Rick Anderson, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Rick Anderson is Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. He has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen. He has served as president of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), and is a recipient of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. In 2015 he was elected President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He serves as an unpaid advisor on the library boards of numerous publishers and organizations including biorXiv, Elsevier, JSTOR, and Oxford University Press.

Articles by Rick Anderson

Book Review: Academic Freedom, edited by Jennifer Lackey (Oxford University Press, 2018)

A review of Academic Freedom the latest book in Oxford University Press’s series Engaging Philosophy.

Why You Should Care about Open Access: An Open Letter to Scholarly and Scientific Authors

If you’re a scholarly and scientific author and you think the open access movement is irrelevant to your interests, think again.

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Baffling Funder Mandate

Famed detective Sherlock Holmes does his best to help his friend Dr. Watson figure out how best to comply with the requirements of Plan S.

Do You Have Concerns about Plan S? Then You Must be an Irresponsible, Privileged, Conspiratorial Hypocrite

Over 1,400 researchers signed an open letter expressing concern about Plan S. Then Twitter came for them — and, more particularly, for the woman who organized the letter.

Get The Research: Impactstory Announces a New Science-Finding Tool for the General Public

An interview with Impactstory’s Jason Priem about their new tool, Get The Research.

Open Access, Academic Freedom, and the Spectrum of Coercive Power

Who has the most power to take choice away from authors?

HathiTrust Expands Offerings to Researchers: A Conversation with Mike Furlough (and Others)

The HathiTrust Research Center has recently announced a significant expansion of its services. Rick Anderson discusses the changes with Executive Director Mike Furlough and staff.

Denialism on the Rocks: It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn’t Matter

Thanks to a major new international research study, it’s no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention. The question is: do we have the will to confront it?

One Author’s Novel Approach to Article Self-Publishing: An Interview with Allyson Mower

An author found that the relevant journals were unwilling to publish an article of historical research that found evidence for a surprising and somewhat controversial proposition about the founding of the University of Utah. So what did she decide to do with her article? Something rather unusual, it turns out.

Is Copyright Piracy Morally Wrong or Merely Illegal? The Malum Prohibitum/Malum in Se Conundrum

Is copyright infringement malum prohibitum (wrong only because it’s prohibited) or malum in se (morally wrong in and of itself)? Interestingly, scholcomm commentators and legal reference materials often characterize it as the former–while both statute and case law treat it like the latter, classifying it as “property theft” and regularly awarding its victims both statutory and punitive damages.