Guest Post – Do Not Go Gentle: Duke University Press Turns 100
As Duke University Press celebrates its 100th year, we take some time to reflect on our history and the important role played by university presses.
Ask the Chefs: What Would You Have Done Differently About Open Access/Open Science if You Predicted the World as it Exists Today? Part 1
Today, we “Ask the Chefs” to consider what they might do differently with their open access strategy if they knew then what they know now.
Guest Post — Medical and Health Data Sharing Policies Need Specific Guidance: New STM Recommendations Aim to Help
STM has released voluntary recommendations to help journals and publishers clarify data sharing guidance for medical and health science researchers, where privacy, regulation, and ethics make generic policy language especially hard to apply.
Guest Post — Six Ways to Close the Attribution Loop in Publishing
Today’s guest bloggers present a 6-part model for explaining spikes in manuscript submissions and better informing future publishing strategies.
Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: Multilingual Researchers’ Use of AI in Academic Writing
Generative AI has made language tools ubiquitous, but it introduces risks of homogenized texts and semantic slippage.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Maternal Mental Health: It’s More than Postpartum Depression
In today’s Mental Health Monday post, Ja’Nya Jenoch, a licensed mental health counselor, professor, author, and health researcher, takes us through the history of maternal mental health, unpacks terms such as postpartum depression and maternal separation anxiety, and explores the complex systems and pressures that shape the experiences of many mothers.
Rethinking Scholarly Evaluation: Matching Rigor to Purpose
What if the systems designed to protect scientific rigor are also making it harder for new ideas to emerge? Do different scholarly contributions deserve unique forms of evaluation?
Guest Post — Peer Review Triage: Deciding What’s Worth Saving
Today’s guest post asks what about our current peer review system is worth saving and if we’re able to establish one that protects editorial judgment and preserves research integrity.
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.
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.
We Can Now Track AI-generated Content. It Doesn’t Solve the Real Problem.
Identifying AI content is now embedded in Claude models. It doesn’t solve the problem we have. It also creates others.
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.
AI Use in The Scholarly Kitchen
Some thoughts on the reader response the Scholarly Kitchen has seen regarding AI use by authors, a recent Nature News article on the efficacy of AI detection tools, and why it’s important to keep experimenting to figure out what’s ethically acceptable.
Guest Post — From Charity to Intellectual Partnership: The Global Monograph Crisis, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Open Access Through the Lens of Ukraine
Today’s post explains how Ukraine’s academic publishing sector is confronting a global monograph crisis with unexpected urgency and innovation.
Guest Post — Self-Citation Is How Fields Grow
Today’s post provides a brief analysis of self-referencing and scholarly impact through the lens of stigmergy theory