What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing
A Cambridge workshop proposes new standard work to support provenance, attribution and metrics in scholarly communications AI tools.
Today’s post reflects on how scholarly publishing professionals balance camaraderie with market competition, and how 3 “frenemies” navigate complex industry dynamics.
While it’s true that AI may be viewed as “legitimate,” it’s far from universally loved. Understanding that distinction tells us something important about how the technology may ultimately be adopted — and governed — within academia.
Today’s post explores what happens to the scholarly content platform when AI agents become the users.
Today, we offer reflections on the SSP Annual Meeting from our 2026 Fellowship cohort.
Building robust citation and attribution into generative AI systems are foundational to usage, credit and trust. We need to expect more from AI.
A German court ruled against a mandatory article deposit requirement under Germany’s “secondary publication right” (SPR). Whatever the intentions, SPR is mainly going to contribute to the degradation of the record of science.
Today’s guest post is an urgent call for the SSP community to push back on the US government (OMB), which is poised to overhaul the concept of federal research grants.
We asked some of the attendees of the recent SSP Annual Meeting in Chula Vista, CA, to answer the question: “What are some takeaways from your experience at SSP 2026?”
Today, guest blogger Rob Johnson speaks with the creator of Research Nexus Score, and observes that metadata quality has gone from a niche concern to a sector-wide anxiety.
A conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs.
Today’s guest post asserts that AI infrastructure will let publishers truly leverage machines, while brand and community are what will keep them meaningful to humans.
Federated identity should be a natural fit for library access. So why isn’t it?
The Chefs offer their reflections on last week’s SSP Annual Meeting.
China’s publishing ambitions create genuine competitive pressures, but they also open opportunities for collaboration and highlight challenges that neither side can address alone
China is no longer simply a major contributor to global research output; it is increasingly becoming a key force shaping the future of scholarly publishing. Understanding what is actually happening, and why, is the necessary first step before considering how publishers should respond.