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1 week ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | David Crotty
There are pieces of software that we each use every single day, and each seems to have some inexplicable and maddening behavior that one has to put up with. The video below acts out one of my greatest pet peeves, moving an image in Microsoft Word with the analogy of moving a piece of furniture in a room. The effort that went into what is essentially an 11-second gag is impressive, as is the result of giving an image the tiniest scooch.
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3 weeks ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | David Crotty
There’s so little one can count on being consistent these days, so perhaps it’s time to take solace in the essential physical laws of the universe. And what better combination to help with that than Adam Savage and the Muppets? Here, they attempt to interrogate gravity, but perhaps do a better job demonstrating the always reliable joy of dropping objects from a great height and watching them smash.
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3 weeks ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Todd Carpenter
As tumultuous as 2025 has begun, the STM Trends Report looking forward to 2029 provides a vision and a bridge to the future. Looking beyond the significant shifts and upheaval of today, the new report, which was released yesterday at the STM US Annual Conference in Washington, DC, shows us a path forward.
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3 weeks ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Nicola Davies
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Nicola Davies. Nicola is Senior Publisher at IOP Publishing. Open data is essential for transparency, reproducibility, and trust in research — key pillars of open science. While some funders, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in the UK, have strengthened their policies to require open data sharing, many researchers are still not making their data publicly available.
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1 month ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Roger C. Schonfeld
Scholarly monographs and other published books are among the most important resources for the humanities and adjacent fields. Unlike scholarly journals, which have become almost entirely digital-only, books have experienced a gradual, even extended, transition from print to digital distribution and demand may yet remain hybrid for some time.
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1 month ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | David Crotty
David Crotty David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer.
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1 month ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Todd Carpenter |Helen Pearson |Phil Jones
There are many aspects to research integrity, from correctly attributing authorship to the creation of, or manipulation of data, to the application of large language models in writing the text. Each presents its own problems for policing the integrity of scholarly record. In turn, each has received significant attention recently as scholarly publishers grapple with their fundamental duty, which is to provide vetted, trusted research to the world.
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1 month ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | David Crotty
Does it feel like our previously ordered universe has taken a dramatic shift to a situation where rules no longer apply? Given that so much of the research world seems to be living in a state of constant confusion and contradiction, it’s no wonder that it seems like all bets are off and anything goes. The animal kingdom offers no respite as far as I’m concerned, because apparently everything I knew about octopi is wrong — at least according to the video below and the Argonaut.
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2 months ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Angela Cochran
The next generation (Nex-Gen) of professionals that will serve as authors, reviewers, editors, and journal staff are not going to be impressed with the tools we employ to facilitate scholarly publishing. Over the last several years, my team has focused much of our strategic thinking around what the expectations and characteristics are of those younger people in the scientific workforce and, more importantly, those coming into the workforce within the next 5-10 years.
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2 months ago | 
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org | Todd Carpenter
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly integrated into scholarly research and knowledge dissemination, publishers face a critical challenge: how to best integrate their content into this new ecosystem. Currently, an increasing number of publishers are collaborating with AI system suppliers to license their content for large language model training, small model development, and retrieval-augmented generation applications.