Libraries, Publishers, and the Users We Both Serve
Libraries and publishers can claim agency in the AI age by once again investigating and deeply understanding how our users work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Are Libraries Prepared for the Second Digital Transformation of Distinctive Collections?
Academic and research libraries, as well as public libraries, historical societies, and other organizations, hold extensive collections of rare and unique materials, such as archival and manuscript collections. These materials form an essential part of humanity’s cultural and historical record, and they are the vital source material for many humanistic fields. I believe that a second digital transformation is at hand for distinctive collections. How can library leaders establish a strategy for their distinctive collections that is fit for purpose today?
AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs
Some readers are foxes, and some are hedgehogs. What kind of reader is AI, and how will that impact both the practice of science and the business of journal publishing?
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 — 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.
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?
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.
Before the Guardrails: Why AI Governance in Research Must Start with Purpose
The future of scholarly communication will not be determined by how powerful AI becomes, but by whether the research community remains clear about the purpose those capabilities are meant to serve and whether it can govern them together.
Guest Post — Legitimate but Not Loved: What Academic Librarians Think About AI
While it’s true that AI may be viewed as “legitimate,” it’s far from universally loved. Understanding that distinction tells us something important about how the technology may ultimately be adopted — and governed — within academia.
Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler
A conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs.
Guest Post — Proposed Uniform Guidance Revisions Would Eliminate Journal Subscriptions and APCs as Allowable Federal Grant Costs
New guidance from the US government on research funding makes publishing and journal subscription costs unallowable.