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

Archives: creativity

Discovery Versus Filtering and Other Questions Raised by Data-driven Services

As we explore the new world of data-driven discovery tools, we must also examine their utility, their trustworthiness and what impact they may have on the creative process.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 2, 2015
  • 36 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Video Rewind — The Creative Deadline, a Video

Simple technologies plus creativity and hard work can create stunning results, as this 2010 video shows.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 28, 2012
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Making Mistakes in a Good Direction — The God Complex and Experiments

This fascinating TED talk will resonate on many levels with people who read this blog — study design, arrogance, vindication, creativity, inspiration, complexity, evolution, and authority are all dealt with. The topic is “the God complex” — the tendency for […]

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 20, 2012
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Plan vs. Path — Which Is Better for Innovation?

Planning is a centerpiece of corporate behavior, but to encourage innovation, blazing a trail is perhaps a better approach.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 5, 2011
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Is the Music Industry’s Recent Past Still Instructive?

Recent inflection points for the music industry may yet again prove instructive for publishers and others. But is it already too late for us to recover the craft of making products rather than providing content?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Oct 7, 2010
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

The Internet’s Extended Cultural Memory — Is It Sapping Our Creativity?

One of the great benefits of the Internet is how it has extended our cultural memory. But has this also stolen our freedom of thought, our ability to create original works of art?

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 25, 2010
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Official Blog of:

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The Chefs

  • Rick Anderson
  • Todd A Carpenter
  • Angela Cochran
  • Lettie Y. Conrad
  • David Crotty
  • Joseph Esposito
  • Roohi Ghosh
  • Robert Harington
  • Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Phill Jones
  • Roy Kaufman
  • Scholarly Kitchen
  • Alice Meadows
  • Ann Michael
  • Alison Mudditt
  • Jill O'Neill
  • Charlie Rapple
  • Dianndra Roberts
  • Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Avi Staiman
  • Randy Townsend
  • Tim Vines
  • Jasmine Wallace
  • Karin Wulf
  • Hong Zhou

Interested in writing for The Scholarly Kitchen? Learn more.

Most Recent

  • Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem
  • The Best Optical Illusions of 2024
  • Guest Post — Vital Voices: The Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications

SSP News

SSP 47th Annual Meeting Posters Now Available on ScienceOpen

Jul 10, 2025

A Shared Commitment to Research Integrity

Jul 9, 2025

Celebrating the Generations Fund, Raising $500,000 to Support the Future of Scholarly Communications

Jun 30, 2025
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