Guest Post — Beyond Messaging: The Structural Case for Rebranding Scholarly Publishing
Today’s guest post argues that scholarly publishers’ institutional credibility and alignment are in crisis, and suggests the time for a structural rebrand is now.
Guest Post — Buying the Middle: Reading the Wiley Emerald Deal from the Global South
Publishing infrastructure shapes careers. It shapes what questions get asked, what research gets validated, and whose voices enter the global scholarly conversation. As the scholarly publishing market continues to consolidate, how does that impact different communities in different ways?
Guest Post — The Third Time is NOT the Charm: Who Will Own How AI Participates in Scholarship?
Today’s guest post warns the community that, in the AI era, we cannot keep building the pieces that lay the foundation and letting someone else own what gets built on top of it.
Guest Post — What Does Commercial Adoption Mean for the Preprint Movement?
Today’s guest bloggers suggest that the involvement of commercial publishers is not unequivocally bad for preprints, and provide some optimism about open access as a whole.
The Latest Merger: Annual Reviews Acquires Underline Science
Annual Reviews have been on a steady growth trajectory these last few years, so we sat down with Richard Gallagher to learn more about their latest acquisition.
Guest Post — Why Research Libraries Oppose the OMB Revisions to the Uniform Guidance
Today’s post explains how the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is responding to the proposed rule changes for US federal grants.
Guest Post — Where Do We Go From Here? How Scientific Societies are Thinking about the Proposed OMB Funding Rule
Today’s post features conversations with society publishing leaders resisting the proposed OMB rule change for federal research funding.
Ask the Chefs: How Are You Responding to the OMB Proposed Rule Changes for US Research Funding?
Today, we ask the Chefs how they (or their organizations) are responding to the proposed changes to how US federal research grant funds can be used.
Seven Questions about CC Signals
With CC Signals, Creative Commons wants to help authors put rules on use of their licensed content for AI training. The problem is, one of the licenses already permits free and unlimited reuse of that content, for any and all purposes. And the licenses are irrevocable.
Stronger Together: BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press Join Forces
Today BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press announced that they’re joining forces. Learn more in this interview with Lauren Kane, Barbara Kline Pope, and Wendy Queen
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.
Guest Post — The Value Challenge in Scholarly Publishing
Today’s guest blogger identifies signals of how fractured the scholarly research ecosystem has become, and how the value publishers provide is increasingly questioned, dismissed, or overlooked by key stakeholders.
Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications in 2026 — SSP Pulse Check Report
SSP’s second Pulse Check survey results paint a picture of an industry in defensive mode — cautious, structurally stressed, but not in freefall.
So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_
How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?
Guest Post — Three Ways to Innovate and Reimagine Publisher Value in an AI World
AI is presenting new challenges while also giving us tools to innovate in ways. The most successful publishers will be those willing to challenge the status quo.