scholarly publishing

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has established the Scholarly Kitchen - a comprehensive resource and place to go to for exciting dialogue on current trends and information on what’s happening in the scholarly publishing community!

The blog, launched this spring, is primarily written by Kent Anderson, an SSP board member and Executive Director, International Business & Product Development at Massachusetts Medical Society/The New England Journal of Medicine. Other frequent contributors include Howard Ratner of the Nature

The Gutenberg-e history monographs, begun in 1999 in collaboration with the American Historical Association, is going open source. It's a great resource--but none of the predictions about how easy and cheap it would be and all the problems of scholarly publishing it would solve have come true. It's important to think (yet again!) about why. Plus a free link (for one month) to the CHE piece.

Read on for an excerpt from a recent The Chronicle of Higher Education article on taking the peer review process to blogs, featuring Professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin from UC-San Diego.

I just heard today from Bob Stein at the Institute for the Future of the Book about Ithaka's recent report, University Publishing in a Digital Age. The link I provided there is a combination of two great efforts: the Ithaka report itself, and IFBook's new CommentPress tool, which allows anyone to contribute their thoughts on the report.