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Guest Post — Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score

Today, guest blogger Rob Johnson speaks with the creator of Research Nexus Score, and observes that metadata quality has gone from a niche concern to a sector-wide anxiety.

  • By Rob Johnson
  • Jun 11, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Scholarly AI Search Shortcomings and the Need for Better Metadata

AI scholarly search tools often miss important literature due to incomplete metadata. Better full-text-derived metadata could significantly improve discovery.

  • By Peter Webster
  • May 29, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The User Has Changed. Has Scholarly Publishing? 

For scholarly publishers, the user has changed faster than the systems designed to serve them, and the gap between the two is where most of the difficult work is happening. 

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • May 27, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Love, Death & Robots: Scholarly Edition

Today’s guest post proposes a method for identifying, measuring, and managing robotic usage of scholarly content.

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • May 7, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

The Journal Article Is Not the Job

There is more and more skepticism toward the role of publishers, a steady commoditization of publishing services, and growing fragmentation across the research ecosystem. If that is the case, the question is no longer what publishers do, but how that value is understood and extended.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Apr 15, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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

Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 2

Part 2 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.

  • By Randy Townsend, Damita Snow, Maxine Aldred
  • Apr 3, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 1)

Today’s guest blogger discusses Library Relations roles within publishing organizations and asks, what do both publishers and librarians hope for from these appointments?

  • By Gwen Evans
  • Mar 25, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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 — 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 Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn

Today’s guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won’t!) change the future of reference management tools.

  • By John Frechette
  • Jan 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details

In today’s post Alice Meadows shares some of the feedback gathered by MoreBrains and UKRI about the technical requirements of its OA policy, including thoughts from three speakers at a UKRI webinar on the topic.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — The Economics of AI in Academic Research

In the fast-moving world of AI research tools, there are many community-focused concerns that vendors should have strong opinions on and plans for, from privacy and security to sustainability and copyright. But the most misunderstood issue, in my view, is the one at the heart of it all — how AI will reshape the economics of academic research.

  • By John Frechette
  • Oct 9, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – Taxonomy of Delegation: How GAIDeT Reframes AI Transparency in Science, an Interview with Yana Suchikova

Today, we speak with Prof. Yana Suchikova about GAIDeT, the Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy, which enables researchers to disclose the use of generative AI in an honest and transparent way.

  • By Frances Pinter, Yana Suchikova
  • Sep 30, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism

In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices — protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed citizenship itself.

  • By Mike Olson
  • Aug 26, 2025
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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