What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing
Today's guest post asks what about our current peer review system is worth saving and if we're able to establish one that protects editorial judgment and preserves research integrity.
For Peer Review Week 2026, we asked the Chefs two questions: What is one uncomfortable truth about peer review that the scholarly publishing community doesn’t talk about enough? And, beyond recruiting more reviewers, what conversation about peer review capacity are we overlooking?
Today’s guest post challenges our community to face tendencies toward groupthink and address the incentive structures that resist adaptation and innovation.
The US Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in the copyright infringement litigation between The New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft, et. al., largely siding with the AI companies and strongly favoring the notion of LLM training as fair use. We asked the chefs for their thoughts.
The journal portfolio, platform, or membership is no longer enough, as AI transforms how research is discovered and consumed. How will your organization adapt?
Today’s interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg, formerly of NIH, sheds some light on censorship at the agency and the damage it’s doing to health research.
Today, we learn what’s in store for this year’s fall seminar from SSP.
Today’s guest bloggers posit four important trends in scholarly communications that our community should be ready to tackle.
As AI research assistants learn our preferences, they may also become better at mirroring our assumptions. Avoiding that outcome will require more than a better prompt.
The opportunity presented by AI is not to remove the human layer of scholarship. It is to recognize why that layer has always mattered.
Identifying AI content is now embedded in Claude models. It doesn’t solve the problem we have. It also creates others.
Dolly Parton touched so many people’s lives in so many ways. We reached out to the Chefs for their thoughts on her passing.
Some thoughts on the reader response the Scholarly Kitchen has seen regarding AI use by authors, a recent Nature News article on the efficacy of AI detection tools, and why it’s important to keep experimenting to figure out what’s ethically acceptable.
Today’s post explains how Ukraine’s academic publishing sector is confronting a global monograph crisis with unexpected urgency and innovation.
Today’s guest bloggers reflect on an SSP panel conversation about how scholarly publishing is not only built through shared work but also through shared understanding.
Today’s guest post argues that scholarly publishers’ institutional credibility and alignment are in crisis, and suggests the time for a structural rebrand is now.