Part 1 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem
Is there an inertia slowing efforts by scholarly publishers toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Today’s post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.
Today’s guest blogger says academic librarians don’t need another class on how to use AI, but an institutional reflection on the emotional and mental cost of rushing innovations.
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.
SSP’s second Pulse Check survey results paint a picture of an industry in defensive mode — cautious, structurally stressed, but not in freefall.
Today’s guest post demonstrates how publishers can reduce their carbon footprint and be leaders in environmental sustainability.
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).
Today’s post discusses the impact and intention of DEIA advocacy and the value of taking a pause as an act of resistance and self-preservation.
Today’s guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?
Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.
Today’s guest post is the first in a two-part series — we begin by facing up to the fact that AI will not become the content windfall the way many in the publishing industry hope.
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
The Scholarly Kitchen’s 2025 Readership Survey reflects feedback from our community that will shape the future direction of our blog.
For today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tanja Niemann, Executive Director of Érudit, a Quebec-based non-profit open access publishing platform.