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Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky

Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 2, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity

Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? We present preliminary evidence that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in papermill articles.

  • By Tim Vines, Ben Kaube, Adam Day, Kristen Ratan
  • Jan 28, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It

Only a negligible percentage of authors seem to actually be disclosing their AI use. Here’s why I think that’s the case.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Jan 27, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Courage to Be Uncertain: A New Approach to Impostor Feelings

Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the experience of “imposter syndrome” and how we might adopt a new approach to moments of uncertainty and change.

  • By Holly Koppel, Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jan 26, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn

Today’s guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won’t!) change the future of reference management tools.

  • By John Frechette
  • Jan 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion Revisited: An Interview with Vicky Williams of Emerald Publishing 

In this follow-up to a 2018 interview, Alice Meadows revisits the topic of DEIA with Emerald Publishing’s CEO, Vicky Williams to find out what progress has been made and where improvements are still needed — both at Emerald and within scholarly communications

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 20, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

2025 Readership Survey

The Scholarly Kitchen’s 2025 Readership Survey reflects feedback from our community that will shape the future direction of our blog.

  • By Alice Meadows, Dylan Burris, Simone Taylor
  • Jan 16, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details

In today’s post Alice Meadows shares some of the feedback gathered by MoreBrains and UKRI about the technical requirements of its OA policy, including thoughts from three speakers at a UKRI webinar on the topic.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — AI Use: From Policies to Reality

Today’s guest blogger reflect on their panel discussion about policies and realities of AI in scholarly communications at COPE’s Publication Integrity Week event last month.

  • By Gráinne McNamara, Jeremy Ng, Elizabeth Moylan, Coco Nijhoff, Lauren Flintoft
  • Jan 13, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — What is The ‘Right’ Way to Make Tea? Why International Marketing Needs a Local Touch

Today’s guest bloggers advocate for marketing strategy using localization, which brings cultural fluency, awareness, and authenticity to our communication with partners around the world.

  • By Lou Peck, Andrew Smith
  • Jan 12, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

AI in Scholarly Publishing — SSP Pulse Check Report

The first of SSP’s new polling initiative, Pulse Check, explores AI in scholarly publishing and set out to understand how our communities are navigating this monumental shift. 

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Jan 9, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tanja Niemann of Érudit / Une Entrevue avec Tanja Niemann d’Érudit

For today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tanja Niemann, Executive Director of Érudit, a Quebec-based non-profit open access publishing platform.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 7, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 13 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Would You Ask of Academic Publishing Santa

To close out 2025, we asked the Chefs: What would you ask for from Academic Publishing Santa?

  • By Scholarly Kitchen, Roohi Ghosh, Roy Kaufman, Randy Townsend, Tim Vines, Hong Zhou
  • Dec 23, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — DEI Under Threat: Collaborative Strategies to #DefendResearch

Today’s guest post reflects on the recent panel discussion, “Collaborative strategies to #DefendResearch and ensure academic freedom,” by speakers and organizers of the event.

  • By Terri Teleen, Sarah McKenna, George Cooper, Sara Rouhi, Josh Sendall, Mustafa B. Ozturk
  • Dec 22, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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