Guest Post — Improving OpenAlex Data: Why Publishers Should Help Authors Improve the Scholarly Record
Today’s guest post is a call to action in support of OpenAlex and its role in author disambiguation.
Guest Post — All this AI Signal and Noise: What Deserves Action Now
Amidst the onslaught of industry and global changes, opportunities, and advancements, which signals deserve action now, which are context, and which are weather?
From Content to Trusted Knowledge: Reflections on Frankfurt Book Fair 2026
Thoughts on the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: how do we turn trusted content into useful knowledge — and help people act on it?
Guest Post — Whose Knowledge, Whose Terms? Governing Open Research in MENA, One Year On
On October 19 and 20, 2026, the Forum for Open Research in MENA (Middle East and North Africa; FORM) will hold its 5th Annual Forum entirely online. This year’s theme of resilience reflects the operating conditions facing many member organizations.
Guest Post – The Evolution of Eras: Agentic Discovery Makes Way for Agentic Consumption
Today’s guest post takes a deeper view into how researchers are currently engaging with AI and scholarly research, positing that we’re now seeing a shift from agentic discovery to consumption.
Are Libraries Prepared for the Second Digital Transformation of Distinctive Collections?
Academic and research libraries, as well as public libraries, historical societies, and other organizations, hold extensive collections of rare and unique materials, such as archival and manuscript collections. These materials form an essential part of humanity’s cultural and historical record, and they are the vital source material for many humanistic fields. I believe that a second digital transformation is at hand for distinctive collections. How can library leaders establish a strategy for their distinctive collections that is fit for purpose today?
Guest Post — Six Ways to Close the Attribution Loop in Publishing
Today’s guest bloggers present a 6-part model for explaining spikes in manuscript submissions and better informing future publishing strategies.
AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs
Some readers are foxes, and some are hedgehogs. What kind of reader is AI, and how will that impact both the practice of science and the business of journal publishing?
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Daniela Saderi of PREreview
Today’s Peer Review Week post is a Kitchen Essentials interview with Daniela Saderi, Executive Director of PREreview.
Guest Post — The Unbundling of Scholarly Publishing: A Trilemma for the AI Era
The journal portfolio, platform, or membership is no longer enough, as AI transforms how research is discovered and consumed. How will your organization adapt?
When Your AI Knows You Too Well: Personalization, Sycophancy, and the Risk of an Intellectual Echo Chamber in AI-assisted Research
As AI research assistants learn our preferences, they may also become better at mirroring our assumptions. Avoiding that outcome will require more than a better prompt.
Guest Post — The Human Layer: Why AI Makes Academic Libraries More Essential, Not Less
The opportunity presented by AI is not to remove the human layer of scholarship. It is to recognize why that layer has always mattered.
Guest Post — AI Can Find the Article. Can It Tell Which Version It Used?
In this AI era, establishing trust and validating article versions with persistent identifiers (PIDs) is more important than ever.
Guest Post — Preserving the Record, Shaping the Future: Why Diversity Matters in Digital Preservation
Today’s guest post argues that digital preservation is not just a technical problem, but a function that often ignores issues of social justice, quietly codifying existing imbalances in scholarly communication.
Guest Post — The Guild and the Gap: What One Rejection Revealed About the Cost of Credentialism
Today’s guest post asks: Do trust markers and other systematic fraud-prevention practices exclude unaffiliated authors from contributing to the scholarly record?