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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
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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
  • 25 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post:  Eight Hypotheses Why Librarians Don’t Like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

AI-assisted search is here, and librarians need to have an honest discussion about how to integrate this new technology into library services. This post explores the parallels to the introduction of discovery layers and how to overcome some of the discomfort librarians might have with retrieval-augmented generation.

  • By Frauke Birkhoff
  • May 8, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?

It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.

  • By Stephanie Decker
  • Apr 15, 2025
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Mike Olson
  • Mar 25, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect

Will the next generation of professions be impressed with the content platforms and workflow tools we currently have? Angela Cochran imagines a world where we meet the challenge of modernized systems.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Feb 27, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post:  Reflections from The Munin Conference Part One – Bibliodiversity

This is the first article of three in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at the Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today’s focus is bibliodiversity.

  • By Mark Huskisson
  • Jan 21, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Our Algorithmically-driven Homogenized Future

Why does everything on the internet look and feel the same? What role are algorithms playing in driving cultural stagnation (and what might it mean for scholarly discovery)?

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 23, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Navigating the Digital Frontier: How Emerging Tech Trends Are Shaping Scholarly Publishing

A focus on four rising technology trends and the challenges and opportunities they might bring to scholarly communications.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Dec 20, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Green Open Access – Free for Authors But at a Cost for Readers

Pursuit of Green open access rather than Gold not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 12, 2024
  • 72 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Wiley Leans into AI. The Community Should Lean with Them.

An interview with Wiley SVP Josh Jarrett about their work improving publishing processes with AI and licensing content for AI applications.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 31, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

The Chicken or Egg Problem — Should Publishers Mandate Graphical Abstracts or Let Authors Lead the Way?

If we want to broaden the audience base for research outputs, then authors need to explore more visual formats for readers to consume. The graphical abstract is one such format.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Oct 10, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Richard Jefferson of The Lens

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Richard Jefferson, founder of The Lens, which enables discovery and analysis for scholarly works, patents, and patent sequences.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 13 mins

Web-scale Institutional Search: How are Vendors Responding to ODI Recommendations?

Providers of library discovery services reflect on the impact and value of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Putting Research Publications to Work in Tackling the SDGs — 3 Challenges to Publishers

Research publications contain the answers to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. But to realize that potential, more people need to find, understand and act on them.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 10, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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