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Ask the Chefs: What Would You Have Done Differently About Open Access/Open Science if You Predicted the World as it Exists Today? Part 2

Let’s continue our “Ask the Chefs” conversation about what they might do differently with their open access strategy if they knew then what they know now.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Alison Mudditt, Steve Smith
  • Oct 2, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask the Chefs: What Would You Have Done Differently About Open Access/Open Science if You Predicted the World as it Exists Today? Part 1

Today, we “Ask the Chefs” to consider what they might do differently with their open access strategy if they knew then what they know now.

  • By Roy Kaufman, Haseeb Irfanullah, Hong Zhou, Rick Anderson
  • Oct 1, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — Integrity First: Inside Ukraine’s Publishing Reforms

Today, we feature an interview with Tetiana Yaroshenko, Deputy Director for Research and International Affairs at the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, and Denys Kurbatov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.

  • By Iryna Izarova
  • Sep 25, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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?

  • By Sonika Jha
  • Aug 6, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Another Challenge to International Education Programs

New OMB Guidance threatens the important Title VI and Fulbright-Hays international education programs. Comment period ends today, please add your voice!

  • By Alexandra F. Levy, Brendan Gillis, Sarah Weicksel
  • Jul 31, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By Wendy Queen, Jonathan Woahn
  • Jul 30, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Why Research Expectations Have Outpaced the Systems That Enabled Them (Part 2)

Today’s post is the second in a series arguing that fractures appearing across research systems are symptoms of a mismatch within today’s research ecosystem.

  • By Lisa Colledge
  • Jul 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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.

  • By Shaun Khoo, Mahesh Miikael Karnani
  • Jul 22, 2026
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 17, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Slow Food, Slow Publishing: The Beauty of Not Being First

Robert Harington reflects on our addiction to speed and advocates for slow scholarly publishing and the inherent beauty of not always being first.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 15, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

The OMB Guidance Revision Threatens All Research

The OMB proposed revision is about all research — and humanities research is just as vulnerable as STEM.

  • By Karin Wulf, Sarah Weicksel
  • Jul 10, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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.

  • By Marcel LaFlamme
  • Jul 9, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Jessica Miles
  • Jul 8, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Robert Harington, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Alice Meadows
  • Jul 7, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — The US Government’s New Guidance for Federal Grants and The Case for Scholarly Societies

Today’s guest post is an urgent call for the SSP community to push back on the US government (OMB), which is poised to overhaul the concept of federal research grants.

  • By Darla P. Henderson
  • Jun 15, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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