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The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing is “[t]o advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking.” The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog aimed to help fulfill this mission by bringing together differing opinions, commentary, and ideas, and presenting them openly.

Opinions on the Scholarly Kitchen are those of the authors. They are not necessarily those held by the Society for Scholarly Publishing nor by their respective employers.

The Scholarly Kitchen is registered with BlogCatalog. In 2010, the Scholarly Kitchen was nominated for a Webby in the Blog – Business category.

To contact us, just send us an email.

The Society for Scholarly Publishing established the Scholarly Kitchen blog in February 2008 to:

1. Keep SSP members and interested parties aware of new developments in publishing
2. Point to research reports and projects
3. Interpret the significance of relevant research in a balanced way (or occasionally in a provocative way)
4. Suggest areas that need more input by identifying gaps in knowledge
5. Translate findings from related endeavors (publishing outside STM, online business, user trends)
6. Attract the community of STM information experts interested in these things and give them a place to contribute

Our editors are:

• Editor-in-Chief — Kent Anderson is an SSP Member, and a former Board member. In 2011, he received the SSP’s Distinguished Service Award, the organization’s highest honor. Kent has a BA in English and an MBA. He is currently CEO/Publisher for the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. Prior to this, he worked in the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Publishing Division in Product Development and International Business and as Publishing Director for the New England Journal of Medicine. He’s been a publisher, managing editor, copy editor, graphic designer, typesetter, editor, and author. He’s worked at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Medical Economics, and 3M, in addition to other odd jobs here and there (notice, this construction makes all the jobs odd). He writes mystery novels in his spare time.

• Executive Editor — Phil Davis is a Postdoc at Cornell University specializing in scientific communication. His work has focused on the dissemination of scientific information, rewards and incentives in academic publishing, and economic issues related to libraries, authors, and publishers.  He is currently working on a four-year study of readership and citation performance of open access articles. Before returning to graduate school, Phil served as a life sciences librarian at Cornell University.

Our current bloggers are:

• Rick Anderson is Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library.  He earned his B.S. and M.L.I.S. degrees at Brigham Young University, and has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno.  He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and writes an occasional op-ed column for Against the Grain entitled “In My Humble (But Correct) Opinion.” His book, Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman.  In 2005, Rick was identified by Library Journal as a “Mover & Shaker” – one of the “50 people shaping the future of libraries.”  In 2008 he was elected president of the North American Serials Interest Group, and he was named an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009-10. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and information services in higher education.

• Michael Clarke is the Executive Vice President for Product & Market Development at Silverchair Information Systems (www.silverchair.com), a technology company that develops semantic tools and publishing platforms for publishers. He is also a board member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and the Council of Science Editors. Prior to joining Silverchair, Michael founded and operated Clarke Publishing Group, a boutique consulting firm focused on the scholarly publishing industry. He has additionally worked at the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the University of Chicago Press. Michael holds a masters degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelors degree from the University of Colorado. He works very slowly on a science fiction novel about magic, fluid dynamics, and ancient Summerian lexicography.

• David Crotty is a Senior Editor with Oxford University Press’ journal publishing program. He has previously served as an Executive Editor with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, creating, acquiring, and editing new science books, creating and running new journals, and managing the Press’ online content. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did research at Caltech before moving from the bench to a science publishing house.  His deep fascination with new technology probably stems from those days at Caltech in a laboratory that developed new imaging methods.  David tries his best to balance this enthusiasm with a scientist’s skeptical eye.  Outside of the science and publishing realms, David collects and researches the world of Outsider Art, and his desperately-in-need-of-update-for-several-years website on the artists he’s known can be found here.

• Joseph J. Esposito is an independent management consultant, the “portable CEO,” providing strategic advice, operating analysis, and interim management in the area of digital media to both publishing and software companies.  Mr. Esposito’s clients are equally divided between the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. Over the course of his career, Mr. Esposito has worked for a number of companies, including positions as CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tribal Voice, and SRI Consulting, all of which he led to successful exits.  He writes extensively on digital media, and has been awarded research grants from the Hewlett, MacArthur, and Mellon Foundations. Mr. Esposito is not related to the famous “Joe Esposito,” Elvis Presley’s former road manager.

• Ann Michael, founder and principal consultant at DeltaThink, works with commercial publishers, professional societies, content aggregators, and start-ups to define and build the flexible product development environments they need to thrive in a changing world.  Ann is known for her expertise in defining customer-centered business and product strategies and managing their implementation.  She consults with and leads teams that develop products, services, and systems in publishing and digital media. She believes that successful companies manage to change: they anticipate change, cause change, and use it to motivate growth, flexibility, and innovation.

• David Smith. After he received his D.Phil in Molecular Biology from the University of York in the UK some 12 years ago, David decided to trade life as a scientist for a life in publishing. His introduction to scholarly publishing came via Vitek Tracz at Current Science Group (In-House Editor, 1999) and then BioMed Central (Web Manager, 2000). He joined CABI in 2001 (first as a Publishing Editor and then Managing Editor) before the role of Business Innovations Manager was created for him in 2006. The role involved him and his small team acting in a combined ‘skunkworks’/business analysis/internal consultancy/troubleshooting/product development role. He is now Head of Innovation for the Plantwise initiative that CABI is spearheading. He’s been involved with the SSP for a number of years, first as an attendee of the annual meeting, then as an annual meeting committee member and latterly as co-chair of the 32nd and 33rd meetings. When not involved in Scholarly Publishing, he likes to indulge in astronomy, tinkering with things, and restoring a 1960 1600 MGA that currently resides in his garage. He’s not on Facebook, but he does tweet (@drs1969).

• Timothy Vines is the managing editor of Molecular Ecology and an ecology researcher with a PhD in evolutionary ecology. Currently residing in Vancouver, he was born in the south of England, and lived in Edinburgh for eight years before moving to Vancouver in 2003. His fake Scottish accent has now faded completely. He lives with his wife, two daughters, and three chickens (for whom he has constructed a coop/bunker that keeps out the local raccoon gang). He was trained as a safari guide in Zambia, hunted for frogs in the Peruvian jungle, and “went native” in rural Romania during his PhD. He divides his little remaining free time between worrying about the zombie apocalypse and daydreaming about being the sixth member of Spinal Tap.

• Stewart Wills, online editor for Science, contributes tweets to TSK’s “Side Dishes” section. Hence, this bio is exactly 140 characters long.

• David Wojick works part time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil engineering.

Alumni of the Scholarly Kitchen include (click on their names to see their archived posts):

• Howard Ratner of Nature Publishing Group.

• Alexandra (Alix) Vance is Executive Director of GeoScienceWorld (www.geoscienceworld.org). GSW is a nonprofit, digital research collaborative founded by pre-eminent global earth science societies. Alix is a member of the Editorial Board of Learned Publishing and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Previously, Alix founded Architrave Consulting and has served as Executive Director of Reference Publishing at CQ Press/SAGE and Vice President of Business Development at Ebook Library.

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