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Why Every Publisher Needs a Library Relations Strategy

Publishers that lack a deliberate library relations strategy are making consequential decisions without important and useful community perspectives.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • May 19, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Filter, Not Funnel: What Zero-click Means for Brand and Engagement

The threat of zero-click search makes organizational brand more important than ever and presents a huge opportunity.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • May 18, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal

Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 15, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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

Responding to the Threat of Zero-Click Search and AI Summaries: How Do We Tame The Crocodile?

AI-driven zero-click search is widening the gap between visibility and usage, threatening publisher revenue, research integrity, and trust. How should we respond?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Feb 4, 2026
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — What is The ‘Right’ Way to Make Tea? Why International Marketing Needs a Local Touch

Today’s guest bloggers advocate for marketing strategy using localization, which brings cultural fluency, awareness, and authenticity to our communication with partners around the world.

  • By Lou Peck, Andrew Smith
  • Jan 12, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen and Saying Thanks to a Few Departing Chefs

Today we welcome Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen to The Scholarly Kitchen as a full time Chef and say goodbye to several long-term Chefs (and offer our thanks for all the wisdom they’ve shared with us).

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Fear, Learning, and Luddites: Opportunities to Lead the AI Revolution

Scholarly communications leaders have the opportunity to turn AI uncertainty into discovery.

  • By Samantha Green
  • Aug 5, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Six Things Your Marketing Colleagues Wish You Knew

Industry pros offer a marketing manifesto of sorts, to help our non-marketing colleagues see behind the curtain and understand how to best leverage these critical team members.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Jul 28, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Vital Voices: The Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications

The George Washington Student Journal Symposium demonstrates how student-led journals inspire young people and nurture best practices in scholarly communications.

  • By John W. Warren
  • Jul 10, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 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

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

What to Expect and How to Connect at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024

A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.

  • By Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • Sep 10, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Marketing and the Origins of Food Names

Where do common food names come from, and how does changing the name of a food reflect marketing and sales?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 9, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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