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Social Media in Scholarly Communications — SSP Pulse Check Report

SSP’s latest Pulse Check survey offers a community-wide snapshot of social media in scholarly publishing as it stands today.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Jul 2, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 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

Mental Health Awareness Week: Revisiting Mental Health Mondays

To honor the UK’s Mental Health Week, we take a look back at the Mental Health Monday posts in The Scholarly Kitchen with calls to action, practical tips, and tools for “taking ACTION.”

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • May 11, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_

How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 11, 2026
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Discouraged, but not Dissuaded: The 2025 SSP President’s Address

Heather Staines Presidential Address from the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By Heather Staines
  • Jun 2, 2025
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Trump v. Research: How We Could Turn the Threats into Opportunities

Alice Meadows and guest chef Suze Kundu look at how, by acting collectively across all stakeholder groups, we could turn the Trump administration’s threats against research into opportunities

  • By Alice Meadows, Suze Kundu
  • Apr 30, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 21: SSP President Interview with Heather Staines

This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast welcomes current SSP President Heather Staines to chat about her career trajectory, plans and goals for her presidency, and advice for Early Career Professionals.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen, Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Feb 28, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect

Will the next generation of professions be impressed with the content platforms and workflow tools we currently have? Angela Cochran imagines a world where we meet the challenge of modernized systems.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Feb 27, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Revisiting Mental Health Mondays 

A look back, highlighting posts with helpful information on supporting workplace mental wellbeing

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • Feb 24, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Building a Voluntary Contribution Transaction System

Here I propose a framework for a Voluntary Contribution Transaction system to recognize the voluntary contributions in the scholarly workflow and to give tangible benefits to the volunteers.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Oct 9, 2023
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The ORCID US Consortium at Five: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and Why?

The ORCID US consortium, managed by Lyrasis, is five years old in 2023 – hear about their progress so far and plans for the future in Alice Meadows’ interview with their PID Program Leader, Sheila Raybun

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 21, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — Street Books: A Non-profit Mobile Library Serving the Houseless Residents of Portland

An interview with Laura Moulton, founder of Street Books, a mobile library which serves Portland’s houseless community. SSP annual meeting attendees are invited to bring paperback books to donate to Street Books.

  • By Madelyn Stone
  • May 5, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

SXSW Interactive: Slow Down To Speed Up

Back to SXSW this year! Hear about the conference, the speakers, and the themes. Tell us what resonates with you the most!

  • By Ann Michael
  • Mar 22, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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