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Guest Post — The Third Time is NOT the Charm: Who Will Own How AI Participates in Scholarship?

Today’s guest post warns the community that, in the AI era, we cannot keep building the pieces that lay the foundation and letting someone else own what gets built on top of it.

  • By Wendy Queen, Jonathan Woahn
  • Jul 30, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score

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.

  • By Rob Johnson
  • Jun 11, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler

A conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jun 10, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

The Rise of China’s Scholarly Publishing System Part 2: Navigating China’s Publishing Ambition — Strategic Options for International Publishers

China’s publishing ambitions create genuine competitive pressures, but they also open opportunities for collaboration and highlight challenges that neither side can address alone

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Ning Zhang, Gareth Dyke, Yanli Wang
  • Jun 4, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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?

  • By Curt Rice
  • Feb 18, 2026
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Fiesole 2025: A Step Back to Move Forward in the Era of ‘Postnormal Publishing’

A report from this year’s Fiesole Retreat: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future.

  • By Eleonora Colangelo
  • Jul 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections

Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jun 18, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Announcing the Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact

Five scholarly publishing associations partner to launch a new award recognizing innovation and impact in scholarly communications.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Feb 12, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Top Ten Challenges, Needs, and Goals of Publishers – and How AI Can Help in Digital Transformation and the Open Science Movement

As artificial intelligence begins to play an ever-bigger role in the scholarly publishing landscape, how might it help solve some of the biggest challenges facing publishers?

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 5, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — How Generative AI Could Transform Scholarly Publishing: Themes and Reflections from Interviews with Industry Leaders

A new study from Ithaka S+R explores: How will generative AI transform scholarly communication and where will change be most rapid and revolutionary?

  • By Tracy Bergstrom, Dylan Ruediger
  • Oct 30, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Silverchair Buys ScholarOne from Clarivate

Analysis from Roger Schonfeld on today’s news that Silverchair is buying ScholarOne from Clarivate, a transaction that realigns infrastructure and allows each to focus on its strengths.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 28, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Wendy Queen of Project MUSE

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Wendy Queen, Director, Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 17, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Web-scale Institutional Search: How are Vendors Responding to ODI Recommendations?

Providers of library discovery services reflect on the impact and value of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Laurie G. Arp of Lyrasis

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Laurie G. Arp of Lyrasis, whose mission is to support enduring access to the world’s shared academic, scientific and cultural heritage.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • May 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Elevating Scholarly Publishing through Collaboration: Insights from Publisherspeak US 2023 Part 2

Part two of a look back at the Publisherspeak meeting — today’s themes: metadata infrastructure and diversity in authorship and editorial processes.

  • By Ravi Venkataramani, Sowmya Mahadevan, Abhaya Ranganathan, Jason De Boer, Louise Russell, Patricia Kershaw, Richard di Santo, David Haber, Randy Townsend
  • Apr 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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