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Guest Post — The Hidden Work of Integrating Scholarly Publishing

As scholarly publishing becomes increasingly interconnected, are we paying enough attention to its operational sustainability?

  • By Christy Jarvis
  • Nov 11, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — We Have Enough Declarations. Now What? A Critique from Inside Diamond OA

The Diamond OA community has built a declaration machine that runs in parallel with the under-resourced publishing machine it claims to serve, and the gap between them grows wider with every new communiqué.

  • By Ramazan Turgut
  • Nov 9, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Technology Providers: Our Charleston Conversation

Did you miss us at Charleston this week? Never fear, here are some highlights from our TSK panel discussion with three of our esteemed guest bloggers.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Nov 6, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — What Accessibility at Scale Actually Requires of Academic Publishers

How can publishers move past the regulatory overview for accessibility compliance and into the production reality after sitting on decades of archived content, posts, and data.

  • By Balamuraly Kanthavelou
  • Nov 3, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Freed from Thinking: Protecting Scholarly Publishing from the Slow Erosion of Human Judgment

Today’s guest blogger argues that if we want scholarly publishing to be worth anything in a generation, we must acknowledge the risks we run by relying on intelligent automation.

  • By Richard di Santo
  • Oct 30, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — When Research Integrity Fails, the Entire System Follows

Leadership in academia, publishing, funding, and across the supply chain must coordinate efforts to address research integrity. It is this collective responsibility that will restore and protect the credibility of research.

  • By Akhilesh Ayer
  • Oct 26, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Improving OpenAlex Data: Why Publishers Should Help Authors Improve the Scholarly Record

Today’s guest post is a call to action in support of OpenAlex and its role in author disambiguation.

  • By Paul Tuinenburg
  • Oct 23, 2026
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — All this AI Signal and Noise: What Deserves Action Now

Amidst the onslaught of industry and global changes, opportunities, and advancements, which signals deserve action now, which are context, and which are weather?

  • By Will Schweitzer
  • Oct 22, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

From Content to Trusted Knowledge: Reflections on Frankfurt Book Fair 2026

Thoughts on the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: how do we turn trusted content into useful knowledge — and help people act on it?

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Oct 20, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Whose Knowledge, Whose Terms? Governing Open Research in MENA, One Year On

On October 19 and 20, 2026, the Forum for Open Research in MENA (Middle East and North Africa; FORM) will hold its 5th Annual Forum entirely online. This year’s theme of resilience reflects the operating conditions facing many member organizations.

  • By Eleonora Colangelo, Andrea Chiarelli
  • Oct 19, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

TRACE Project Launches to Advance AI interoperability

The community comes together to launch TRACE, a project to improve generative AI systems’ interoperability, verifiability and usage tracking.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 7, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 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

Guest Post — Medical and Health Data Sharing Policies Need Specific Guidance: New STM Recommendations Aim to Help

STM has released voluntary recommendations to help journals and publishers clarify data sharing guidance for medical and health science researchers, where privacy, regulation, and ethics make generic policy language especially hard to apply.

  • By Matt Cannon
  • Sep 30, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Daniela Saderi of PREreview

Today’s Peer Review Week post is a Kitchen Essentials interview with Daniela Saderi, Executive Director of PREreview.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 16, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

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