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The Scholarly Kitchen (“TSK”) website is provided as a public service for the sole purpose of aiding the SSP community. The information and services published on this website may include inaccuracies, omissions, or errors for which SSP shall not be responsible. Every reasonable effort shall be made by SSP, its Board of Directors, and the Editor-in-Chief members to provide accurate, up-to-date information.

Neither SSP, its Board of Directors, the Editor-in-Chief, nor its members shall be held responsible for any special, consequential, or exemplary damages resulting, in whole or in part, from any user(s)’ use of or reliance upon this website’s contents. By using the information contained herein, the user willingly assumes all risks in connection with such use including but not limited to verifying the accuracy, completeness, currency and suitability of such information.

SSP may make improvements and/or changes to this website at any time. We welcome suggestions for such additions, omissions and/or other changes. SSP reserves the right to refuse to post any information on its website at any time.

Opinions on The Scholarly Kitchen (TSK) are those of the authors. They are not necessarily those held by the Society for Scholarly Publishing nor by their respective employers. Comments are moderated, but publication of a comment does not indicate an endorsement of the opinions in any comment. Opinions expressed in comments are those of the individuals making the comments.

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The materials produced by or for TSK (including, but not limited to text, photographs, graphics, video and audio content) are protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. Copyright for individual articles, content and other elements comprising this compilation and produced by or for TSK is retained by the authors(s). You must abide by all copyright notices or restrictions contained in any materials produced by or for TSK. You are prohibited from reproducing, copying, modifying, renting, leasing, loaning, selling, distributing, exploiting, extracting, creating derivative works of or otherwise communicating or making available to third parties any part of the content of this website prior written consent.

Notice for Claims of Copyright Violations

If you believe that your work has been copied and posted on our site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you should provide the Editor-in-Chief with a written notice that sets forth the infringement details. All valid claims will be investigated. To be effective, the notice must contain the following information:

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Permissions and Republication

The Scholarly Kitchen (TSK) content can be linked to from other websites for non-commercial purposes. Excerpts up to the length of 200 words may be taken without express consent, but must contain a link back to the material from TSK. To reprint or republish TSK content online or in non-electronic forms, please e-mail the Editor-in-Chief with details to gain permission. Because blog posts are contributed by many different authors you must have both TSK and the article author’s permission to republish any content. Images and artwork may not be republished.

Any article or materials that you reprint or otherwise reproduce with permission, must be displayed with its by-line, if applicable, under the following heading: “This article [material] was published by The Scholarly Kitchen.

Commenting Guidelines

TSK is interested in articulate, well-informed remarks that are relevant to the content. We welcome your advice, your criticism and your unique insights into the issues addressed in the article. Our commenting system is designed to draw together insightful, active, and civil discussions among TSK readers, authors and editors. By moderating comments, we are fostering an environment where readers can exchange intelligent and informed commentary that enhances the quality of our content. Most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive or commercial, however, moderating decisions are subjective. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can.

TSK will not tolerate personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and use of replacement characters such as #$#%), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence and SHOUTING. For additional information about why a comment might be rejected or removed, please review this post from the Editor, On Comment Moderation.

If you have a question about our commenting system or would like to report a comment as inappropriate, please the email the Editor-in-Chief. Please be sure to include in your email your username, the email address you used to register and some context about the issue you’re having (e.g., the URL to which you posted a comment).

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A violation of these terms and conditions, as determined by the Editor-in-Chief or SSP is grounds for immediate and permanent suspension of your privilege to post comments on TSK.

 

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