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Ask The Chefs: Society Sustainability

With many professional societies finding their revenue sources under pressure, this month we asked the Chefs: How might professional societies continue to be sustainable?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Mar 28, 2019
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Ask The Chefs: Books That Changed Your Life

We’ve all been touched by a book, one influenced us in some profound way. This month we asked the Chefs to tell us about those books.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Dec 20, 2018
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research? – Part 2

In yesterday’s “ Ask the Community (and Chefs)” post, librarians and people involved in various ways in journal publishing shared their thoughts about how to increase equity in open research. Today’s responses provide researcher perspectives and reflections on the wider […]

  • By Siân Harris
  • Oct 25, 2018
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Was The Most Important Development In Scholarly Communications In The Last 40 Years?

The Society for Scholarly Publishing is celebrating its 40th anniversary, so this month we asked the Chefs, What was the most important development in scholarly communications in the last 40 years?

  • By Ann Michael
  • May 18, 2018
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Is The Most Important Data For A Publisher To Capture?

[…] that what we collect and what we do with that information is sensitive. At ASCE, we have always chosen to ask for the bare minimum in the registration process because we don’t want to put in any barriers to the […]

  • By Ann Michael
  • Apr 5, 2017
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask The Chefs: How Does The Increased Use of Adjunct Faculty Affect Scholarly Publishing?

How does a differentiation between faculty on separate tracks for research or educational roles will drive change in the reward system? How might it impact scholarly publishing?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Nov 19, 2015
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Is Your Favorite Yogi Berra Quote And Why?

In honor of the wisdom and humor of Yogi Berra, this month we asked the Chefs: What is your favorite Yogi Berra quote and why?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Oct 22, 2015
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs: Are You a Folder or a Roller? What Travel Tips Have Worked For You?

It’s that time of the year again when even the non-traveler becomes a traveler. This month we asked the Chefs for their most useful travel tips. Come by and add yours!

  • By Ann Michael
  • Jul 2, 2015
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs: How Can We Improve the Article Review and Submission Process?

What’s wrong with peer review and article submission processes? What can publishers, authors, and reviewers do to improve the status quo?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Mar 26, 2015
  • 49 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask the Chefs: "What Was the Best Conference You Attended This Year, and Why?"

Image via Wikipedia This month’s “ Ask the Chefs” asks our corps of intrepid seat-fillers to reflect on which conferences and meetings they attended and identify their favorite, the best, or the most memorable of the lot. The question posed: “What was […]

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 5, 2011
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Community: What Did SSP 2023 Mean to You?

In the last of this series of posts about this year’s Annual Meeting, SSP’s Marketing and Communications Committee asked members of our community what the conference meant to them.

  • By MIchael Casp, Michael Groth, Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Jennifer Regala
  • Jun 26, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 13 mins

Ask the Community: What Would Improve Trust in Peer Review?

Peer Review Week posts continue! Last week we asked the Chefs, and this week we asked the global community: “what would improve trust in peer review?”

  • By Siân Harris
  • Sep 24, 2020
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Kitchen at the APE: Five Chefs Share Takeaways from the 2020 Academic Publishing in Europe Conference

Here are some takeaways from last week’s Academic Publishing in Europe meeting, from Chefs who were there (either physically or virtually).

  • By Rick Anderson, Ann Michael, Roger C. Schonfeld, Michael Clarke, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 23, 2020
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask The Delegates: What Was Your Key Takeaway From The SSP Annual Meeting?

While we normally Ask The Chefs, this time we’ve Asked the Delegates to tell us about their experiences and takeaways from the SSP Annual Meeting. Come hear what they had to say!

  • By Ann Michael
  • Jun 6, 2018
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Academic Publishing in the Age of AI: From Content to Trust

AI in science should not be viewed merely as a productivity tool layered onto existing workflows. It represents a structural shift in how knowledge moves through society, and therefore in how scientific authority is established and maintained.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke
  • Apr 22, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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