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2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

Catching up with the ongoing consolidation of the journals market — what has happened in the two years since this was last examined? And how does the market look if you add in a large number of relatively newly launched journals?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All

Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.

  • By Amanda Rogers, Beth Richard, Carsten Borchert, Lou Peck, Simon Holt
  • Aug 19, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — From Overhead to Essential: The FAIR Model Recognizes Research Information Services as Essential to the Research Enterprise

FAIR represents the best opportunity of the models under consideration to ensure that research information services receive appropriate recognition and sustainable funding

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Aug 11, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed

A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.

  • By Leslie D. McIntosh, Will White
  • Aug 4, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Well-meant Is Not Well-done:  A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance”

While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality:  legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.

  • By László Simon-Nanko
  • Jul 31, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Confused and Ambivalent: Scholarly Authors and Creative Commons Licenses

An AAAS survey reveals authors’ concerns and confusion regarding open licensing of their work.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 15, 2025
  • 30 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Trust and Integrity: A Research Imperative

Libraries and publishers represent the interests of thousands of authors, readers, scientists, researchers, students, and lifelong learners. Today, we stand united to face the mounting risks to public trust and the social benefit that research delivers. 

  • By Teresa Anderson, Peter Berkery, Melanie Dolechek, Andrew K. Pace, Caroline Sutton
  • Jul 9, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — Invisible by Design? Rethinking Global Indexing to Include MENA Journals

This post explores why many Middle East- and North Africa-based journals remain underrepresented in global indexing databases, how this affects both local and international knowledge flows, and what alternative pathways can bring the region into fuller view.

  • By Maryam Sayab
  • Jul 3, 2025
  • 27 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Matthew Kissner

Robert Harington talks to Matt Kissner, CEO of Wiley, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 2, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.”

Grieving my father’s death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jun 26, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Are AI Bots Knocking Digital Collections Offline? An Interview with Michael Weinberg

AI Bots are overwhelming server capacity and impeding access to collections. How big is the problem and what solutions exist?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jun 23, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post: Will JAG’s New Models Give Libraries and Publishers a Better Seat at the Federal Funding Table?

As US federal policy on indirect costs remains uncertain, the Joint Associations Group seeks input on two proposed models. Learn about the models and implications for library funding and publishers.

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Jun 16, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Discouraged, but not Dissuaded: The 2025 SSP President’s Address

Heather Staines Presidential Address from the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By Heather Staines
  • Jun 2, 2025
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Greetings from SSP 2025 in Baltimore

Some thoughts midway through the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 30, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — Public Access to the Endless Frontier

Vannevar Bush’s “The Endless Frontier” served as both blueprint and symbol of the American research enterprise. His writings are worth re-examination, as the country grapples (again) with the relationship between science and the American public.

  • By Alexa Pearce
  • May 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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