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Guest Post — A Smarter Way to License Research Articles for AI

If LLMs are the future of information discovery, valuable scholarly content risks being left behind — unless we build a bridge with better licensing.

  • By Josh Nicholson
  • Aug 7, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — From Ivory Tower to Editorial Desk: Navigating the Leap from Academia to Scholarly Publishing

Today, guest blogger, Priyanka Gupta, shares the story of her career journey from academia to editorial leadership.

  • By Priyanka Gupta
  • Aug 6, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Fear, Learning, and Luddites: Opportunities to Lead the AI Revolution

Scholarly communications leaders have the opportunity to turn AI uncertainty into discovery.

  • By Samantha Green
  • Aug 5, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 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

Guest Post — Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing

These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Apr 16, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 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

Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs

The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.

  • By Mike Olson
  • Mar 25, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Marketing and the Origins of Food Names

Where do common food names come from, and how does changing the name of a food reflect marketing and sales?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 9, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness Mondays: It’s OK to Talk ‘Mental Health’, Isn’t it? Two Founders, Two Opinions

Mental health affects everyone across an organization.  Today we explore insights on mental health with the founders and leaders of two industry organizations. What are the challenges of starting your own business and keeping it running?

  • By Lou Peck, Sowmya Mahadevan
  • Jul 15, 2024
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 14 mins

Web-scale Institutional Search: How are Vendors Responding to ODI Recommendations?

Providers of library discovery services reflect on the impact and value of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

18 Life Lessons

Charlie Rapple shares 18 hard-won nuggets of wisdom to ease your passage through your career, and through your life.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 18, 2024
  • 33 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Towards Conversational Discovery: New Discovery Applications for Scholarly Information in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

How is generative AI moving us towards conversational discovery and what does this mean for publishing and future trends in information discovery?

  • By Hong Zhou, Hiba Bishtawi
  • Jun 4, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

The American Sunlight Project Wants to Make It More Costly for Bad Actors to Spread Disinformation: How Will They Do That?

How will the American Sunlight Project make it more costly for bad actors to spread disinformation — and what does this mean for scholarly publishing?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jun 3, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Shipping up to Boston? Plan Some Workers’ Playtime during the SSP Annual Meeting

Heading to Boston for the SSP’s annual meeting? Here’s an insiders’ guide to the city.

  • By Anne Stone, Erin Foley
  • May 17, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post – Reconnecting by Reading: A Selection of Books About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Part 2

We learn from each other and about each other through reading. Today part 2 of 2 where we have asked members of the SSP community to recommend books about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility matters.

  • By Damita Snow
  • May 16, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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