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Guest Post — From an Accidental Title List to a Connected Supply Chain: My Years with KBART

Today’s guest post reflects on how implementation, multilingual discovery, and cross-industry collaboration turned a metadata file into a map of the scholarly information supply chain.

  • By Julie Zhu
  • Oct 16, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post – Do Not Go Gentle: Duke University Press Turns 100

As Duke University Press celebrates its 100th year, we take some time to reflect on our history and the important role played by university presses.

  • By Dean Smith
  • Oct 8, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Research Integrity in Scholarly Communications — SSP Pulse Check Report

Today, we take a dive into the results of SSP’s latest Pulse Check Survey, revealing how our community is grappling with research integrity and its interconnected challenges.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Oct 6, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 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 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

Goodbye Dolly

Dolly Parton touched so many people’s lives in so many ways. We reached out to the Chefs for their thoughts on her passing.

  • By David Crotty, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Lettie Y. Conrad, Angela Cochran, Dianndra Roberts, Roy Kaufman, Alice Meadows
  • Aug 28, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

New Guidance from COPE: An Interview with Natalie Ridgway

An interview with Natalie Ridgway about new guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 10, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Community: What’s Next for the OMB Rule Change?

Today, we asked the community: What key message(s) do you want policymakers to take from the responses submitted to the OMB?

  • By Lisa Schiff, Anna Culbertson, Eric J. Rubin, Yael Fitzpatrick
  • Aug 3, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 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

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

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

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 — Milestones that Matter: Celebrating a Wartime SSP Presidential Term

Today, we reprise the talk by outgoing SSP President Rebecca McLeod at last month’s SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Rebecca McLeod
  • Jun 26, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 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

Off for the US Holiday — 10,000 Musical Memories Archived

We are out of office for the US holiday. In the meantime, maybe peruse a phenomenal new live music archive….

  • By David Crotty
  • May 25, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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