The Scholarly Kitchen https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/ What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:24:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 209325135 Guest Post — From Charity to Intellectual Partnership: The Global Monograph Crisis, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Open Access Through the Lens of Ukraine https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/26/guest-post-from-charity-to-intellectual-partnership-the-global-monograph-crisis-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-open-access-through-the-lens-of-ukraine/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/26/guest-post-from-charity-to-intellectual-partnership-the-global-monograph-crisis-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-open-access-through-the-lens-of-ukraine/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:30:07 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62626 Today's post explains how Ukraine’s academic publishing sector is confronting a global monograph crisis with unexpected urgency and innovation.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/26/guest-post-from-charity-to-intellectual-partnership-the-global-monograph-crisis-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-open-access-through-the-lens-of-ukraine/feed/ 1 62626 Guest Post — Not the Real Housewives of Scholarly Publishing https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/25/guest-post-not-the-real-housewives-of-scholarly-publishing/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/25/guest-post-not-the-real-housewives-of-scholarly-publishing/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:30:45 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62587 Today's guest bloggers reflect on an SSP panel conversation about how scholarly publishing is not only built through shared work but also through shared understanding.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/25/guest-post-not-the-real-housewives-of-scholarly-publishing/feed/ 2 62587 Guest Post — Beyond Messaging: The Structural Case for Rebranding Scholarly Publishing https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/24/guest-post-beyond-messaging-the-structural-case-for-rebranding-scholarly-publishing/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/24/guest-post-beyond-messaging-the-structural-case-for-rebranding-scholarly-publishing/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:30:38 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62585 Today's guest post argues that scholarly publishers' institutional credibility and alignment are in crisis, and suggests the time for a structural rebrand is now.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/24/guest-post-beyond-messaging-the-structural-case-for-rebranding-scholarly-publishing/feed/ 1 62585 Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/21/guest-post-your-next-reader-is-a-machine-and-we-are-ready/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/21/guest-post-your-next-reader-is-a-machine-and-we-are-ready/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:30:08 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62570 Machine readers replacing human readers can sound like a threat. Today's post argues that our community is well prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/21/guest-post-your-next-reader-is-a-machine-and-we-are-ready/feed/ 7 62570 Guest Post — Self-Citation Is How Fields Grow https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/20/guest-post-self-citation-is-how-fields-grow/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/20/guest-post-self-citation-is-how-fields-grow/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:30:25 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62558 Today's post provides a brief analysis of self-referencing and scholarly impact through the lens of stigmergy theory

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/20/guest-post-self-citation-is-how-fields-grow/feed/ 2 62558 Guest Post — AI Can Find the Article. Can It Tell Which Version It Used? https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/19/guest-post-ai-can-find-the-article-can-it-tell-which-version-it-used/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/19/guest-post-ai-can-find-the-article-can-it-tell-which-version-it-used/#respond Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:30:55 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62547 In this AI era, establishing trust and validating article versions with persistent identifiers (PIDs) is more important than ever.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/19/guest-post-ai-can-find-the-article-can-it-tell-which-version-it-used/feed/ 0 62547 Guest Post — Preserving the Record, Shaping the Future: Why Diversity Matters in Digital Preservation https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/18/guest-post-preserving-the-record-shaping-the-future-why-diversity-matters-in-digital-preservation/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/18/guest-post-preserving-the-record-shaping-the-future-why-diversity-matters-in-digital-preservation/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:30:04 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62520 Today's guest post argues that digital preservation is not just a technical problem, but a function that often ignores issues of social justice, quietly codifying existing imbalances in scholarly communication.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/18/guest-post-preserving-the-record-shaping-the-future-why-diversity-matters-in-digital-preservation/feed/ 0 62520 Guest Post — When Errors Become Consensus: Science’s Self-Correction Can No Longer Keep Up https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/17/guest-post-when-errors-become-consensus-sciences-self-correction-can-no-longer-keep-up/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/17/guest-post-when-errors-become-consensus-sciences-self-correction-can-no-longer-keep-up/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:30:55 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62530 From 19th-century beef tea to paper mills and generative AI, the challenge is no longer detection alone; it is preventing bad claims from becoming embedded knowledge.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/14/guest-post-the-guild-and-the-gap-what-one-rejection-revealed-about-the-cost-of-credentialism/feed/ 8 62510 Reading Between the Lines, Part 2: Cognitive Debt and the Adaptive Publisher https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/13/reading-between-the-lines-part-2-cognitive-debt-and-the-adaptive-publisher/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/13/reading-between-the-lines-part-2-cognitive-debt-and-the-adaptive-publisher/#respond Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:30:23 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62503 The central risk of AI in scholarly publishing is therefore not hallucination but cognitive debt: the gradual erosion of the human capacities that give scholarship its originality, integrity, and meaning.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/13/reading-between-the-lines-part-2-cognitive-debt-and-the-adaptive-publisher/feed/ 0 62503 Reading Between the Lines, Part 1: A Cognitive Framework for AI in Scholarly Publishing https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/12/reading-between-the-lines-part-1-a-cognitive-framework-for-ai-in-scholarly-publishing/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/12/reading-between-the-lines-part-1-a-cognitive-framework-for-ai-in-scholarly-publishing/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:30:43 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62496 AI is now a permanent feature of the scholarly landscape. The question is no longer whether it should be used, but how it should be understood and governed.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/12/reading-between-the-lines-part-1-a-cognitive-framework-for-ai-in-scholarly-publishing/feed/ 7 62496 What Authors Expect Now, and Why Publishing Hasn’t Kept Up: An Interview with Jennifer Fleet of Aries Systems and Christian Grubak of ChronosHub https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/11/what-authors-expect-now-and-why-publishing-hasnt-kept-up-an-interview-with-jennifer-fleet-of-aries-systems-and-christian-grubak-of-chronoshub/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/11/what-authors-expect-now-and-why-publishing-hasnt-kept-up-an-interview-with-jennifer-fleet-of-aries-systems-and-christian-grubak-of-chronoshub/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:30:37 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62486 Today Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Fleet (Aries Systems) and Christian Gruback (ChronosHub) about changing author needs and how their recently announced partnership is an effort to address them.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/11/what-authors-expect-now-and-why-publishing-hasnt-kept-up-an-interview-with-jennifer-fleet-of-aries-systems-and-christian-grubak-of-chronoshub/feed/ 5 62486 New Guidance from COPE: An Interview with Natalie Ridgway https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/10/new-guidance-from-cope-an-interview-with-natalie-ridgway/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/10/new-guidance-from-cope-an-interview-with-natalie-ridgway/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:30:56 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62480 An interview with Natalie Ridgway about new guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/10/new-guidance-from-cope-an-interview-with-natalie-ridgway/feed/ 4 62480 Guest Post — Do we need (r)evolution in peer review? https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/07/guest-post-do-we-need-revolution-in-peer-review/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/07/guest-post-do-we-need-revolution-in-peer-review/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:30:39 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62471 Whether peer review needs revolution or evolution may be the wrong question. The more pressing one is whether the academic community is prepared to let scientific ideas be published, contested, and refined in public, rather than behind closed doors.

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]]> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/07/guest-post-do-we-need-revolution-in-peer-review/feed/ 2 62471 Guest Post — Buying the Middle: Reading the Wiley Emerald Deal from the Global South https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/06/guest-post-buying-the-middle-reading-the-wiley-emerald-deal-from-the-global-south/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/06/guest-post-buying-the-middle-reading-the-wiley-emerald-deal-from-the-global-south/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:30:18 +0000 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=62465 Publishing infrastructure shapes careers. It shapes what questions get asked, what research gets validated, and whose voices enter the global scholarly conversation. As the scholarly publishing market continues to consolidate, how does that impact different communities in different ways?

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