Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal
Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal.
Guest Post — From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing?
Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder’s post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.
Ask the Librarians: Recapping a Scholarly Kitchen Roundtable at the 2025 Charleston Library Conference
Today’s post recaps a lively roundtable conversation with library and information science experts who have been guest bloggers for TSK and active SSP participants.
AI Rollout Is a People Problem: A Pulse on All Things AI, Part 2
Faced with technological shifts not seen since the advent of the internet, Todd Toler and Angela Cochran posit that the biggest challenges for organizations building an AI strategy are human, not technology.
Guest Post — Knowledge as Civic Infrastructure: A Conversation with Nadim Sadek
Wendy Queen interviews Nadim Sadek. Nadim is a creative strategist and founder of Shimmr AI, who argues that AI can strengthen human creativity rather than replace it.
What AI Asks of Open Access
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy — open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes — matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.
Key Takeaways from the 2025 SSP Compensation and Benefits Study
A look at the data from the second year of the SSP Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study.
Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 1)
Today’s guest blogger discusses Library Relations roles within publishing organizations and asks, what do both publishers and librarians hope for from these appointments?
Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
In this post, Robert attempts to embrace a gloomy optimism as he muses on the state of publishing at scholarly societies.
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.
Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do
Today’s post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.
What Publishing Leaders Say About AI When They’re Not on Panels: A Pulse on All Things AI
Today’s post explores issues facing scholarly publishers around AI — using it, layering it, competing against it, and licensing to it.
Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective
Today’s guest post asks readers to reckon with the idea that knowledge reflects power, and the global knowledge economy excludes the Global South.
Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications in 2026 — SSP Pulse Check Report
SSP’s second Pulse Check survey results paint a picture of an industry in defensive mode — cautious, structurally stressed, but not in freefall.
Guest Post — Shaping a Sustainable Future for Academic Publishing: Our Journey so Far
Today’s guest post demonstrates how publishers can reduce their carbon footprint and be leaders in environmental sustainability.