The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen
Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.
Ask The Chefs: What Would You Ask of Academic Publishing Santa
To close out 2025, we asked the Chefs: What would you ask for from Academic Publishing Santa?
Guest Post — DEI Under Threat: Collaborative Strategies to #DefendResearch
Today’s guest post reflects on the recent panel discussion, “Collaborative strategies to #DefendResearch and ensure academic freedom,” by speakers and organizers of the event.
Guest Post — How AI is Transforming Platform Strategy: Beyond the Hype
Today’s guest blogger challenges us to look beyond the hype of AI, and embrace AI agents handling platform grunt work, validation, and parallel processing that expands what we can accomplish with immediate and substantial productivity gains.
Guest Post — Three Ways to Innovate and Reimagine Publisher Value in an AI World
AI is presenting new challenges while also giving us tools to innovate in ways. The most successful publishers will be those willing to challenge the status quo.
Why We Must Work Together to Harden the Scholarly Supply Chain
At the STM innovation and Integrity days in London last week, it’s clear that research integrity has become an increasingly pressing issue. Many publishers are reporting significant increases in submissions of questionable legitimacy. perhaps now is the time for a new alliance between publishers, funders, institutions and researchers to protect the integrity of the scholarly record, before it’s too late.
Celebrating Public-Good Curators: An Interview with Tracey Brown and Camille Gamboa
Who are public-good curators and how can they help improve public trust in science? Learn more in this interview with Tracey Brown (Sense about Science) and Camille Gamboa (Sage) about their recently co-published booklet on the topic.
In the Messy Middle: Observations from the Front Line at the UKSG Forum
The UKSG Forum is “an entire 2-3 day conference stripped back to bare essentials and completed in just one day”. Here are the key takeaways — changing priorities, from global to local; why it is getting harder to keep up and keep order; and the overriding importance of trusted relationships.
Google’s Last Last Year in Search
The year in search at Google — is this the last one of these we’ll see?
SEO Still Matters: Building Blocks for the Future of Content Discoverability
As the search and user behavior landscapes undergo dramatic evolutions, marketers and others are left to wonder what SEO means for publishers now.
Guest Post — Funding Research Services: How Libraries are Exploring Cost Recovery Models
Today’s guest bloggers share results of an exploratory survey of funding research services, offering a snapshot of a library community in transition.
Chefs’ Selections: Best Media Enjoyed in 2025 (Part 2)
In the second of our Chef’s Selections series for 2025, we pause to look back on the best books, music, shows, and other cultural expressions we encountered in 2025.
Guest Post — Building an Intelligence Infrastructure for Science
Today’s guest post spotlights a new scientific intelligence engine inspired by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolution and the mission to give humanity the ability to see its own progress while it unfolds.
Guest Post — What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored?
Today’s guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.
Guest Post — From Cloud to Carbon: Exploring the Digital Carbon Footprint of Knowledge
Today’s guest post summarizes the discussion in the recent EASE / STM / webinar, exploring the digital carbon footprint of scholarly publishing.