer review isn’t about choosing between humans and AI, or between speed and quality, but about combining the strengths of both to enable speed with quality, to ensure quality, ethics, and trust in the scholarly record.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Open data is gaining ground, but is there a revenue stream that would help journals recover the costs of gathering, reviewing and publishing data?| The Scholarly Kitchen
Kitchen is Closed for US Labor Day| 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
What can you expect from this fall’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington, DC?| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post discusses research metrics and their relationship to research integrity, inclusivity, and long-term impact.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Maryam Sayab.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post by Deja Forte declares: Publishing isn’t just about systems and standards; it’s about people. Each of us has the power to build bridges between knowledge and the lives it’s meant to benefit.| 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
Three women of color revisit their conversation with Alice Meadows during the first Trump administration, in the light of their new positions and today's political environment.| The Scholarly Kitchen
The Chefs are now off for the US Labor Day Holiday, enjoying the last official getaway for summer.| The Scholarly Kitchen
This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest authors offer practical tips for publishing high-quality image descriptions, a key step toward ensuring genuine accessibility in scholarly communications.| The Scholarly Kitchen
In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices -- protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed citizenship itself.| 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
What's the magic word? Is it "please"? "Abracadabra"? Wingardium leviosa"? Why are humans drawn to incantations and affirmations?| The Scholarly Kitchen
As AI becomes a major consumer of research, scholarly publishing must evolve: from PDFs for people to structured, high-quality data for machines.| The Scholarly Kitchen
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Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested?| The Scholarly Kitchen
We often think of bullying as a childhood issue, but people can take that behavior to the workplace. The scourge of workplace bullying, and its harmful effects on mental health, needs to be recognized and addressed.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Greetings from SSP 2025 in Baltimore| The Scholarly Kitchen
The Curse of Knowledge is when we assume everyone else understands what we're talking about, when they don't. Good communication happens when we have the courage to make it simple.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Data quality and record keeping are going to grow in importance as a result of AI applications.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post — Well-meant Is Not Well-done: A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance”| The Scholarly Kitchen
A recent survey of 66 learned societies (primarily in the UK) revealed a revenue crisis which threatens the very existence of community-driven publishing, and by extension learned societies themselves.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Industry pros offer a marketing manifesto of sorts, to help our non-marketing colleagues see behind the curtain and understand how to best leverage these critical team members.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Summer has officially become a time to catch up on writing, editing, reviewing, hiring, upskilling, compliance, and all the administrative work that you kept putting off throughout the year. Is the idea of "summer break" just a lie we tell ourselves?| The Scholarly Kitchen
In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback -- her findings may concern you!| The Scholarly Kitchen
Level 3 of STM's SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest blogger, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, asks: Is AI for us, or are we for AI? In the all-important context of peer review, can we leverage AI to amplify human thought rather than replace us?| The Scholarly Kitchen
This post is based on a recently-published white paper by Alice Meadows and Josh Brown of MoreBrains Cooperative, in which they discuss why ORCID iDs work best in combination with other researcher identifiers -- it's ORCID and, not ORCID or...| The Scholarly Kitchen
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
A good crop of optical illusions win the 2024 contest from the Neural Correlate Society.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today’s post puts the spotlight on the European Accessibility Act (EAA) directive and how different organizations are getting ready to make their publications and services EAA compliant.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Would an Open Access publisher accept a nonsensical paper if the author were willing to pay?| The Scholarly Kitchen
As US federal policy on indirect costs remains uncertain, the Joint Associations Group seeks input on two proposed models. Learn about the models and implications for library funding and publishers.| The Scholarly Kitchen
NISO issues report of workshops on how to improve efficiency working with AI systems in scholarly publishing| The Scholarly Kitchen
The deadline for the European Accessibility Act compliance is rapidly approaching. Here we discuss the challenges scholarly organizations face in achieving EAA compliance — and the strategies they’re implementing to address them.| The Scholarly Kitchen
How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 1 of 2.| 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
The analysis of operational data is complex, dull, and unrewarding. It is also necessary. Three case studies of major journals and portfolios explain why.| The Scholarly Kitchen
BBC Maestro has delivered a writing course taught by a speaking and moving on-screen image of Agatha Christie. Did the AI behind it succeed?| The Scholarly Kitchen
The French Open Science Monitor Initiative shows a path toward improving recognition of data sharing and open science assessment| The Scholarly Kitchen
We are off for the Memorial Day holiday, traditionally marking the beginning of summer.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Ashutosh is a strategic leader in scholarly publishing with over 18 years of experience driving sustainable growth and global market expansion. He currently serves as Vice President of Growth and Strategy at […]| The Scholarly Kitchen
Vannevar Bush's Endless Frontier has served as a blueprint for public investments in science for 80 years--a concept now facing great risk.| The Scholarly Kitchen
A millennial linguist dares to speak to a gen-alpha audience in their native tongue.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Changes in Library of Congress' leadership could have profound impacts on copyright and intellectual freedom| The Scholarly Kitchen
How can organizations facilitate safe and comprehensive engagement with AI? And how can individuals within those organizations engage and advocate for their own AI literacy?| The Scholarly Kitchen
It’s not always easy to recognize a cyberbully, or initially realize you’re being targeted. Here, some practices to help you to grow and protect your professional networks in ways that align with your values and vision.| 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
Finally some good news, at least for afficionados of very large invertebrates.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Why explaining research to a rubber duck could be the secret to clearer thinking and better communication.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Reverse delegation, a cycle where tasks flow back to the leader of an organization or team, can be difficult to overcome, particularly in academia.| The Scholarly Kitchen
While Open Science frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within your data.| The Scholarly Kitchen
If you've ever tried to move a photo in a Word document, you'll appreciate this short reenactment.| 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
These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.| 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
We asked the Program Committee Chairs what they're looking forward to at this year's SSP Annual Meeting.| The Scholarly Kitchen
Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative's recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).| 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
