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Guest Post — Buying the Middle: Reading the Wiley Emerald Deal from the Global South

Publishing infrastructure shapes careers. It shapes what questions get asked, what research gets validated, and whose voices enter the global scholarly conversation. As the scholarly publishing market continues to consolidate, how does that impact different communities in different ways?

  • By Sonika Jha
  • Aug 6, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Ask the Community: What’s Next for the OMB Rule Change?

Today, we asked the community: What key message(s) do you want policymakers to take from the responses submitted to the OMB?

  • By Lisa Schiff, Anna Culbertson, Eric J. Rubin, Yael Fitzpatrick
  • Aug 3, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Ask the Chefs: How Are You Responding to the OMB Proposed Rule Changes for US Research Funding?

Today, we ask the Chefs how they (or their organizations) are responding to the proposed changes to how US federal research grant funds can be used.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Robert Harington, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Alice Meadows
  • Jul 7, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Love, Death & Robots: Scholarly Edition

Today’s guest post proposes a method for identifying, measuring, and managing robotic usage of scholarly content.

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • May 7, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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.

  • By Todd Toler, Angela Cochran
  • Apr 8, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 13 mins

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.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Apr 6, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Mar 27, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky

Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 2, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn

Today’s guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won’t!) change the future of reference management tools.

  • By John Frechette
  • Jan 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack?

We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Roohi Ghosh, Haseeb Irfanullah, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Dianndra Roberts, Tim Vines
  • Nov 13, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era

AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT management problem for content-rich websites across numerous industries.

  • By Kate Dohe
  • Oct 7, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — What is the Current State of Academic e-book Business Models? 

A new report from Ithaka S+R assesses the current state of scholarly monograph publishing in humanities and social sciences disciplines in order to understand how current business models are functioning for their consumer base, namely libraries and authors.

  • By Tracy Bergstrom
  • Aug 14, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — From Ivory Tower to Editorial Desk: Navigating the Leap from Academia to Scholarly Publishing

Today, guest blogger, Priyanka Gupta, shares the story of her career journey from academia to editorial leadership.

  • By Priyanka Gupta
  • Aug 6, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Matthew Kissner

Robert Harington talks to Matt Kissner, CEO of Wiley, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 2, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 21, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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