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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
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 13 mins

Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 2)

Today’s guest blogger continues the conversation about Library Relations roles and what it means to sit at the intersection of libraries and publishing.

  • By Gwen Evans
  • Mar 30, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

STM Plants a Flag About Responsible Use of Research Content in GenAI

A new STM Association paper seeks to foster a discussion about how GenAI systems can reliably incorporate scholarly research.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 19, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Societies 2030: The Community Advantage in an AI-First World

Today’s guest bloggers call for society publishers to recognize their unique role in shaping the systems researchers use to discover and evaluate knowledge.

  • By Ben Kaube, Steve Smith
  • Mar 10, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The Value Challenge in Scholarly Publishing

Today’s guest blogger identifies signals of how fractured the scholarly research ecosystem has become, and how the value publishers provide is increasingly questioned, dismissed, or overlooked by key stakeholders.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Mar 3, 2026
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Mar 2, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026!

PIDfest is back and you’re invited! Find out more in today’s post by Alice Meadows about PIDfest 2026 (October 27-29, Leiden, The Netherlands).

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 26, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens

A review of eight technology industry trend reports that offer a similar conclusion: AI is no longer a feature. It’s becoming infrastructure — and the unit of value is moving from “a better tool” to “a better system.”

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Feb 17, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World

Today’s guest blogger calls for “rehumanizing” our view on AI innovations and their impacts on our mental health and our communities.

  • By Krishna Kumar Venkitachalam
  • Feb 13, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 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

Guest Post — The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool

Today’s guest author raises the question of whether a researcher submitting an article that was significantly drafted by an LLM without clear disclosure is effectively engaging in a contemporary form of ghost authorship.

  • By Ch. Mahmood Anwar
  • Jan 22, 2026
  • 35 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 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 — AI Use: From Policies to Reality

Today’s guest blogger reflect on their panel discussion about policies and realities of AI in scholarly communications at COPE’s Publication Integrity Week event last month.

  • By Gráinne McNamara, Jeremy Ng, Elizabeth Moylan, Coco Nijhoff, Lauren Flintoft
  • Jan 13, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 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

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