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.
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.
Ask the Chefs: AI and Copyright Licensing
The US Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest in the copyright infringement litigation between The New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft, et. al., largely siding with the AI companies and strongly favoring the notion of LLM training as fair use. We asked the chefs for their thoughts.
Up Close and Personal with the Trump Administration’s NIH Funding Cuts: An Interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg
Today’s interview with Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg, formerly of NIH, sheds some light on censorship at the agency and the damage it’s doing to health research.
AI Use in The Scholarly Kitchen
Some thoughts on the reader response the Scholarly Kitchen has seen regarding AI use by authors, a recent Nature News article on the efficacy of AI detection tools, and why it’s important to keep experimenting to figure out what’s ethically acceptable.
Guest Post — From Charity to Intellectual Partnership: The Global Monograph Crisis, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Open Access Through the Lens of Ukraine
Today’s post explains how Ukraine’s academic publishing sector is confronting a global monograph crisis with unexpected urgency and innovation.
Reading Between the Lines, Part 2: Cognitive Debt and the Adaptive Publisher
The central risk of AI in scholarly publishing is therefore not hallucination but cognitive debt: the gradual erosion of the human capacities that give scholarship its originality, integrity, and meaning.
Reading Between the Lines, Part 1: A Cognitive Framework for AI in Scholarly Publishing
AI is now a permanent feature of the scholarly landscape. The question is no longer whether it should be used, but how it should be understood and governed.
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?
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!
The Hidden Cost of Trust
Research integrity demands stronger safeguards in order to protect the scholarly record. But for editors, when new integrity measures are introduced, they do not replace existing tasks; they are added alongside them, compounding workloads and responsibilities.
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.
The OMB Guidance Revision Threatens All Research
The OMB proposed revision is about all research — and humanities research is just as vulnerable as STEM.
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.
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.