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Archives: Policy

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

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

Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion Revisited: An Interview with Vicky Williams of Emerald Publishing 

In this follow-up to a 2018 interview, Alice Meadows revisits the topic of DEIA with Emerald Publishing’s CEO, Vicky Williams to find out what progress has been made and where improvements are still needed — both at Emerald and within scholarly communications

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 20, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post – From Publications to Policy: How Research Is Driving Progress on the SDGs

Today’s guest bloggers share analysis on the relationship between impact and policy during Global Goals Week 2025.

  • By Nicola Jones, Katie Shamash
  • Sep 26, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — From Overhead to Essential: The FAIR Model Recognizes Research Information Services as Essential to the Research Enterprise

FAIR represents the best opportunity of the models under consideration to ensure that research information services receive appropriate recognition and sustainable funding

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Aug 11, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Well-meant Is Not Well-done:  A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance”

While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality:  legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.

  • By László Simon-Nanko
  • Jul 31, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Are AI Bots Knocking Digital Collections Offline? An Interview with Michael Weinberg

AI Bots are overwhelming server capacity and impeding access to collections. How big is the problem and what solutions exist?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jun 23, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Greetings from SSP 2025 in Baltimore

Some thoughts midway through the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 30, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — Public Access to the Endless Frontier

Vannevar Bush’s “The Endless Frontier” served as both blueprint and symbol of the American research enterprise. His writings are worth re-examination, as the country grapples (again) with the relationship between science and the American public.

  • By Alexa Pearce
  • May 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

A Tumultuous Week at the Library of Congress

Changes in Library of Congress leadership could have profound impacts on copyright and intellectual freedom.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 15, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask The Chefs — The NIH Steps on the Open Access Accelerator

The NIH has answered the lingering questions about the future of the Nelson Memo. Not only is it still in effect, it’s being accelerated by six months. We asked the Chefs for their thoughts.

  • By David Crotty, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Haseeb Irfanullah, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 5, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Trump v. Research: How We Could Turn the Threats into Opportunities

Alice Meadows and guest chef Suze Kundu look at how, by acting collectively across all stakeholder groups, we could turn the Trump administration’s threats against research into opportunities

  • By Alice Meadows, Suze Kundu
  • Apr 30, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing

These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Apr 16, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

American Psychological Association’s Stepped Approach to Managing Responsible AI: An Interview with Aaron Wood on Employee Policies, Rights Reservation, and Research Integrity

An interview with Aaron Wood, discussing the APA’s comprehensive approach to AI.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Apr 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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