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

cOAlition S’s Rights Confiscation Strategy Continues

By calling its new policy a “Rights Retention Strategy,” cOAlition S is engaging in doublespeak. This strategy actually does exactly the opposite of what it claims.

Ask The Chefs: Permanent Change?

So much change has happened in the last few months. What changes do you think will “stick” in scholarly publishing?

Utility, Morality, Strategy, and Scholarly Communication

Should the library focus first on serving its local constituency, or on changing the scholarly communication ecosystem? No matter how we answer this question, the implications will be complex.

Ask The Chefs: New Normal Part 2

From binge watching, binge listening, reconnecting with neighbors and old friends, Zoom happy hours or Zoom family game nights, to cooking, exercising, and gardening, we’re all figuring out how to get through our days. What’s your strategy? Part 2 of our answers today.

Helping Researchers Communicate Their Findings to the World: An Interview with Emma Feloy of Research Outreach

Research Outreach is a young company that helps researchers make their work more easily intelligible to a lay audience. Editorial Director Emma Feloy answers some questions about how their service works.

Marketing Amidst a Pandemic

Our Chefs reflect on considerations for marketing and marketers amid the pandemic.

Measuring the Success of Transformative Agreements

I asked twelve publisher/customer pairs how they will measure the success of their transformative deals five years from now. The responses were very interesting.

Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?

One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?

ACM’s New Open Access Agreements: A Q&A with Scott Delman

A conversation with Scott Delman of ACM about the publisher’s recently-announced deal with four major US research universities.

The Kitchen at the APE: Five Chefs Share Takeaways from the 2020 Academic Publishing in Europe Conference

Here are some takeaways from last week’s Academic Publishing in Europe meeting, from Chefs who were there (either physically or virtually).