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Guest Post – Where Do We All Fit In? Reflections on Belonging, Purpose, and Progress in Scholarly Publishing

Today’s guest post by Deja Forte declares: Publishing isn’t just about systems and standards; it’s about people. Each of us has the power to build bridges between knowledge and the lives it’s meant to benefit.

  • By Deja Forte
  • Sep 10, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All

Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.

  • By Amanda Rogers, Beth Richard, Carsten Borchert, Lou Peck, Simon Holt
  • Aug 19, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — From Overhead to Essential: The FAIR Model Recognizes Research Information Services as Essential to the Research Enterprise

FAIR represents the best opportunity of the models under consideration to ensure that research information services receive appropriate recognition and sustainable funding

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Aug 11, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Carsten Buhr

Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025

Level 3 of STM’s SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Jul 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Melissa Junior

Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post: When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do

AI-enabled discovery and summarization tools seem like magic to end users, but for publishers it looks like disintermediation.

  • By Ben Kaube, Steve Smith
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Invisible by Design? Rethinking Global Indexing to Include MENA Journals

This post explores why many Middle East- and North Africa-based journals remain underrepresented in global indexing databases, how this affects both local and international knowledge flows, and what alternative pathways can bring the region into fuller view.

  • By Maryam Sayab
  • Jul 3, 2025
  • 27 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance

The deadline for the European Accessibility Act compliance is rapidly approaching. Here we discuss the challenges scholarly organizations face in achieving EAA compliance — and the strategies they’re implementing to address them. 

  • By Kasia Repeta, Allison Belan, Miguel Ramos, Damita Snow, Stacy Tucker
  • Jun 5, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Trust and Transparency in Open Access Book Publishing :  Part 2

How does the Directory of Open Access Books navigate challenges to instill trust and transparency. Part 2 of 2.

  • By Jordy Findanis, Niels Stern
  • Jun 4, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Delete the Drama: Creating A Cyberbully-free Zone in Scholarly Publishing 

It’s not always easy to recognize a cyberbully, or initially realize you’re being targeted. Here, some practices to help you to grow and protect your professional networks in ways that align with your values and vision.

  • By Randy Townsend
  • May 13, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – Bridging the Gap: Localizing Open Science for Asia’s Research Realities

While Open Science frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world.

  • By Maryam Sayab
  • Apr 22, 2025
  • 50 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data

Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Apr 21, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

New STM 2029 Trends Report Provides a Bridge to the Future

Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 3, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?

Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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