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: readers

Recurring Dream — Organizations with Subscriptions Are More Valuable

Even Silicon Valley is finding that recurring revenues (aka, subscriptions) lead to more valuable businesses, while helping smaller companies thrive.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 7, 2018
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Catching the Wave — The Tide Turns Toward the Subscription Model

Silicon Valley’s advertising model has been exploited, and free information’s price is more apparent. Will we be saved by subscription model innovations?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 6, 2018
  • 50 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Scholarly Kitchen 10th Anniversary Survey

Ending our week-long celebration of The Scholarly Kitchen’s first decade, we are delighted to launch our first-ever readership survey. Find out how you can give us your feedback!

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Mar 2, 2018
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Focusing on Value — 102 Things Journal Publishers Do (2018 Update)

In this update, the focus shifts to the value journal publishers offer, and who benefits.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 6, 2018
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 26 mins

Caught in the Middle — Can Publishers Resolve Contradictory Expectations?

A session at ALPSP shines a light on why publishers are caught in an impossible situation — satisfying customers who demand different things at different times, and who are not aligned around the ultimate benefit they all seek to deliver.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 29, 2016
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The New(ish) Kids on the Block – Touring the Megajournals

A tour of four major “megajournals” and some of their neighbors finds a few common approaches and a few distinguishing features, but the entire category may need to be rethought given the lack of “mega” generally among the set.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 5, 2016
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

University Presses: "Under Fire" or Just Under the Gun (Like the Rest of Us)?

Are university presses really “under fire,” or are they simply experiencing the natural consequences of doing the wrong things at the wrong time in a marketplace that has evolved away from them?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 19, 2014
  • 113 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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

  • Confused and Ambivalent: Scholarly Authors and Creative Commons Licenses
  • Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem
  • The Best Optical Illusions of 2024

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