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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”?

  • By Isaac Wink
  • Mar 5, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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.

  • By Veronica Showers, Heather Kotula, Marjorie Hlava
  • Feb 24, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Jonathan Woahn
  • Jan 29, 2026
  • 21 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Holly Koppel, Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jan 26, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By John Frechette
  • Jan 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jan 8, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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.

  • By Khalid Saqr, Gareth Dyke
  • Dec 3, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Nov 19, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Steve Smith
  • Nov 6, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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?

  • By Mark McBride
  • Oct 30, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Deirdre Watchorn, Marion Schnelle
  • Oct 29, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Chefs: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

In honor of International OA Week, The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs ponder the theme: Who owns our knowledge?

  • By Rick Anderson, Lettie Y. Conrad, Haseeb Irfanullah, Phill Jones, Maryam Sayab, Randy Townsend
  • Oct 21, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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.

  • By Ken Varnum
  • Sep 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism

In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices — protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed citizenship itself.

  • By Mike Olson
  • Aug 26, 2025
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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

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