Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: Multilingual Researchers’ Use of AI in Academic Writing
Generative AI has made language tools ubiquitous, but it introduces risks of homogenized texts and semantic slippage.
Guest Post — Does Peer Review Favor Familiarity Over Innovation?
Closing out Peer Review Week 2026, today’s post suggests that research novelty and capacity for innovation should be given greater priority than clarity and comprehensiveness in peer review.
Rethinking Scholarly Evaluation: Matching Rigor to Purpose
What if the systems designed to protect scientific rigor are also making it harder for new ideas to emerge? Do different scholarly contributions deserve unique forms of evaluation?
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Daniela Saderi of PREreview
Today’s Peer Review Week post is a Kitchen Essentials interview with Daniela Saderi, Executive Director of PREreview.
Guest Post — Peer Review Triage: Deciding What’s Worth Saving
Today’s guest post asks what about our current peer review system is worth saving and if we’re able to establish one that protects editorial judgment and preserves research integrity.
Ask the Chefs: Peer Review Capacity — Uncomfortable Truths and Overlooked Conversations
For Peer Review Week 2026, we asked the Chefs two questions: What is one uncomfortable truth about peer review that the scholarly publishing community doesn’t talk about enough? And, beyond recruiting more reviewers, what conversation about peer review capacity are we overlooking?
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.
Guest Post — The Unbundling of Scholarly Publishing: A Trilemma for the AI Era
The journal portfolio, platform, or membership is no longer enough, as AI transforms how research is discovered and consumed. How will your organization adapt?
New Directions Seminar: What Is a Journal in 2030?
Today, we learn what’s in store for this year’s fall seminar from SSP.
Guest Post – A Year of Trends Beyond Scholarly Comms: What You Need to Know
Today’s guest bloggers posit four important trends in scholarly communications that our community should be ready to tackle.
When Your AI Knows You Too Well: Personalization, Sycophancy, and the Risk of an Intellectual Echo Chamber in AI-assisted Research
As AI research assistants learn our preferences, they may also become better at mirroring our assumptions. Avoiding that outcome will require more than a better prompt.
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 — 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.
Guest Post — Beyond Messaging: The Structural Case for Rebranding Scholarly Publishing
Today’s guest post argues that scholarly publishers’ institutional credibility and alignment are in crisis, and suggests the time for a structural rebrand is now.
Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready
Machine readers replacing human readers can sound like a threat. Today’s post argues that our community is well prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities.