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Ask the Chefs: AI and Copyright Licensing

The US Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in the copyright infringement litigation between The New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft, et. al., largely siding with the AI companies and strongly favoring the notion of LLM training as fair use. We asked the chefs for their thoughts.

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Roy Kaufman, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Sep 10, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Guest Post – A Year of Trends Beyond Scholarly Comms: What You Need to Know

Today’s guest bloggers posit four important trends in scholarly communications that our community should be ready to tackle.

  • By Laura Harvey, Chris Reid
  • Sep 3, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Goodbye Dolly

Dolly Parton touched so many people’s lives in so many ways. We reached out to the Chefs for their thoughts on her passing.

  • By David Crotty, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Lettie Y. Conrad, Angela Cochran, Dianndra Roberts, Roy Kaufman, Alice Meadows
  • Aug 28, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Social Media in Scholarly Communications — SSP Pulse Check Report

SSP’s latest Pulse Check survey offers a community-wide snapshot of social media in scholarly publishing as it stands today.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Jul 2, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Fellows: SSP’s 2026 Annual Meeting

Today, we offer reflections on the SSP Annual Meeting from our 2026 Fellowship cohort.

  • By Glory Akwa, Ransford Asamoah, Iliana Cosme-Brooks, Haley Dittbrenner, Rebecca Griffiths, Yamaya Jean, Chyanne Turner , Sarah Wright
  • Jun 18, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Announcing The Scholarly Kitchen’s Style Guide

Today we announce The Scholarly Kitchen’s new style guide for Chefs and guest bloggers alike.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • May 8, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications

Today’s guest post explains the new data space pilot, which will be the focus of the upcoming BISG/SSP webinar on May 12, 2026.

  • By Christina Drummond
  • Apr 17, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 1

Part 1 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem

  • By Randy Townsend, Damita Snow, Maxine Aldred
  • Apr 1, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Role of Gossip in Scholarly Publishing

Let’s say the quiet part out loud: gossip plays an important role in scholarly publishing. But is that a bad thing?

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Mar 23, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward

Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.

  • By Jonathan Woahn
  • Jan 29, 2026
  • 21 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Hot Takes on the First Quarter of 21st Century Scholarly Publishing

Todd Carpenter looks back on the past quarter century of a digital revolution in scholarly publishing.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jan 8, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen

Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 5, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Google’s Last Last Year in Search

The year in search at Google — is this the last one of these we’ll see?

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 12, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Chefs’ Selections: Best Media Enjoyed in 2025 (Part 2)

In the second of our Chef’s Selections series for 2025, we pause to look back on the best books, music, shows, and other cultural expressions we encountered in 2025.

  • By Angela Cochran, Lettie Y. Conrad, Jill O'Neill, Charlie Rapple
  • Dec 5, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Preserving Human Ingenuity for a Future Planet Ruled By Octopuses

An engineer and musician teaches an octopus to play the piano.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 14, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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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.

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