We are very pleased to announce that Ashutosh Ghildiyal has graciously agreed to join The Scholarly Kitchen as a regular contributor. Ashutosh is Vice President of Growth, Strategy & Brand at Integra, where he leads marketing, brand, and growth initiatives focused on expanding upstream publishing services, including AI-assisted manuscript screening, peer review, and research integrity solutions. His work centers on shaping Integra’s brand as a trusted, future-ready partner in scholarly publishing by articulating value, strengthening market presence, and building meaningful connections with the global research community.

Ashutosh has been a prolific guest contributor to The Scholarly Kitchen over the last year, and I strongly encourage you to discover his previous posts, nearly all of which (like today’s post) grapple with the big picture issues facing scholarly communications. Please join me in welcoming Ashotosh, his previous guest posts can be found here, and his first official post as a Chef, “The Journal Article Is Not the Job“, is now available.

David Crotty

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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Thanks, David, for the warm welcome to The Scholarly Kitchen. Grateful to be part of this community and looking forward to contributing to the ongoing conversations shaping scholarly publishing.

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