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Guest Post — Supporting Academic Librarians in Navigating Attacks on Intellectual Freedom

A recently announced partnership with Emerald Publishing will bring the EveryLibrary Institute’s expertise to the academic library community as the U.S. government attacks extend to institutions of higher education.

Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs

The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.

Tackling Science’s ‘Nasty Photoshop Problem’

What can be done to resolve concerns about image integrity in scientific publications?

Research Integrity, Image Manipulation, Content Provenance and the C2PA

Image integrity has been a growing issue in scholarly publishing. Todd Carpenter suggests we addreess the problem of image integrity at scale.

Guest Post — Scholarship in the Face of Powerful Opposition: Academia Needs a March of the Ents

Like Tolkien’s “Ents” marched against deforestation, scholars, scientists, and their supporters must awaken to the widespread risks of these authoritarian trends and unite their efforts in resistance.

Scholarly Publishing Based On a Zero Trust Architecture

The many trust issues in scholarly publishing might benefit from applying a zero-trust framework to the publication process.

Weathering the Storm: What Will 2025 Bring for Academia?

My glass of optimism is usually full. But my glass is leaking now, or maybe it’s broken? The realities of the new political landscape have cast its shadow on the future of academia.

The Genesis and Purpose of the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration: An Interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh

What is the Forensic Scientometrics Declaration, and how did it come about? An interview with Dr. Leslie McIntosh.

Guest Post — Evaluating China’s Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan: A New Era of Research Impact and Standards?

Here we examine the second phase of China’s Journal Excellence Action Plan, its implications, its funding framework, and what it means for Chinese scientific journals, researchers, and the broader international academic publishing community.

Guest Post: The Perennial Question of Librarian Credentialing

A new survey looks at the philosophies and practices around librarian credentialing in the United States.

Disruption As an End in Itself: eLife’s Suspension and DORA’s Response

DORA’s reaction to Clarivate’s decision to no longer fully index eLife (and, therefore, not to give it a Journal Impact Factor) seems inconsistent with both its and eLife’s public positions, and based on the mistaken belief that “disruption” is an absolute good in itself.

A Dissonance of Ideals: Openness, Copyright, and AI

Robert Harington attempts to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhanced discovery that comes with AI’s large language models (LLMs).

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Tackling Science’s ‘Nasty Photoshop Problem’

Research Integrity, Image Manipulation, Content Provenance and the C2PA

Guest Post — Scholarship in the Face of Powerful Opposition: Academia Needs a March of the Ents

Scholarly Publishing Based On a Zero Trust Architecture

Guest Post — Evaluating China’s Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan: A New Era of Research Impact and Standards?

Guest Post: The Perennial Question of Librarian Credentialing

Peer Review Week 2024: Ask the Chefs

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Hylke Koers of STM Solutions

SSP Announces Release of Individual Results for the Insights Benchmarking Compensation & Benefits Study

SSP Virtual 5K Run, Walk, and Roll Returns for Fourth-Year