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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
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Fiesole 2025: A Step Back to Move Forward in the Era of ‘Postnormal Publishing’

A report from this year’s Fiesole Retreat: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future.

  • By Eleonora Colangelo
  • Jul 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask The Chefs — New Court Decisions Issued in Cases Addressing AI Training and Copyright

We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on two important court decisions on the legality of using copyrighted materials for AI training.

  • By Roy Kaufman, Rick Anderson, Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 30, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Are AI Bots Knocking Digital Collections Offline? An Interview with Michael Weinberg

AI Bots are overwhelming server capacity and impeding access to collections. How big is the problem and what solutions exist?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jun 23, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report

NISO issues a report on workshops looking to improve the efficiency of working with AI systems in scholarly publishing

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 12, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: How Changes to ADA Title II Impact Libraries – And What We Can Do to Respond

Legal scholar and research librarian Latia Ward explains why changes to ADA Title II matter to all libraries — and offers recommendations.

  • By Latia Ward
  • Jun 11, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 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

Discouraged, but not Dissuaded: The 2025 SSP President’s Address

Heather Staines Presidential Address from the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By Heather Staines
  • Jun 2, 2025
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Strategies to Improve Open Science Monitoring: Lessons from France’s OSM initiative

The French Open Science Monitor Initiative shows a path toward improving recognition of data sharing and open science assessment.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 27, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Efficiency: Reclaiming Creativity and Wellbeing in the Age of AI and Scholarly Publishing

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Ashutosh is a strategic leader in scholarly publishing with over 18 years of experience driving sustainable growth and global market expansion. He currently serves as Vice President of Growth and Strategy at […]

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • May 20, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Fostering AI Adoption and Literacy Within Your Organization 

How can organizations facilitate safe and comprehensive engagement with AI? And how can individuals within those organizations engage and advocate for their own AI literacy? 

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • May 14, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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 — Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher’s Role in Service of the Reader

The most vital and enduring contribution of scholarly publishers is their role as gatekeepers — not as obstacles to knowledge but as stewards of quality, integrity, and trust.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • May 12, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post:  Eight Hypotheses Why Librarians Don’t Like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

AI-assisted search is here, and librarians need to have an honest discussion about how to integrate this new technology into library services. This post explores the parallels to the introduction of discovery layers and how to overcome some of the discomfort librarians might have with retrieval-augmented generation.

  • By Frauke Birkhoff
  • May 8, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Scholarly Kitchen Hires a Sous Chef

Join us in welcoming Lettie Conrad as the new Deputy Editor at The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty, Lettie Y. Conrad
  • May 2, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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