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A website that provided fonts based on the handwriting of famous songwriters has been shut down. But is there actually a legal case to answer? The post Can Handwriting Be Copyrighted? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Society publishers resist the sale of their publications to bidders from the commercial world because they view the publications as a central component of the society itself. The post Why Don’t Societies Simply Sell off Their Publishing Assets? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

In this guest post about a largely overlooked aspect of diversity and inclusion,Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Director of Publishing at the Microbiology Society, looks at the biases in the workplace faced by women around maternity -- even if they can't -- or choose not to -- have children. The post Guest Post: Childfree, Childless, and Childcare –…

Sari Frances, from IEEE, discusses strategies to combat digital piracy. The post Guest Post: Technology, Law, and Education: A Three-Pronged Approach to Fight Digital Piracy appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Haggling for cheaper content today will certainly have hidden and unpleasant costs -- large and small -- down the road. The post The Race to the Bottom — Short-term Bargains versus Long-term Vitality appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

A look back at a cultural icon on the 50th anniversary of his greatest creation. The post 50 Years in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

What will we be discussing and debating on the Scholarly Kitchen five years from now? Will scholarly communications look very different? Will there be virtually no change at all? This month we asked the Chefs: What will you be writing about five years from now? The post Ask The Chefs: What Will You Be Writing…

A new kind of predator is taking advantage of unsuspecting authors. In this post, Angela Cochran discusses the forged acceptance letters received and what publishers can do to help authors avoid this costly and embarrassing pitfall. The post Paper Accepted…Unless the Letter Was Forged appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.

It's a well-known secret that women are paid less than men -- in scholarly publishing as in other sectors -- but the UK government's recent legislation requiring organizations with more than 250 employees to publish their gender pay gap provides valuable data on just how much of a gap there is... The post A Woman’s…

John Linton offers his thoughts on diversity, perspective, and the need for empathy. The post Guest Post: One LGBT Perspective on Bias in Scholarly Publishing appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.