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Are Libraries Prepared for the Second Digital Transformation of Distinctive Collections?

Academic and research libraries, as well as public libraries, historical societies, and other organizations, hold extensive collections of rare and unique materials, such as archival and manuscript collections. These materials form an essential part of humanity’s cultural and historical record, and they are the vital source material for many humanistic fields. I believe that a second digital transformation is at hand for distinctive collections. How can library leaders establish a strategy for their distinctive collections that is fit for purpose today?

Mental Health Mondays: What We Haven’t Talked About

Today’s post shares a personal reflection on the importance of Suicide Prevention Month and how our community can best support colleagues who may need support.

Guest Post — Integrity First: Inside Ukraine’s Publishing Reforms

Today, we feature an interview with Tetiana Yaroshenko, Deputy Director for Research and International Affairs at the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, and Denys Kurbatov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Guest Post — Six Ways to Close the Attribution Loop in Publishing

Today’s guest bloggers present a 6-part model for explaining spikes in manuscript submissions and better informing future publishing strategies.

AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs

Some readers are foxes, and some are hedgehogs. What kind of reader is AI, and how will that impact both the practice of science and the business of journal publishing?

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: Multilingual Researchers’ Use of AI in Academic Writing

Generative AI has made language tools ubiquitous, but it introduces risks of homogenized texts and semantic slippage.

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Maternal Mental Health: It’s More than Postpartum Depression

In today’s Mental Health Monday post, Ja’Nya Jenoch, a licensed mental health counselor, professor, author, and health researcher, takes us through the history of maternal mental health, unpacks terms such as postpartum depression and maternal separation anxiety, and explores the complex systems and pressures that shape the experiences of many mothers.

Guest Post — Does Peer Review Favor Familiarity Over Innovation?

Closing out Peer Review Week 2026, today’s post suggests that research novelty and capacity for innovation should be given greater priority than clarity and comprehensiveness in peer review.

Rethinking Scholarly Evaluation: Matching Rigor to Purpose

What if the systems designed to protect scientific rigor are also making it harder for new ideas to emerge? Do different scholarly contributions deserve unique forms of evaluation?

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Daniela Saderi of PREreview

Today’s Peer Review Week post is a Kitchen Essentials interview with Daniela Saderi, Executive Director of PREreview.

Guest Post — Peer Review Triage: Deciding What’s Worth Saving

Today’s guest post asks what about our current peer review system is worth saving and if we’re able to establish one that protects editorial judgment and preserves research integrity.

Ask the Chefs: Peer Review Capacity — Uncomfortable Truths and Overlooked Conversations

For Peer Review Week 2026, we asked the Chefs two questions: What is one uncomfortable truth about peer review that the scholarly publishing community doesn’t talk about enough? And, beyond recruiting more reviewers, what conversation about peer review capacity are we overlooking?

Guest Post — A Groupthink We Don’t Talk Much About

Today’s guest post challenges our community to face tendencies toward groupthink and address the incentive structures that resist adaptation and innovation.

Ask the Chefs: AI and Copyright Licensing

The US Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in the copyright infringement litigation between The New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft, et. al., largely siding with the AI companies and strongly favoring the notion of LLM training as fair use. We asked the chefs for their thoughts.

Guest Post — The Unbundling of Scholarly Publishing: A Trilemma for the AI Era

The journal portfolio, platform, or membership is no longer enough, as AI transforms how research is discovered and consumed. How will your organization adapt?

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