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Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 2

Part 2 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem.

  • By Randy Townsend, Damita Snow, Maxine Aldred
  • Apr 3, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 1

Part 1 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem

  • By Randy Townsend, Damita Snow, Maxine Aldred
  • Apr 1, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

STM Plants a Flag About Responsible Use of Research Content in GenAI

A new STM Association paper seeks to foster a discussion about how GenAI systems can reliably incorporate scholarly research.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 19, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Neil Blair Christensen, Angela Cochran
  • Mar 16, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Marco Marabelli, Robert M. Davison, Giovanni Gatti
  • Mar 9, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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.”

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Feb 17, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Part 2 — Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It

Current AI disclosure guidelines are failing and driving AI use underground rather than making it transparent. In this follow-up post, I turn to the more challenging question: what publishers should do about it. 

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Feb 3, 2026
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It

Only a negligible percentage of authors seem to actually be disclosing their AI use. Here’s why I think that’s the case.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Jan 27, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool

Today’s guest author raises the question of whether a researcher submitting an article that was significantly drafted by an LLM without clear disclosure is effectively engaging in a contemporary form of ghost authorship.

  • By Ch. Mahmood Anwar
  • Jan 22, 2026
  • 35 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Three Ways to Innovate and Reimagine Publisher Value in an AI World

AI is presenting new challenges while also giving us tools to innovate in ways. The most successful publishers will be those willing to challenge the status quo.

  • By Jay Flynn
  • Dec 18, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Google’s Last Last Year in Search

The year in search at Google — is this the last one of these we’ll see?

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 12, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Five Years of GetFTR: A discussion with Librarians on Access, Integrity, and Collaboration

After five years of GetFTR, four librarians discuss how it is working in practice, its value to libraries and researchers, and what opportunities lie ahead.

  • By Heather Staines, Tracy Gardner
  • Nov 21, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Reimagining Scholarly Publishing Workflow: A High-Level Map of What Changes Next

Rather than just bolting on AI to existing publication workflows,there is a real opportunity to rethink and redesign them for human–AI collaboration. Some thoughts on what that looks like in practice.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 20, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Heather Parkin
  • Nov 11, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Revisiting: Years and Years of Creative Commons Confusion

Creative Commons licenses continue to confuse the communications community. Here we collect a decade-plus of articles looking to offer some clarity on their use.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 10, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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