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Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.

The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 5, 2023
  • 45 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Power Imbalances of Language Policing

Is there a “right” way to speak, or is language policing more revealing about the anxiety of the scolder than the expression of the speaker?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 30, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — Making Research Accessible: The arXiv Accessibility Forum Moved the Action Upstream

Shamsi Brinn (UX Manager at arXiv) and Bill Kasdorf (Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC) discuss the recent Accessibility Forum hosted by arXiv. Over 2,000 people registered for the Forum; over 350 attended the live event; and hundreds more are accessing the recently published videos.

  • By Shamsi Brinn, Bill Kasdorf
  • Jun 28, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Avi Staiman

Today, Avi Staiman officially joins us as a regular contributor in The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 23, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — OER or OERs: Can There Can Be Only One (Acronym)?

Why say OERs when Open Educational Resources is already plural? A guest post from librarian Emma Wood on the confounding inconsistencies of language.

  • By Emma Wood
  • May 12, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Artificial Intelligence Not Yet Intelligent Enough to be a Trusted Research Aid

Can current AI offerings be trusted as research tools?

  • By Richard de Grijs
  • Apr 27, 2023
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – Mapping Open Science Resources from Around the World by Discipline

Jo Havemann presents a map containing more than 200 resources and supplementary data nodes across the spectrum of available tools, guidelines, events, and services by research discipline, also including general resources that are sortable by Open Science principle, language or country.

  • By Johanna Havemann
  • Apr 19, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Textpocalypse: A Literary Scholar Eyes the “Grey Goo” of AI

What will the “grey goo” of AI generated text do to us? A scholar of writing and technology talks with us about AI and Large Language Models.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 13, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post – GPT-3 Wrote an Entire Paper on Itself. Should Publishers be Concerned?

Saikiran Chandha discusses the impact of GPT-3 and related models on research, the potential question marks, and the steps that scholarly publishers can take to protect their interests.

  • By Saikiran Chandha
  • Apr 12, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Academic Publishers Are Missing the Point on ChatGPT

Avi Staiman discusses the value that ChatGPT can bring to scholarly communication, particularly leveling the playing field for English as an Additional Language authors.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Mar 31, 2023
  • 27 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post – Scholarly Publishing as a Global Endeavor: Leveraging Open Source Software for Bibliodiversity

Mark Huskisson looks at the open source tools enabling a world of scholarly communication that is more broadly global, diverse, and inclusive than is perhaps recognized.

  • By Mark Huskisson
  • Feb 16, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Introducing Two New Toolkits to Advance Inclusion in Scholarly Communication: Part 1

The first of a two part series introducing new toolkits from C4DISC: Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication and the Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

  • By Sabrina Ashwell, Jenny Peng
  • Feb 8, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2022, Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.

  • By David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Jill O'Neill, Charlie Rapple
  • Nov 30, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Expanding Scholarly Kitchen Translations Collections

Today we announce another round of article translations, this time into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 5, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Announcing Scholarly Kitchen Translation Collections

Announcing the first releases from our new program to create and offer translations of Scholarly Kitchen posts into different languages.

  • By David Crotty
  • Sep 1, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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