In this episode, librarian Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado, Denver -- who maintains a celebrated a list of predatory open access publishers and journals and blogs regularly at scholarlyoa.com -- talks about the inherent vulnerability of gold open access to scams and fraud, the potential pitfalls of article-level metrics, and where his research on the scholarly publishing environment is headed.

Scholarly Kitchen chef Alice Meadows, head of society relations at John Wiley, talks about the challenges and opportunities for scholarly and professional societies in finding new value-adds in a competitive, Internet-driven environment — and how many of the “new” sources of relevance are rooted in things that have made societies central to their members’ professional lives for many years.

Anita de Waard, vice president, Research Data Collaborations, with Elsevier, talks about the potential for moving beyond static narratives of research in PDF papers and toward new forms of scientific discovery via the semantic Web, the gains to be made from making research data more open, structured, and interconnected, and the role of scholarly publishers in a new world of linked data.

Scholarly Kitchen chef Phil Davis talks about the modern state of bibliometrics, including the opportunities and dilemmas of dealing with the vast amounts of usage, citation, and other data that can be gleaned from the Web, some of the common statistical pitfalls he's seen in published work, and where the big questions lie for the science of bibliometrics in our increasingly data-rich era.

Jason Priem, originator of the term altmetrics and co-founder of ImpactStory, talks about using tweets, bookmarks, and other measures of online influence alongside more traditional citation-based metrics of scholarly impact, the road to community acceptance, and just when and how altmetrics might stop being looked at as quite so "alt."

Scholarly Kitchen Chef David Smith talks about some of the recent news from Google's annual I/O conference -- including thoughts on Google Glass as a fashion statement, talking to your computer, and how publishers can tool for the future by taking a few pages from Google's semantic playbook.

University of Utah librarian and Scholarly Kitchen chef Rick Anderson talks about the potential impact of massive open online courses (MOOCs), both for higher education and as a new market for scholarly content.

Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media and keynote speaker at the 2013 SSP Annual Meeting, talks about how scholarly publishers need to think broadly about customer needs to thrive in a changing environment, as well as his experience with the new open-access journal PeerJ.

Susan King, a member of the CHORUS steering committee, describes the rationale and goals of this partnership between scholarly publishers and federal agencies to meet new public-access mandates.

Head Chef Kent Anderson gives some of the backstory on a series of investigative posts earlier this year, stemming from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request -- the surprisingly straightforward request process, and the reams of paper that the FOIA request spawned.