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: out of office

Gratitude

We’re off for the US Thanksgiving holiday. Some musical gratitude to celebrate with.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 28, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Off Through Labor Day

We’re taking the last week of August off and will be back after the Labor Day holiday.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Summer Break 2024

We’re taking the rest of the week off, and today I leave you with an obscure musical delight from the late 1900s.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 1, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Out of Office: Summer Vacation

We’re out of office until next week. But is anyone really out of office these days?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 3, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Off for Memorial Day, Let Barbecue Season Begin!

We’re off for the Memorial Day weekend, some music to get your summer barbecue started.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 24, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Avoiding April Fools, No Post Today

No post today due to the Easter Holiday and our general disdain for April Fools Day on the internet.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 1, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Happy Holidays, See You in 2024

We’re off for the holidays, see you in January.

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 26, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Out of Office: Thank You for Giving Us a Place to Hang Around

Happy Thanksgiving — we’re off until Monday, but in the meantime, some gratitude via Lucinda Williams.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 23, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Off for Labor Day: Don’t Let This Fading Summer Pass You By

We are off for the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Here, some avian advice on the waning season.

  • By David Crotty
  • Sep 1, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Off for the US Holiday — More Grammar

We are off today and tomorrow for the US Independence Day holiday. Also included, a song that hews carefully to archaic rules about prepositions at the end of sentences.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 3, 2023
  • 1 Comment

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

  • Editing in the Age of Misinformation: A Report on the 2025 EASE Conference
  • Guest Post: Will JAG’s New Models Give Libraries and Publishers a Better Seat at the Federal Funding Table?
  • The Devil is in the Details, Specifically, Titivillus, the “Medieval Demon of Typos”

SSP News

View photos from the 2025 EPIC Awards

Jun 17, 2025

View photos from the 47th Annual Meeting!

Jun 17, 2025

Society for Scholarly Publishing Awards Six Members for Outstanding Contributions

Jun 16, 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