Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready
Machine readers replacing human readers can sound like a threat. Today’s post argues that our community is well prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities.
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?
Guest Post — Where Do We Go From Here? How Scientific Societies are Thinking about the Proposed OMB Funding Rule
Today’s post features conversations with society publishing leaders resisting the proposed OMB rule change for federal research funding.
Guest Post — Beyond the Prestige: Why Scientific Impact is More Than a Numbers Game
Today’s guest post introduces the YCR-index as an alternative to measuring value with raw citation counts.
Attribution, Provenance, Reference, Citation, and AI for Research Applications – Understanding the Differences
Building robust citation and attribution into generative AI systems are foundational to usage, credit and trust. We need to expect more from AI.
Guest Post — Advancing Federated Identity in the Library Ecosystem
Federated identity should be a natural fit for library access. So why isn’t it?
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.
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.
Guest Post — A Friendly Debate: Where Automation Will (And Should) Land in the Research Lifecycle
Today, we feature a friendly debate on the question: which parts of the research lifecycle should be more automated, and which require more of a human touch — and why?
Filter, Not Funnel: What Zero-click Means for Brand and Engagement
The threat of zero-click search makes organizational brand more important than ever and presents a huge opportunity.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Validation Trap: Rethinking Confidence Through Emotional Fitness
Today’s Mental Health Awareness Monday reflects on the need for validation in publishing careers, and how we might reduce unnecessary pressure on performance while preserving rigor.
The Opportunities and Perils of Discovery: STM Releases its Trends 2030
The new STM Trends 2030 was released, symbolizing a world full of opportunities but also with dangers lying just below the surface for scholarly publishing.
Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
In this post, Robert attempts to embrace a gloomy optimism as he muses on the state of publishing at scholarly societies.
AI in Peer Review: Revisiting an 8-year-old Debate
In 2018 at SSP New Directions, Neil Blair Christensen and Angela Cochran participated in an Oxford debate on the use of AI in Peer Review. Today, they revisit their main points and reflect on where they think we are today and will likely be in another 8 years.
Guest Post — Cultivating Serendipity and Protecting Night Science
As AI-driven search reduces friction in information-seeking, what happens to serendipity, frustration, and “night science”?