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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Melissa Junior

Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention

Guest blogger, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, asks: Is AI for us, or are we for AI? In the all-important context of peer review, can we leverage AI to amplify human thought rather than replace us?

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jul 17, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Better Together: ORCID and Other Researcher Identifiers

This post is based on a recently-published white paper by Alice Meadows and Josh Brown of MoreBrains Cooperative, in which they discuss why ORCID iDs work best in combination with other researcher identifiers — it’s ORCID and, not ORCID or…

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jul 16, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Confused and Ambivalent: Scholarly Authors and Creative Commons Licenses

An AAAS survey reveals authors’ concerns and confusion regarding open licensing of their work.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 15, 2025
  • 30 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem

Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 14, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Best Optical Illusions of 2024

A good crop of optical illusions win the 2024 contest from the Neural Correlate Society.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 11, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Vital Voices: The Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications

The George Washington Student Journal Symposium demonstrates how student-led journals inspire young people and nurture best practices in scholarly communications.

  • By John W. Warren
  • Jul 10, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Trust and Integrity: A Research Imperative

Libraries and publishers represent the interests of thousands of authors, readers, scientists, researchers, students, and lifelong learners. Today, we stand united to face the mounting risks to public trust and the social benefit that research delivers. 

  • By Teresa Anderson, Peter Berkery, Melanie Dolechek, Andrew K. Pace, Caroline Sutton
  • Jul 9, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point

Christos Petrou examines the rapid growth in publication volume coming from China, and how that is impacting the publishing industry.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Jul 8, 2025
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do

AI-enabled discovery and summarization tools seem like magic to end users, but for publishers it looks like disintermediation.

  • By Ben Kaube, Steve Smith
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Happy 4th of July — Surf’s Up!

Celebrating American Independence Day with a truly great American art form.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 4, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Invisible by Design? Rethinking Global Indexing to Include MENA Journals

This post explores why many Middle East- and North Africa-based journals remain underrepresented in global indexing databases, how this affects both local and international knowledge flows, and what alternative pathways can bring the region into fuller view.

  • By Maryam Sayab
  • Jul 3, 2025
  • 27 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Matthew Kissner

Robert Harington talks to Matt Kissner, CEO of Wiley, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 2, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Fiesole 2025: A Step Back to Move Forward in the Era of ‘Postnormal Publishing’

A report from this year’s Fiesole Retreat: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future.

  • By Eleonora Colangelo
  • Jul 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask The Chefs — New Court Decisions Issued in Cases Addressing AI Training and Copyright

We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on two important court decisions on the legality of using copyrighted materials for AI training.

  • By Roy Kaufman, Rick Anderson, Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 30, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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