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: Copyright

Browse By

Roman Numeral Error Shaved Ten Years Off A Movie’s Copyright

Best double check those Roman numerals in your copyright notice…

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations — Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Five pending cases may set new ground rules for use of training materials for AI. Here is what to watch.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Mar 7, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Thinking About ChatGPT and the Future — Where Are We On AI’s Development Curve?

A compilation of links and a video to incisive analyses of ChatGPT and what it means for the future.

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) and Elsevier Conclude Negotiations for Access to ScienceDirect Journals

Ginger Williams and Posie Aagaard offer a look at the Texas Library Coalition and its new deal with Elsevier.

  • By Ginger Williams, Posie Aagaard
  • Jan 12, 2023
  • 0 Comments

GitHub is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing

GitHub and Microsoft are being sued for using open source software without creator attribution in alleged violation of open licensing requirements. What implications does this have for the scholarly literature and Creative Commons licenses?

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Jan 5, 2023
  • 14 Comments

Return of the Big Deal: Developments in Texas and India

New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jan 4, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Guest Post — Missing Revenue in the Global Flip: Getting the Open Access Math Right

A flip to open access requires a holistic view of a journal’s incoming revenue. Are there important contributions to revenue that disappear with open access, and how can those funds be replaced?

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Sep 28, 2022
  • 5 Comments

Guest Post —  UK Law and Artificial Intelligence:  UK IPO Issues Problematic Report

CCC’s Roy Kaufman looks at the potential impacts of a new UK proposal allowing for commercial text- and data-mining of copyrighted materials.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Jul 25, 2022
  • 1 Comment

10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 2)

An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 18, 2022
  • 2 Comments

10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 1)

An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 17, 2022
  • 2 Comments

Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?

A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 11, 2022
  • 16 Comments

Is Infrastructure Consolidation the Next Step? CCC Acquires Ringgold

In the light of CCCs acquisition of Ringgold last week, three Chefs, Phill Jones, Roger Schonfeld, and Todd Carpenter reflect on the motivations for the move and its implications for PIDs and organisational identifiers.

  • By Phill Jones, Roger C. Schonfeld, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 10, 2022
  • 7 Comments

“Positively Disrupt(ing) Research Culture for the Better”: An Interview with Alexandra Freeman of Octopus

Octopus is a new sharing platform that hopes to disrupt research culture for the better. An interview with founder Dr. Alexandra Freeman.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 18, 2021
  • 17 Comments

Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 2)

Robert Harington interviews a number of experts with a few burning questions on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in a two part post, part two appearing here.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 29, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 1)

Robert Harington interviews a number of experts with a few burning questions on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in a two part post, part one appearing here:

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 28, 2021
  • 0 Comments
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

  • Guest Post — Open Access for Monographs is Here. But Are we Ready for It?
  • SXSW Interactive: Slow Down To Speed Up
  • Guest Post — Modern Comments and Their Discontents: When an Update Isn’t an Improvement

Recent Tweets

Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
letpub LetPub @letpub ·
9 Feb

@scholarlykitchn reflects on the diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible (DEIA) community in scholarly communications: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/02/07/know-better-do-better-learned-publishing-reflects-on-deia-in-scholarly-communications/ #diversity #inclusion #DEIA #scicomm

Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
scholarlypub SSP @scholarlypub ·
9 Feb

• Today on @scholarlykitchn • https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/02/09/guest-post-introducing-two-new-toolkits-to-advance-inclusion-in-scholarly-communication-part-2/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=ScholarlyPub

Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
jafurtado Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado ·
9 Feb

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table - Steven Inchcoombe, by Robert Harington @rharington / @scholarlykitchn https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/01/30/chefs-de-cuisine-perspectives-from-publishings-top-table-steven-inchcoombe/

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