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Has Google Become a Journal Publisher?

Google’s journal about artificial intelligence (AI) coming from editors and authors associated with Google and Google Brain raises questions about conflicts, vanity publishing, and Google as a media company.

Sometimes the Reveal is Better than the Magic Trick

You can still be manipulated, even when you know you’re being manipulated.

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.

The Race to the Bottom — Short-term Bargains versus Long-term Vitality

Haggling for cheaper content today will certainly have hidden and unpleasant costs — large and small — down the road.

Paper Accepted…Unless the Letter Was Forged

A new kind of predator is taking advantage of unsuspecting authors. In this post, Angela Cochran discusses the forged acceptance letters received and what publishers can do to help authors avoid this costly and embarrassing pitfall.

Can Blockchain Withstand Skepticism? An Inquiry

The buzz around blockchain is mounting. But does it fit with scholarly publishing’s incentives and practices?

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 […]

Guest Post: Towards a Diversity Manifesto Part 2 – Making Long Overdue Change Happen in Scholarly Communication

In part 2 of Nancy Roberts’ and Phill Jones’ collaboration, Nancy, the founder of Business Inclusivity lays out the starting point for an emerging manifesto on diversity based on the recent workshop at the Researcher to Reader conference.

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?

Towards a Diversity Manifesto Part 1 – How a White, Middle-aged, Straight, Cisgender Man Co-organized a Workshop on Diversity Without an Apparent Shred of Irony.

At the end of February, Nancy Roberts of Business Inclusivity and I co-organized a workshop on diversity for the Researcher to Reader conference. In this post I explore my motivations for doing so and talk about why I think so few men seem comfortable participating in these discussions.

Calling It Out, Spelling It Out, Stamping It Out: Recognizing and Avoiding Bias

In honour of International Women’s Day, Time’s Up, #MeToo, and a range of recent initiatives trying to tackle equality in the workplace, Charlie Rapple provides thoughts on how to avoid inappropriate comments and behaviors that unintentionally give offense.