Ask the Chefs: What Are STM Publishers Doing Right?
In the follow-up to “What Are STM Publishers Doing Wrong?” we explore what STM publishers are doing right. It’s an impressive list.
Ask The Fellows: What Did You Learn At This Year’s SSP Annual Meeting
Yesterday we heard from the Chefs. Today the SSP Fellowship Award winners tell us what THEY learned at the SSP Annual Meeting!
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?
The OMB Guidance Revision Threatens All Research
The OMB proposed revision is about all research — and humanities research is just as vulnerable as STEM.
Frenemies: A Tale of Scholarly Publishing Marketing
[…] we just know each other personally so we can just be like, “Hey, so…” Mike G.: I know you were asking me for tips on exhibiting at the London Book Fair a couple of years ago. And I was happy […]
Guest Post — When AI Helps Write Research: What Happens to Lived Experience?
[…] and cultures within higher education. I pasted selected passages into Microsoft Copilot, a popular and widely used AI system, and asked a simple question: “Summarize the key themes across these excerpts.” The resulting output was structured, coherent, and professionally written. […]
Guest Post — Restoring Trust in Science: What Would Make a Difference?
Today’s guest post asserts that trust won’t be restored by “better messaging” alone, but via better incentives, more disciplined public communication, and really listening to the people who have walked away from us.
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.”
Guest Post — All the Seats at the Table: A Summary and Status Review of the NIH APC Caps Proposal
Today’s post considers the NIH proposal to implement APC funding caps, public responses it engendered, and, while we await a final decision, and shares thoughts on what may come next.
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 […]
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 — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward
Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.
Building a Shared Culture: A Post-acquisition Interview with Krishna K. Chinnaiah and Alice Ellingham of Molecular Connections
Today, Alice Meadows talks to Krishna K. Chinnaiah and Alice Ellingham of Molecular Connections about their experience of (respectively) acquiring and being acquired
Guest Post — Supporting Academic Librarians in Navigating Attacks on Intellectual Freedom
A recently announced partnership with Emerald Publishing will bring the EveryLibrary Institute’s expertise to the academic library community as the U.S. government attacks extend to institutions of higher education.
Research Integrity, Image Manipulation, Content Provenance and the C2PA
Image integrity has been a growing issue in scholarly publishing. Todd Carpenter suggests we addreess the problem of image integrity at scale.