Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026
Today, we share the results of a global community poll that produced the theme for Peer Review Week 2026 (14–18 September): “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed and Quality.”
The Journal Article Is Not the Job
There is more and more skepticism toward the role of publishers, a steady commoditization of publishing services, and growing fragmentation across the research ecosystem. If that is the case, the question is no longer what publishers do, but how that value is understood and extended.
Ask the Librarians: Recapping a Scholarly Kitchen Roundtable at the 2025 Charleston Library Conference
Today’s post recaps a lively roundtable conversation with library and information science experts who have been guest bloggers for TSK and active SSP participants.
What AI Asks of Open Access
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy — open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes — matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.
Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
In this post, Robert attempts to embrace a gloomy optimism as he muses on the state of publishing at scholarly societies.
Guest Post — Could AI Help Fix Peer Review, or Will it Only Make Things Worse?
Today’s post asserts that peer review, which is still of vital importance to science, is clearly failing in the current age — could AI save the day?
Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do
Today’s post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.
AI in Peer Review: Revisiting an 8-year-old Debate
In 2018 at SSP New Directions, Neil Blair Christensen and Angela Cochran participated in an Oxford debate on the use of AI in Peer Review. Today, they revisit their main points and reflect on where they think we are today and will likely be in another 8 years.
Guest Post — Societies 2030: The Community Advantage in an AI-First World
Today’s guest bloggers call for society publishers to recognize their unique role in shaping the systems researchers use to discover and evaluate knowledge.
Guest Post — The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints
Today’s guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.
Guest Post — The Value Challenge in Scholarly Publishing
Today’s guest blogger identifies signals of how fractured the scholarly research ecosystem has become, and how the value publishers provide is increasingly questioned, dismissed, or overlooked by key stakeholders.
Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026!
PIDfest is back and you’re invited! Find out more in today’s post by Alice Meadows about PIDfest 2026 (October 27-29, Leiden, The Netherlands).
Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System
Today’s guest blogger proposes the “Continuum of Consensus” as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.
Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes
Today’s guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?
From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens
A review of eight technology industry trend reports that offer a similar conclusion: AI is no longer a feature. It’s becoming infrastructure — and the unit of value is moving from “a better tool” to “a better system.”