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Key Takeaways from the 2025 SSP Compensation and Benefits Study

A look at the data from the second year of the SSP Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Mar 27, 2026
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  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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How Can Scholarly Publishing Overcome Its ‘SDG Inertia’?

Is there an inertia slowing efforts by scholarly publishers toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 26, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 1)

Today’s guest blogger discusses Library Relations roles within publishing organizations and asks, what do both publishers and librarians hope for from these appointments?

  • By Gwen Evans
  • Mar 25, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3.

In this post, Robert attempts to embrace a gloomy optimism as he muses on the state of publishing at scholarly societies.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Role of Gossip in Scholarly Publishing

Let’s say the quiet part out loud: gossip plays an important role in scholarly publishing. But is that a bad thing?

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Mar 23, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — All the Seats at the Table: A Summary and Status Review of the NIH APC Caps Proposal

Today’s post considers the NIH proposal to implement APC funding caps, public responses it engendered, and, while we await a final decision, and shares thoughts on what may come next.

  • By Emma Wood
  • Mar 20, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

STM Plants a Flag About Responsible Use of Research Content in GenAI

A new STM Association paper seeks to foster a discussion about how GenAI systems can reliably incorporate scholarly research.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 19, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Could AI Help Fix Peer Review, or Will it Only Make Things Worse?

Today’s post asserts that peer review, which is still of vital importance to science, is clearly failing in the current age — could AI save the day?

  • By Michael A. Bruno
  • Mar 18, 2026
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do

Today’s post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.

  • By Ilyas Saliba, Lou Peck
  • Mar 17, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

AI in Peer Review: Revisiting an 8-year-old Debate

In 2018 at SSP New Directions, Neil Blair Christensen and Angela Cochran participated in an Oxford debate on the use of AI in Peer Review. Today, they revisit their main points and reflect on where they think we are today and will likely be in another 8 years.

  • By Neil Blair Christensen, Angela Cochran
  • Mar 16, 2026
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  • Time To Read: 6 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 23: Interview with SSP President Rebecca McLeod

This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast checks in with current SSP President Rebecca McLeod on her career and “wartime” tenure thus far, what she is looking forward to in 2026, and her advice for early career professionals. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press).

  • By Meredith Adinolfi
  • Mar 13, 2026
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  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — Gen Z and Academic Libraries: Reading, but Differently

Today’s guest blogger asks: How much do we read today? How do reading habits vary across generations? What should libraries and publishers do to encourage reading?

  • By Jane Jiang
  • Mar 12, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

What Publishing Leaders Say About AI When They’re Not on Panels: A Pulse on All Things AI

Today’s post explores issues facing scholarly publishers around AI — using it, layering it, competing against it, and licensing to it.

  • By Todd Toler, Angela Cochran
  • Mar 11, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

Guest Post — Societies 2030: The Community Advantage in an AI-First World

Today’s guest bloggers call for society publishers to recognize their unique role in shaping the systems researchers use to discover and evaluate knowledge.

  • By Ben Kaube, Steve Smith
  • Mar 10, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints

Today’s guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.

  • By Marco Marabelli, Robert M. Davison, Giovanni Gatti
  • Mar 9, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective

Today’s guest post asks readers to reckon with the idea that knowledge reflects power, and the global knowledge economy excludes the Global South.

  • By Nwachukwu Egbunike
  • Mar 6, 2026
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins
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