Closed for the SSP Annual Meeting
We’re taking the next two days off for the SSP’s Annual Meeting. You can follow the twitter hashtag #ssp2015. New posts to resume on Monday.
Welcome a New Chef in the Kitchen, Karin Wulf
Please welcome our newest Chef, Karin Wulf from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
The Value in Attending Editorial Board Meetings
It is now conference season, which for me means lots and lots of editorial board meetings. The next swing comes in the fall when the fiscal year comes to a close. With 35 journals in the American Society of Civil […]
Elvis Has Left the Kitchen: Thanks Kent
A tip of the hat to a departing “Chef”.
Central Casting — The Funding Problems We’re Baking Into the Future of Scholarly Publishing
As we drift into a scholarly economy with centralized payment mechanisms and greater dependence on government funding, are we truly setting ourselves up for long-term independence and success?
Welcoming a New Chef into the Kitchen: Charlie Rapple
Charlie Rapple, cofounder of Kudos, joins The Scholarly Kitchen.
Welcoming a New Chef into the Kitchen: Roger Schonfeld
Meet Roger Schonfeld, our newest Chef in The Kitchen.
A Head of Schedule — The Increasing Importance of Project and Portfolio Management
The project manager has become a critical part of success in a publishing world with more complex systems, processes, and vendor relationships. But finding a good one is still a challenge.
CNN and the End of the World
An odd find from earlier this week — the video CNN plans to play at the end of the world.
A Look Back at 2014 in The Scholarly Kitchen
We’re off for the holidays, and offer this look back at 2014 in lieu of new posts. See you in 2015.
Welcoming a New Chef into the Kitchen: Phill Jones
Digital Science’s Phill Jones officially joins the Scholarly Kitchen as a regular blogger.
Buried in the Matryoshka — Unpacking the "Value Add" of Peer Review
Publishers often slap labels on activities that are complex, expensive, and high-value. Worse, we often accept people calling these activities “value-add” when they are core functions of how scientific information shared.
UPDATED — 82 Things Publishers Do (2014 Edition)
The annual update to the list adds some important items overlooked on prior versions, including design, enforcement of editorial policies, and Board interactions.
Well, Blow Me Down — A Tale of Spinach, Citations, Nutrition, Epistemology, and Cognitive Ease
More and more studies are emerging showing how misdirecting and expanding citations can lead to long-term misconceptions and mistaken belief systems in the sciences.
Instruction Junction — The Ballooning Lists of Editorial Policies, and the Burdens They Create
Long “Instructions to Authors” filled with ancillary policies and undifferentiated requirements don’t help authors, staff, or editors. As the graveyard for unmade decisions, they’ve only gotten longer and more opaque. Maybe it’s time to clean yours up!