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Ask The Chefs: What Will You Be Writing About Five Years From Now?

What will we be discussing and debating on the Scholarly Kitchen five years from now? Will scholarly communications look very different? Will there be virtually no change at all? This month we asked the Chefs: What will you be writing about five years from now?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Apr 19, 2018
  • 2 Comments

Interview: Keith Marmer, AVP & ED for Technology & Venture Commercialization at the University of Utah

How can secrecy and openness most productively coexist when it comes to the intellectual property of universities and their research faculty? Some thoughts from the new vice president for technology and venture commercialization at a Tier 1 research university.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 11, 2018
  • 8 Comments

In Latest Sign of Its Resurgence, Clarivate Acquires Kopernio

Today, Clarivate is announcing that it recently acquired Kopernio, a startup launched last year to streamline access to scholarly content.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 10, 2018
  • 5 Comments

FBI Indicts Nine Iranians in a Massive Scheme to Target Academic Credentials and Steal Content

At a press conference on Friday last week, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unsealed indictments of nine Iranian citizens. This sentence is an odd way to start a Scholarly Kitchen post, admittedly. What makes this case interesting to […]

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 28, 2018
  • 18 Comments

Is #DeleteFacebook Going to Change Academic Life and Scholarly Publishing?

What might the recent backlash to revelations about how Facebook was exploited mean for the scholarly ecosystem?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 26, 2018
  • 7 Comments

Openness and The Two Cultures

Robert Harington addresses openness, and the widening divisions in the “Two Cultures” — which C. P. Snow would likely be appalled to find are as apparent as they ever were.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 21, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Blindspot — Was a Key Factor Missed in the Study of Viral Lies?

A recent study of the spread of lies on Twitter is an important advance, but the authors missed a potentially huge factor, and one we can’t ignore.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 12, 2018
  • 3 Comments

PeerJ Waives APCs and Pivots Again

Why would a for-profit, VC funded publisher celebrate by committing itself to a full year’s worth of additional expenses with no additional revenue?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 9, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Consolidation in Academic Publishing Has a New Target

Research publishers may acquire textbook publishers in order to increase market share in libraries with inclusive access programs

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 8, 2018
  • 7 Comments

A Curious Blindness Among Peer Review Initiatives

Overlooking the need for paid Editorial Office staff hobbles many attempts to reform peer review.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Mar 7, 2018
  • 63 Comments

Catching the Wave — The Tide Turns Toward the Subscription Model

Silicon Valley’s advertising model has been exploited, and free information’s price is more apparent. Will we be saved by subscription model innovations?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 6, 2018
  • 50 Comments

An Open Letter to the AAUP: Faculty Authors and “Full Freedom in Publication”

In 1940, the AAUP published a Statement on Academic Freedom. In 2018, it’s time for it to be updated–and some items clarified.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 5, 2018
  • 48 Comments

Fixing Instead of Breaking, Part Three — Blockchain, RA21, Privacy, and Trust

We continue to battle the tidal wave of data with a bucket brigade of individual privacy settings. Maybe it’s time to pause and consider a state-level solution, ala Estonia.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 23, 2018
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post: Institutional Alignment: The University Press Redux

A conference at the British Library provides ample evidence of the breadth of the university press sector and the absolute necessity of a clear institutional mission.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Feb 21, 2018
  • 2 Comments

Evaluating Open Access Programs

It often seems that it is taken for granted that open access will accelerate scientific discovery, but how would we evaluate this? Do we even know that it is true?

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Feb 15, 2018
  • 56 Comments
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