Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026 - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.”

And the theme for Peer Review Week 2026 is....🥁

"Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed and Quality"

Read the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social announcement to learn more about this year's event and how to get involved: buff.ly/jbCP4o0

Guest Post — Moving from Identifier to Identity for Researchers - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's post calls for collective action to address the researcher identity verification gap in scholarly communications and champions STM's Researcher identity group.

Guest Post — Moving from Identifier to Identity for Researchers scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/21/g...

Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026 - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.”

JUST ANNOUNCED: the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026...🥁 “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed and Quality”. Read more via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/20/c... #PeerReview

Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026 - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.”

Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026 - The Scholarly Kitchen

Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026 - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.”

Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/20/c...

Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.

Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications - The Scholarly Kitchen

Scholarly Publishing at Scale: Balancing Growth, Trust, and Sustainability YouTube video by Editage

Hey, I did a podcast with the folks at Editage. Can't remember what I said, hopefully it's interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tftb...

@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social is your best best for keeping your finger on the pulse.

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Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.

Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/17/g...

Guest Post — Call to Action: Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy - The Scholarly Kitchen SSP's Advocacy Task Force Co-chairs encourage members to participate in this month's Pulse Check Survey on our collective advocacy activities.

Guest Post — Call to Action: Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — Call to Action: Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy - The Scholarly Kitchen SSP's Advocacy Task Force Co-chairs encourage members to participate in this month's Pulse Check Survey on our collective advocacy activities.

Guest Post — Call to Action: Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/16/g...

"Publishers can support this by enabling stronger linking between articles, data, methods, and reviews, and by investing in tools and formats that facilitate synthesis across disciplines"

As one running a data repository, I agree publishers can do a lot more in linking to other research objects!

Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.

“the preprint movement [is] a response to the failures of the open access movement…All the more reason to be mindful of our past missteps” scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/g... via @madubs.bsky.social

The Journal Article Is Not the Job - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.

The Journal Article Is Not the Job - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.

Read this fantastic @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post by @jacoates.bsky.social! I think superimposing Richard Poynder's thoughts about the OA movement with the preprint movement is superb 👌.
#Preprint #PRC #OpenAccess #PeerReview #Publishing

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My first post as a Chef, “The Journal Article Is Not the Job,” is now live on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social

The journal article is not the job; it is one mechanism for accomplishing it.

#ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

I’m pleased to share that I’ve joined @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social as a Chef.

Grateful to @dacrotty.bsky.social, @lyconrad.bsky.social, the Chefs and the team at the @scholarlypub.bsky.social for the warm welcome.

#ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

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Research generates knowledge.
Impact determines whether that knowledge ultimately shapes understanding, policy, innovation, and society.'

The Journal Article Is Not the Job - The Scholarly Kitchen 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 ques...

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Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal - The Scholarly Kitchen Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal.

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/15/w...

It's out! Perhaps one of the op-eds that has made me most nervous releasing.

Taking Richard Poynders arguments as to why OA failed, I apply these to the preprint movement.

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AI Rollout Is a People Problem: A Pulse on All Things AI, Part 2 This post explores the human decisions needed in implementing AI at organizations.

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Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.

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

Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen 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.

Guest Post — From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/g...

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Finding Balance While Navigating Career Uncertainty and Industry Changes - The Scholarly Kitchen Byron Laws and Anna Jester, members of the Mental Health Awareness and Action Community of Interest (CoIN) discuss the challenges of unemployment and the impact of industry-wide uncertainty on personal and professional well-being.

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Finding Balance While Navigating Career Uncertainty and Industry Changes - The Scholarly Kitchen

What advocacy issues are most critical to your organization right now? Help us understand where the community sees urgency & opportunity. Take the Pulse Check Poll. www.surveymonkey.com/r/pulsecheck...

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Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Finding Balance While Navigating Career Uncertainty and Industry Changes - The Scholarly Kitchen Byron Laws and Anna Jester, members of the Mental Health Awareness and Action Community of Interest (CoIN) discuss the challenges of unemployment and the impact of industry-wide uncertainty on persona...

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Finding Balance While Navigating Career Uncertainty and Industry Changes scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/13/m...

"As one publisher at a medical society learned first-hand, some of these (AI) companies were refreshingly candid about the terms of engagement. One of them literally said,“‘if you had put a login in front of your guidelines, we wouldn’t have taken them.”"

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Guest Post — The SSP Annual Meeting: Keeping the Faith in Unsettled Times - The Scholarly Kitchen Today, co-chairs for SSP's 48th Annual Meeting Planning Committee discuss what they're most excited to deliver in this year's program.

Guest Post — The SSP Annual Meeting: Keeping the Faith in Unsettled Times - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post — The SSP Annual Meeting: Keeping the Faith in Unsettled Times - The Scholarly Kitchen Today, co-chairs for SSP's 48th Annual Meeting Planning Committee discuss what they're most excited to deliver in this year's program.

Guest Post — The SSP Annual Meeting: Keeping the Faith in Unsettled Times scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/10/g...