Some Memorable Dishes from the Kitchen in 2009

The Kitchen is closing for 2009, and when a year comes to a close, the temptation to go retrospective is irresistible. So here, without further ado, is one possible list of posts from this past year reflecting some of the distinguishing events of 2009.

I also want to extend my heartfelt thanks to Phil Davis, David Crotty, Joe Esposito, Ann Michael, and Michael Clarke for a wonderfully informative year, and to Stewart Wills for his superb and very concise Twitter entries (and to Howard Ratner for the same).

1. Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars
2. The Strength of Weak Ties: Why Twitter Matters in Scholarly Communication
3. Horns of a Dilemma: Open Access or Academic Freedom
4. What Is “Library Bypass”?
5. The Future of Publishing? Trust and Curation, Says the Founder of Craigslist
6. Deep Dyve — iTunes Comes to Science Publishing
7. Sci Foo Camp 2009 — Days 1-3
8. Deleting Books — A New Kindle Dilemma
9. Google Wave: When More Is Too Much
10. $80,000 per Song, and Perceptions of Copyright
11. Metaphors of News at “The Guardian”
12. When Less Is More: The Upside of Paywalls and Delisting from Google
13. Publishing in the Google Ecosystem
14. Downloads, Citations, and Positional Effects in arXiv
15. Challenging Assumptions on Open Access Cost Savings
16. Open Science Debate: Democracy or Domination?
17. John Wilbanks: It’s the Customer, Not the Container — SSP Keynote
18. Will the Writing Revolution Beget a Social Revolution?

This is by no means a “best of” list, just a selection of entries that seemed to stick in my mind more than most, or to provide landmarks in time we’ll always associate with 2009.

I think we’re extremely fortunate as a community to have the talents of Phil, David, Joe, Ann, Michael, Stewart, and Howard helping us see and understand. Thank you, chefs!

Happy 2010 from the Scholarly Kitchen!