Guest Post — There’s an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports
Today’s guest bloggers spotlight a gap in traditional usage reporting, third-party AI usage, and recommend steps needed to recover missing usage data.
Responding to the Threat of Zero-Click Search and AI Summaries: How Do We Tame The Crocodile?
AI-driven zero-click search is widening the gap between visibility and usage, threatening publisher revenue, research integrity, and trust. How should we respond?
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.
Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … At Least Not How You’re Hoping It Will
Today’s guest post is the first in a two-part series — we begin by facing up to the fact that AI will not become the content windfall the way many in the publishing industry hope.
Guest Post — Open Scholarship is Poised to Create More Value than Ever, but Are We Ready?
Today’s guest blogger observes how advances in technology create unprecedented opportunities in open scholarship, and asks: Can incentive structures keep up?
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.
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.
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 — 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.
Guest Post — Five Years of GetFTR: A discussion with Librarians on Access, Integrity, and Collaboration
After five years of GetFTR, four librarians discuss how it is working in practice, its value to libraries and researchers, and what opportunities lie ahead.
Reimagining Scholarly Publishing Workflow: A High-Level Map of What Changes Next
Rather than just bolting on AI to existing publication workflows,there is a real opportunity to rethink and redesign them for human–AI collaboration. Some thoughts on what that looks like in practice.
Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack?
We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?
Three Years After the Launch of ChatGPT, Do We Know Where This Is Heading?
Nearly three years after ChatGPT’s debut, generative AI continues to reshape scholarly publishing. The sector has moved from experimentation toward integration, with advances in ethical writing tools, AI-driven discovery, summarization, and automated peer review. While workflows are becoming more efficient, the long-term impact on research creation and evaluation remains uncertain.