2001 (Posts, and counting...) - The Scholarly Kitchen

It was pointed out to me that yesterday’s post was our 2000th here on The Scholarly Kitchen. In a little over 7 years, that averages out to 286 per year, not a bad level of productivity considering we almost never post on weekends.

2001 Monolith — This turned up in my living room yesterday…

There’s clearly a Kubrick/Clarke metaphor to be made here, about humanity evolving to the next level and the near constant experimentation, change and evolution of scholarly publishing, but I’ll leave that to the reader. And though not anywhere near the level of genius of Kubrick, we do resemble him in that our works have certainly been the subject of interesting conspiracy theories.

Regardless, thanks go out to all our authors, present and past, and here’s to the next 2,000!

David Crotty

David Crotty is the Executive Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Founded in 1933, CSHL Press is an internationally renowned publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, and is a division of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an innovator in life science research and the education of scientists, students, and the public. Previously, David was a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.

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Congratulations on this milestone. As an avid reader, I’ve learned quite a bit from this blog and really appreciate the work you all put in. Thank you.