Two environmental researchers argue that open-access publishing has undergone major “environmental” shifts, triggering rapid and far-reaching evolutionary responses, not unlike natural ecocystems.
Robert Harington reflects on our addiction to speed and advocates for slow scholarly publishing and the inherent beauty of not always being first.
Today’s post explains how the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is responding to the proposed rule changes for US federal grants.
Today’s post explores what happens to the scholarly content platform when AI agents become the users.
Federated identity should be a natural fit for library access. So why isn’t it?
New guidance from the US government on research funding makes publishing and journal subscription costs unallowable.
The threat of zero-click search makes organizational brand more important than ever and presents a huge opportunity.
A new report suggests the NIH’s promised APC caps will reduce global OA spending. But so far, funder efforts to control publisher and author behavior have largely been ineffective. Here’s why.
Today BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press announced that they’re joining forces. Learn more in this interview with Lauren Kane, Barbara Kline Pope, and Wendy Queen
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.
Today’s post explores issues facing scholarly publishers around AI — using it, layering it, competing against it, and licensing to it.
Today’s guest bloggers assert that the future of the scholarly publishing depends on mastering science communication with the same rigor that global consumer brands apply to marketing.
Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.
Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.
Since every possible method and model of scholarly communication is imperfect, a healthy scholarly ecosystem must be pluralistic, providing space for experimentation and for a diversity of methods, models, and philosophies to coexist.