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Beyond the Article, Beyond the APC: What We Learned from 18 Months of R&D

Today’s post shares the results of an initiative designed to answer the question: what would it actually take to build a publishing model fit for the research ecosystem we have now, rather than the one we inherited?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • May 28, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Restoring Trust in Science: What Would Make a Difference?

Today’s guest post asserts that trust won’t be restored by “better messaging” alone, but via better incentives, more disciplined public communication, and really listening to the people who have walked away from us.

  • By Steve Smith
  • May 12, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Stronger Together: BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press Join Forces

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

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 5, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — When Thinking Is Outsourced: A Warning from a Scientist Trained Before AI

Today’s guest post sounds an alarm about the use of AI in research and warns that no amount of computational efficiency can compensate for the loss of our capacity for human thought.

  • By Mohamed Mannaa
  • Apr 29, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 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

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.

  • By Ilyas Saliba, Lou Peck
  • Mar 17, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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

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.

  • By Liz Martin
  • Feb 27, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • 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

Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System

Today’s guest blogger proposes the “Continuum of Consensus” as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.

  • By Ch. Mahmood Anwar
  • Feb 19, 2026
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 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

Guest Post — Putting the “U” in FAIR

Today’s guest blogger calls for adding “understandable” to the FAIR data principles, to ensure we do not surrender human knowledge in our rush for automation.

  • By Jeff Lang
  • Feb 10, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 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

AI in Scholarly Publishing — SSP Pulse Check Report

The first of SSP’s new polling initiative, Pulse Check, explores AI in scholarly publishing and set out to understand how our communities are navigating this monumental shift. 

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Jan 9, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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