Mark Your Calendar — Upcoming Scholarly Kitchen Events
The Scholarly Kitchen is hitting the road. Information on our upcoming meeting panels and webinar is provided.
Off for the Long Weekend
We’re off for the long (US) holiday weekend. Posts to resume Tuesday.
A Solution for Copyright Reform: The Clown Egg Register
Clown faces painted onto eggs as a method for registering copyright. Shudder.
The SSP Library — A Valuable Resource for Scholarly Communications
Have you visited the SSP library lately? It’s a treasure trove of information about scholarly communications, including videos of the sessions from this year’s Annual Meeting.
Revisiting: Six Years of Predatory Publishing
A collection of Scholarly Kitchen posts about Predatory Publishing.
Design Matters: How One Typeface Came to Dominate Movie Posters
A look at movie poster typography, and how one typeface became the standard.
A Surveillance System Disguised as a High School Reunion
John Oliver takes Facebook to task for their seemingly insincere apology advertisements.
Measuring Societal Impact or, Meet the New Metric, Same as the Old Metric
Funders are increasingly demanding measurements of “real world” impact from researchers. Does this steer us toward the same traps we’re already in from the ways we already do research assessment?
Fourth of July: Use Your Freedom of Choice (We’re on hiatus)
It’s time for our annual summer hiatus. In the meantime, a look at a band and a song that at first seemed clever, and now prophetic.
Design Matters: The Snellen Eye Chart
Interesting background on the functional design that went into the letters on the eye chart used to test visual acuity.
The Scholarly Kitchen’s Greatest Hits — 10 Years of Top Posts
One last look back on our anniversary — what are the most viewed posts for the last decade?
Revisiting 2013’s Questions (and Answers) from the Society for Scholarly Publishing
A look back at video interviews from the 2013 SSP Annual Meeting.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Lava Flows
Geologist Jerry Magloughlin looks at the different ways that lava flows.
Sometimes the Reveal is Better than the Magic Trick
You can still be manipulated, even when you know you’re being manipulated.
50 Years in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
A look back at a cultural icon on the 50th anniversary of his greatest creation.