The Scholarly Kitchen

Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy — SSP Pulse Check Report

Melanie Dolechek — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:30:20 +0000

This month’s Pulse Check survey focuses on our community's views on advocacy, industry priorities, and challenges of engaging with policymakers and the public.

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Guest Post — SSP Annual Meeting: The Highlights are Coming

Marianne Calilhanna, David Turner, Jennifer Regala, Michelle Urberg — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:30:45 +0000

Today, members of SSP's 48th Annual Meeting Program Committee share reflections for all attendees -- including those joining the Highlights Webinar on June 17, 2026.

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Guest Post – When Thinking Is Outsourced: A Warning from a Scientist Trained Before AI

Mohamed Mannaa — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:30:55 +0000

Today's guest post sounds an alarm about the use of AI in research and warns that no amount of computational efficiency can compensate for the loss of our capacity for human thought.

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Guest Post — Develop to Delegate: How Investing in Early-Career Professionals Strengthens Organizations

Kelly Harvey — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:30:05 +0000

Today's guest post advocates for investing in the development of early-career professionals to foster a healthy pipeline of emerging talent in scholarly publishing.

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Guest Post — Quality Over Quantity: Why Scholarly Publishing Needs Stronger Front-End Gatekeeping to Build Trust and Long-Term Value

Claudia Taubenheim, Sarah Hands — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:30:34 +0000

Today's guest bloggers call publishers to lean into, rather than away from, their liability for science integrity and rigor.

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Evidence Isn’t Just for Research

Lettie Y. Conrad — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:30:36 +0000

This Friday, we offer a humorous take on the importance of empirical evidence in this era of fraud and mis/disinformation.

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The Opportunities and Perils of Discovery: STM Releases its Trends 2030

Todd A Carpenter — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:30:20 +0000

The new STM Trends 2030 was released, symbolizing a world full of opportunities but also with dangers lying just below the surface for scholarly publishing.

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Academic Publishing in the Age of AI: From Content to Trust

Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:30:03 +0000

AI in science should not be viewed merely as a productivity tool layered onto existing workflows. It represents a structural shift in how knowledge moves through society, and therefore in how scientific authority is established and maintained.

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Guest Post — Moving from Identifier to Identity for Researchers

Tim Lloyd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:30:53 +0000

Today's post calls for collective action to address the researcher identity verification gap in scholarly communications and champions STM's Researcher identity group.

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Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026

Maryam Sayab, Roohi Ghosh, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke, Mingfang Lu — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:30:21 +0000

Today, we share the results of a global community poll that produced the theme for Peer Review Week 2026 (14–18 September): “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed and Quality.”

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Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications

Christina Drummond — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:30:07 +0000

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.

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Guest Post — Call to Action: Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy

Tim Lloyd, Beth Craanen — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:30:44 +0000

SSP's Advocacy Task Force Co-chairs encourage members to participate in this month's Pulse Check Survey on our collective advocacy activities.

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The Journal Article Is Not the Job

Ashutosh Ghildiyal — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:31:08 +0000

There is more and more skepticism toward the role of publishers, a steady commoditization of publishing services, and growing fragmentation across the research ecosystem. If that is the case, the question is no longer what publishers do, but how that value is understood and extended.

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Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal

David Crotty — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:30:57 +0000

Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal.

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Guest Post — From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing?

Jonny Coates — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:30:08 +0000

Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder's post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.

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