Guest Post — Gen Z and Academic Libraries: Reading, but Differently
Today’s guest blogger asks: How much do we read today? How do reading habits vary across generations? What should libraries and publishers do to encourage reading?
Guest Post — Societies 2030: The Community Advantage in an AI-First World
Today’s guest bloggers call for society publishers to recognize their unique role in shaping the systems researchers use to discover and evaluate knowledge.
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”?
Guest Post — AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing
Today’s guest bloggers explain how semantic enrichment of scholarly content allows publishers to shape the next generation of technology by making it indispensable to AI.
Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward
Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Courage to Be Uncertain: A New Approach to Impostor Feelings
Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the experience of “imposter syndrome” and how we might adopt a new approach to moments of uncertainty and change.
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.
Hot Takes on the First Quarter of 21st Century Scholarly Publishing
Todd Carpenter looks back on the past quarter century of a digital revolution in scholarly publishing.
Guest Post — Building an Intelligence Infrastructure for Science
Today’s guest post spotlights a new scientific intelligence engine inspired by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolution and the mission to give humanity the ability to see its own progress while it unfolds.
Guest Post — Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 1
In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) speaks with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.
Guest Post — AI as Reader, Author, and Reviewer: What Stays Human?
Today’s guest blogger shares highlights from a recent panel at the New Directions Seminar that concluded AI is simultaneously the largest challenge and the largest opportunity.
Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, and sustainability?
Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters
Today’s guest bloggers share insights into the fragmented, tiring, and uncertain digital landscape for academics, and evidence that a shift is underway — with implications for scholarly communication that may be far-reaching.
Ask the Chefs: Who Owns Our Knowledge?
In honor of International OA Week, The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs ponder the theme: Who owns our knowledge?
Guest Post – ODI Survey on AI and Web-Scale Discovery
NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.