Guest Post — AI Use: From Policies to Reality
Today’s guest blogger reflect on their panel discussion about policies and realities of AI in scholarly communications at COPE’s Publication Integrity Week event last month.
Guest Post — What is The ‘Right’ Way to Make Tea? Why International Marketing Needs a Local Touch
Today’s guest bloggers advocate for marketing strategy using localization, which brings cultural fluency, awareness, and authenticity to our communication with partners around the world.
The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen
Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.
Guest Post — DEI Under Threat: Collaborative Strategies to #DefendResearch
Today’s guest post reflects on the recent panel discussion, “Collaborative strategies to #DefendResearch and ensure academic freedom,” by speakers and organizers of the event.
Guest Post: Academic Publishing Is Not Fit for the Future – If We Don’t Act Now, The Vital Role Research Plays in Society Is at Risk
Academic publishing ia reaching a breaking point. Unless we redesign it, we risk stalling the very progress we seek – with consequences impacting research, education and public trust in academia.
Guest Post — Sustainable Practices and UN SDG Alignment at the 2025 EASE Conference in Oslo
Today’s guest bloggers describe the efforts taken in organizing a sustainable 2025 conference of the European Association for Science Editors.
The Global Transition Has Already Happened – It’s Just Not the One You Expected (Part 1 of 2)
The global scholarly publishing ecosystem has already transitioned — not to open access, but to a diverse hybrid system. So much the better.
Impact Metrics on Publisher Platforms: Who Shows What Where?
A review of 12 major publishers finds that they display an average of 6 journal-level impact metrics on their platforms. The Journal Impact Factor is the only metric displayed on all 12.
Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, and sustainability?
Guest Post — How Changes to ADA Title II Impact Libraries, and What We Can Do to Respond, Part 2
Today’s guest blogger argues librarians have been advocates for accessibility of digital content long before ADA Title II — and they have a role in responding to the latest regulatory updates.
Guest Post — Replacing Public Doubt with Public Confidence: Experiments in Building Trust at Science
Today’s guest post is by Meagan Phelan of AAAS, who asks: If more research is openly available than ever before, and open is framed as a way to build trust, why isn’t public trust in science at an all-time high?
Guest Post — Reporting from LIBER 2025: Policy Influence, Library Agency, and Researcher-First Open Access Moves
Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the the LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne (2–4 July).
Guest Post — Manifesto Time: Do You Need a Publishing Manifesto?
Does your publishing organization need a manifesto? Writing a manifesto for your organization can be a great exercise for team building and planning, and a way to ignite action.
Guest Post – Taxonomy of Delegation: How GAIDeT Reframes AI Transparency in Science, an Interview with Yana Suchikova
Today, we speak with Prof. Yana Suchikova about GAIDeT, the Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy, which enables researchers to disclose the use of generative AI in an honest and transparent way.
Guest Post – From Publications to Policy: How Research Is Driving Progress on the SDGs
Today’s guest bloggers share analysis on the relationship between impact and policy during Global Goals Week 2025.