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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
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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

Guest Post — Sustainable Practices and UN SDG Alignment at the 2025 EASE Conference in Oslo

Today’s guest bloggers describe the efforts taken in organizing a sustainable 2025 conference of the European Association for Science Editors.

  • By Lovorka Čaja, Iva Grabarić Andonovski
  • Dec 10, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 1

In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) speaks with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Nov 19, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen and Saying Thanks to a Few Departing Chefs

Today we welcome Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen to The Scholarly Kitchen as a full time Chef and say goodbye to several long-term Chefs (and offer our thanks for all the wisdom they’ve shared with us).

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

New Directions in Scholarly Publishing: What We’re Looking Forward to This Year

What can you expect from this fall’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington, DC?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Ginny Herbert
  • Sep 12, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Maryam Sayab

Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Maryam Sayab.

  • By David Crotty, Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Sep 11, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post – ODI Survey on AI and Web-Scale Discovery

NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.

  • By Ken Varnum
  • Sep 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections

Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jun 18, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Devil is in the Details, Specifically, Titivillus, the “Medieval Demon of Typos”

Have you been visited by Titivillus, the demon of typographical errors?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 13, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Randy Townsend

Today, Randy Townsend officially joins us as a regular contributor in The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 13, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

The Scholarly Kitchen Hires a Sous Chef

Join us in welcoming Lettie Conrad as the new Deputy Editor at The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty, Lettie Y. Conrad
  • May 2, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Scholarly Communication (Part 1)

How do the problems of misinformation and disinformation intersect with the concerns of scholarly communication?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 7, 2025
  • 30 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The 2025 Scholarly Kitchen Readership Survey is Now Open

The 2025 Scholarly Kitchen readership survey is now open. We would greatly appreciate your ideas and feedback to help us remain a high-quality resource of industry news and discussion

  • By The Scholarly Kitchen Cabinet
  • Feb 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Upholding Our Legacy of DEIA

Reflections on the current moment from SSP’s Board of Directors.

  • By Randy Townsend, Rebecca McLeod
  • Feb 14, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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