Guest Post — The Human Layer: Why AI Makes Academic Libraries More Essential, Not Less
The opportunity presented by AI is not to remove the human layer of scholarship. It is to recognize why that layer has always mattered.
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!
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.
Guest Post — Why Research Expectations Have Outpaced the Systems That Enabled Them (Part 1)
Today’s guest blogger questions the operating model around scholarly research and asks why these capabilities are so difficult to sustain at scale.
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.
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?
Ask the Librarians: Recapping a Scholarly Kitchen Roundtable at the 2025 Charleston Library Conference
Today’s post recaps a lively roundtable conversation with library and information science experts who have been guest bloggers for TSK and active SSP participants.
Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do
Today’s post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 23: Interview with SSP President Rebecca McLeod
This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast checks in with current SSP President Rebecca McLeod on her career and “wartime” tenure thus far, what she is looking forward to in 2026, and her advice for early career professionals. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press).
Guest Post — Gen Z and Academic Libraries: Reading, but Differently
Today’s guest blogger asks: How much do we read today? How do reading habits vary across generations? What should libraries and publishers do to encourage reading?
Guest Post — Cultivating Serendipity and Protecting Night Science
As AI-driven search reduces friction in information-seeking, what happens to serendipity, frustration, and “night science”?
Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System
Today’s guest blogger proposes the “Continuum of Consensus” as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.
Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World
Today’s guest blogger calls for “rehumanizing” our view on AI innovations and their impacts on our mental health and our communities.
Guest Post — Why Science Communication Must be the Next Competitive Edge for Scholarly Publishers
Today’s guest bloggers assert that the future of the scholarly publishing depends on mastering science communication with the same rigor that global consumer brands apply to marketing.
Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky
Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.