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
    • Mental Health Awareness
    • 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

Search results for: ask the chefs

Ask The Fellows: What Did You Learn At This Year’s SSP Annual Meeting?

[…] the Annual Meeting, but what were the take-home messages for our early career and student Fellowship Award winners? Come see what the Fellows’ fresh perspective led them to say when asked: What Did You Learn At This Year’s SSP Annual Meeting?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Jun 10, 2016
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2014 Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year. Today brings Part 2 of the list.

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 5, 2014
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Year-End Picks for 2010: The Chefs Choose the Cream of the Crop

Image by paul+photos=moody via Flickr To round out what has been really a fantastic year for the Scholarly Kitchen, I’ve asked the Chefs to each list their favorite or most notable posts from the past year, and comment on the […]

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 22, 2010
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Goodbye Dolly

Dolly Parton touched so many people’s lives in so many ways. We reached out to the Chefs for their thoughts on her passing.

  • By David Crotty, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Lettie Y. Conrad, Angela Cochran, Dianndra Roberts, Roy Kaufman, Alice Meadows
  • Aug 28, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

University Presses in Decline…Not so Fast

Alison Mudditt asks a group of experts: what are the unique contributions that university presses make to scholarship and scholarly communication?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Nov 9, 2015
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post: Phill Jones on Learning from the Next Generation of Researchers, A Report on the Early Career Researcher Panel at the STM Frankfurt Conference

Guest Chef Phill Jones returns to discuss the lessons learned at the Frankfurt STM panel meant to introduce publishers to the realities of the lives of postdocs.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Nov 3, 2014
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Chefs: AI and Copyright Licensing

[…] Interest in the copyright infringement litigation between The New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft, et. al., largely siding with the AI companies and strongly favoring the notion of LLM training as fair use. We asked the chefs for their thoughts.

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Roy Kaufman, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Sep 10, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Ask The Chefs — The NIH Steps on the Open Access Accelerator

The NIH has answered the lingering questions about the future of the Nelson Memo. Not only is it still in effect, it’s being accelerated by six months. We asked the Chefs for their thoughts.

  • By David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Haseeb Irfanullah, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 5, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Ask the Chefs: Making Sense of Changing US Policies

We asked the Chefs to weigh in on the policy chaos emerging from Washington over the last ten days.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah, Alice Meadows
  • Jan 30, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ask the Chefs: How Do You Feel About In-person Conferences — Including SSP?

Today we ask the Scholarly Kitchen Chefs how they‘re feeling about in-person conferences in general, and the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting in particular.

  • By Alice Meadows, Tim Vines, Roger C. Schonfeld, Robert Harington, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Lettie Y. Conrad, Alison Mudditt, Judy Luther
  • Mar 23, 2022
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs: How Does Identity Influence Peer Review?

In anticipation of #PeerReviewWeek21 we asked the Chefs about the role of identity in peer review. See what they said and share your views!

  • By Ann Michael, Charlie Rapple, Tim Vines, Haseeb Irfanullah, Alice Meadows, Jasmine Wallace, Robert Harington, Judy Luther
  • Sep 16, 2021
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs: AI and Scholarly Communications

What is the future of AI in scholarly communications? How can applications of AI in scholarly communications effectively leverage research artifacts?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Apr 25, 2019
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Will You Be Writing About Five Years From Now?

[…] discussing and debating on the Scholarly Kitchen five years from now? Will scholarly communications look very different? Will there be virtually no change at all? This month we asked the Chefs: What will you be writing about five years from now?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Apr 19, 2018
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask The Chefs: If You Were Starting A Publishing Operation Today, Which Core Competencies Would You Consider Critical?

Editorial excellence? Agility? Data analytics? Customer focus? UI/UX? What are the most critical core competencies for publishers today? We asked the Chefs and we’d like your answer too!

  • By Ann Michael
  • Aug 10, 2017
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Will Be The Hottest Topics At The SSP Annual Meeting?

With only 4 weeks left before the SSP Annual Meeting, we asked the Chefs what they thought would be the hottest topic discussed. We want your views as well!

  • By Ann Michael
  • May 4, 2017
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Posts pagination

Prev 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 … 23 Next

Official Blog of:

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The Chefs

  • Rick Anderson
  • Todd A Carpenter
  • Angela Cochran
  • Lettie Y. Conrad
  • David Crotty
  • Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Roohi Ghosh
  • Robert Harington
  • Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Phill Jones
  • Roy Kaufman
  • Scholarly Kitchen
  • Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Alice Meadows
  • Alison Mudditt
  • Charlie Rapple
  • Dianndra Roberts
  • Maryam Sayab
  • Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Avi Staiman
  • Randy Townsend
  • Tim Vines
  • Hong Zhou

Interested in writing for The Scholarly Kitchen? Learn more.

Most Recent

  • Guest Post — From an Accidental Title List to a Connected Supply Chain: My Years with KBART
  • Guest Post – The Evolution of Eras: Agentic Discovery Makes Way for Agentic Consumption
  • Guest Post – Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Publishing: Are We Moving Faster Than the Evidence?

SSP News

Microbiology Society Selects KGL PubFactory for Journal Hosting and Publishing Platform

Oct 12, 2026

Silverchair Launches Multi-Publisher MCP Pilot, Expanding Access to Research from Independent Publishers

Oct 7, 2026

KGL and Thad McIlroy Partner to Launch KGL AI Academy – The Future of Publishing

Oct 7, 2026
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