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Guest Post – A Year of Trends Beyond Scholarly Comms: What You Need to Know

Today’s guest bloggers posit four important trends in scholarly communications that our community should be ready to tackle.

  • By Laura Harvey, Chris Reid
  • Sep 3, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready

Machine readers replacing human readers can sound like a threat. Today’s post argues that our community is well prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities.

  • By Chris Reid
  • Aug 21, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — AI Can Find the Article. Can It Tell Which Version It Used?

In this AI era, establishing trust and validating article versions with persistent identifiers (PIDs) is more important than ever.

  • By Patrick Hargitt, Steve Smith
  • Aug 19, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Preserving the Record, Shaping the Future: Why Diversity Matters in Digital Preservation

Today’s guest post argues that digital preservation is not just a technical problem, but a function that often ignores issues of social justice, quietly codifying existing imbalances in scholarly communication.

  • By Gali Halevi
  • Aug 18, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

How Bangladesh Is Reducing The North-South Divide In Scholarly Publishing

Four Bangladeshi academics touch upon different aspects of academic publishing by linking them with the SDGs: accessing research; equity in co-authorship; editorial leadership; and SDG framing.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah, Sharif Ahmed Mukul, Samiya A. Selim, Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq
  • Jul 21, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Open Science 2.0: Building Understanding in an AI-Mediated World

Open Science 2.0 must focus not only on access, but also on trust, interpretation, learning, and effective communication. The challenge facing the scholarly publishing ecosystem is ensuring that what is open is also trustworthy, understandable, and genuinely useful.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke
  • Jul 14, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score

Today, guest blogger Rob Johnson speaks with the creator of Research Nexus Score, and observes that metadata quality has gone from a niche concern to a sector-wide anxiety.

  • By Rob Johnson
  • Jun 11, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler

A conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jun 10, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Advancing Federated Identity in the Library Ecosystem

Federated identity should be a natural fit for library access. So why isn’t it?

  • By Amanda Ferrante
  • Jun 8, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Scholarly AI Search Shortcomings and the Need for Better Metadata

AI scholarly search tools often miss important literature due to incomplete metadata. Better full-text-derived metadata could significantly improve discovery.

  • By Peter Webster
  • May 29, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Beyond the Article, Beyond the APC: What We Learned from 18 Months of R&D

Today’s post shares the results of an initiative designed to answer the question: what would it actually take to build a publishing model fit for the research ecosystem we have now, rather than the one we inherited?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • May 28, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The User Has Changed. Has Scholarly Publishing? 

For scholarly publishers, the user has changed faster than the systems designed to serve them, and the gap between the two is where most of the difficult work is happening. 

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • May 27, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — A Friendly Debate: Where Automation Will (And Should) Land in the Research Lifecycle

Today, we feature a friendly debate on the question: which parts of the research lifecycle should be more automated, and which require more of a human touch — and why?

  • By John Frechette, Heather Pierce-Lopez
  • May 22, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Filter, Not Funnel: What Zero-click Means for Brand and Engagement

The threat of zero-click search makes organizational brand more important than ever and presents a huge opportunity.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • May 18, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Zero-Click Readership: Are AI Overviews Changing the Way We Discover Research

Today’s post asks: If research is increasingly accessed through AI-generated summaries rather than via primary sources, then what does it mean to “engage with research” at all?

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • May 6, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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