The Scholarly Kitchen

What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing

  • About
  • Archives
  • Collections
    Scholarly Publishing 101 -- The Basics
    Collections
    • Scholarly Publishing 101 -- The Basics
    • Academia
    • Business Models
    • Discovery and Access
    • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
    • Economics
    • Libraries
    • Marketing
    • Metrics and Analytics
    • Open Access
    • Organizational Management
    • Peer Review
    • Strategic Planning
    • Technology and Disruption
  • Translations
    topographic world map
    Translations
    • All Translations
    • Chinese
    • German
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Spanish
  • Chefs
  • Podcast
  • Follow

Archives: Business Models

Browse By

Guest Post — Event Streaming Start-Ups: A Strategic Overview and Taxonomy

The value of streaming video as a genre of scholarly communication is just being established. Today, Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger profile the leading start-ups in this space.

  • By Danielle Cooper, Dylan Ruediger
  • Apr 20, 2022
  • 2 Comments

A New Twist on a Publishing Scam: Ghost-authoring Book Reviews for Fun and Profit

In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 5, 2022
  • 13 Comments

Retroactively Open: Elsevier Backflips for NERL Agreement

In a novel license agreement, Elsevier agrees to open backfile content from a consortium of elite private institutions. Will other libraries and publishers follow this model?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Mar 16, 2022
  • 9 Comments

Revisiting: A Parable of Innovation in Publishing — A Mostly True Story

Joe Esposito looks back at a 2011 post offering a parable of the role in innovation in publishing and makes the case that we should not criticize companies that try and fail to do new things.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 15, 2022
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post – Plan S and Scholarly Publishing: Some Lessons Learned

Sally Ekanayaka reviews a webinar featuring several key players in implementing Plan S and asks what lessons have been learned?

  • By Sally Ekanayaka
  • Mar 8, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Expanded Access to Paywalled Content: A Hidden Benefit of Transformative Agreements

What has not made headlines but is also a noteworthy outcome of transformative agreements is the significant increase in access and readership for paywalled articles that they facilitate. 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Feb 23, 2022
  • 2 Comments

The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 2)

In this second of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 22, 2022
  • 3 Comments

The Future of Scholarly Societies: Interviews with Society Leaders (Part 1)

In this first of two posts, Robert Harington talks with several forward-thinking Society Executive Directors/CEOs, representing a range of fields, on the future of scholarly society operations and strategy.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 21, 2022
  • 0 Comments

Revisiting — Additive, Substitutive, Subtractive: Strategic Scenarios for Publishers in an OA World

Revisiting a 2008 post noting that while it is often argued that open access will reduce the overall cost of scholarly communications, this article proposed that OA will be additive to the size of the current market.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Feb 17, 2022
  • 8 Comments

The State of the Version of Record

The “version of record” is an organizing concept in scholarly publishing. It is by referent to that version that others are understood and it is the object of financial models, policies, and recognition and reward systems.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Feb 14, 2022
  • 35 Comments

Opening The Book: SSP Charleston Pre-Conference Video Now Available

The SSP’s Charleston Pre-Conference Session looked at key issues and challenges in OA monograph publishing as well as how best to evaluate new OA book models and their potential ROI.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 28, 2022
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Does Open Access Cannibalize Print Sales for Monographs?

John Sherer describes a new research project which will look at the impact of open access on print monograph sales, particularly in light of the free access provided early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • By John Sherer
  • Jan 27, 2022
  • 48 Comments

Guest Post — Corporate Strategy and Program Management: The Key to Navigating Disruption

Laura Martin and Rashmi Verma take a look at how organizations handle change and disruption through strategic planning and structured execution.

  • By Laura Martin, Rashmi Verma
  • Jan 25, 2022
  • 1 Comment

The Other Diversity in Scholarly Publishing

After becoming a Scholarly Kitchen Chef back in July 2019, I have never stopped being amazed by the numerous dynamic issues and developments that scholarly publishing is dealing with. As a biologist by training, ‘diversity’ is the word that comes to mind.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Jan 24, 2022
  • 7 Comments

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect as Content Supercontinent? 

Does today’s news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar? 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 18, 2022
  • 20 Comments
Newer Older

Browse By

Official Blog of:

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The Chefs

  • Rick Anderson
  • Todd A Carpenter
  • Angela Cochran
  • Lettie Y. Conrad
  • David Crotty
  • Phil Davis
  • Joseph Esposito
  • Robert Harington
  • Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Phill Jones
  • Roy Kaufman
  • Scholarly Kitchen
  • Alice Meadows
  • Ann Michael
  • Alison Mudditt
  • Jill O'Neill
  • Charlie Rapple
  • Dianndra Roberts
  • Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Tim Vines
  • Jasmine Wallace
  • Karin Wulf

Most Recent

  • Know Better, Do Better: Learned Publishing Reflects on DEIA in Scholarly Communications
  • Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Jay Flynn
  • A Library of Air

Recent Tweets

Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
ericbenchimol Eric Benchimol @ericbenchimol ·
13h

Excellent article in @scholarlykitchn on the topic of our @JCanAssnGastro Symposium at #CDDW2023 (Mar 5, 0900) on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility in publishing. @marshllj @CanGastroAssn @PaulSin21684764 @laura_targownik https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/02/07/know-better-do-better-learned-publishing-reflects-on-deia-in-scholarly-communications/

Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
emanmsw Eman H. Aly, MSW @emanmsw ·
11h

This is fascinating from @scholarlykitchn https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/01/13/did-chatgpt-just-lie-to-me/?informz=1&nbd=39bed2e3-5635-40ca-ad03-6aac8b5ed161&nbd_source=informz

Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
scholarlypub SSP @scholarlypub ·
10h

• Today on @scholarlykitchn • https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/02/07/know-better-do-better-learned-publishing-reflects-on-deia-in-scholarly-communications/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=ScholarlyPub

Follow the Scholarly Kitchen Blog Follow Us
Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is to advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking. SSP established The Scholarly Kitchen blog in February 2008 to keep SSP members and interested parties aware of new developments in publishing.

The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog. Opinions on The Scholarly Kitchen are those of the authors. They are not necessarily those held by the Society for Scholarly Publishing nor by their respective employers.

  • About
  • Archives
  • Chefs
  • Podcast
  • Follow
  • Advertising
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Website Credits
ISSN 2690-8085