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Ask The Chefs: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs reflect on what they took away from the conversations and vibes at the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Charlie Rapple, Roy Kaufman, Robert Harington, Alice Meadows, Randy Townsend
  • Jun 9, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing

These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Apr 16, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Is it Over Now (Social Media Version)?

In 2023 we twice assessed the social media landscape and with the explosion of Bluesky over the last weeks it seemed a good time to reassess. How do Chefs use social media differently now, and what are they seeing as platforms of choice or opportunity?

  • By Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Todd A Carpenter, Lettie Y. Conrad, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Alice Meadows, Charlie Rapple, David Crotty
  • Nov 19, 2024
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Ask The Chefs: cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing”

We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Angela Cochran
  • Nov 16, 2023
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Chefs ‘Set the Stage’ for SSP New Directions Seminar

Scholarly Kitchen Chefs open SSP’s 2020 New Directions seminar discussing how we can support academic peer-reviewed research and the entire academic publishing ecosystem during this unprecedented year of disruptions, disease, and disappointments.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Charlie Rapple, Haseeb Irfanullah, Judy Luther, Alice Meadows
  • Sep 28, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

The Power of Community — Why Much of Scholarly Publishing Is Unlikely to Change Quickly

Journals as communication vehicles that bind communities of practice are still important and well-regarded, but there are external forces changing them and our industry, along with a rising level of neglect, which may mean a harder future for them than ever. What might we lose? And how does this explain why change is so slow in coming?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 12, 2016
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Tell Us What You Want, What You Really Really Want – First Results from a New Survey on Scholarly Society Membership

Results from a new survey – one of the largest of its kind – shed light on why people choose to belong to scholarly societies. And why they don’t…

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Mar 24, 2015
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Republic of Letters, Visualized as Social Networks

Predating journals, a social network of scholars known as the Republic of Letters generated many breakthroughs. Now, their social networks, as represented by their letters, are being mapped.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 9, 2010
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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