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Guest Post — “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era

AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT management problem for content-rich websites across numerous industries.

  • By Kate Dohe
  • Oct 7, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Manifesto Time: Do You Need a Publishing Manifesto?

Does your publishing organization need a manifesto? Writing a manifesto for your organization can be a great exercise for team building and planning, and a way to ignite action.

  • By John W. Warren
  • Oct 6, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post – Where Do We All Fit In? Reflections on Belonging, Purpose, and Progress in Scholarly Publishing

Today’s guest post by Deja Forte declares: Publishing isn’t just about systems and standards; it’s about people. Each of us has the power to build bridges between knowledge and the lives it’s meant to benefit.

  • By Deja Forte
  • Sep 10, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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

2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

Catching up with the ongoing consolidation of the journals market — what has happened in the two years since this was last examined? And how does the market look if you add in a large number of relatively newly launched journals?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Subscribe-to-Open Is Doomed. Here’s Why.

A scholarly communication ecosystem that relies on voluntary support rather than charging for access to content becomes radically less capable of keeping money in the system.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 18, 2025
  • 90 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — What is the Current State of Academic e-book Business Models? 

A new report from Ithaka S+R assesses the current state of scholarly monograph publishing in humanities and social sciences disciplines in order to understand how current business models are functioning for their consumer base, namely libraries and authors.

  • By Tracy Bergstrom
  • Aug 14, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — From Overhead to Essential: The FAIR Model Recognizes Research Information Services as Essential to the Research Enterprise

FAIR represents the best opportunity of the models under consideration to ensure that research information services receive appropriate recognition and sustainable funding

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Aug 11, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Well-meant Is Not Well-done:  A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance”

While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality:  legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.

  • By László Simon-Nanko
  • Jul 31, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Myth of the Academic Summer Break (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)

Summer has officially become a time to catch up on writing, editing, reviewing, hiring, upskilling, compliance, and all the administrative work that you kept putting off throughout the year. Is the idea of “summer break” just a lie we tell ourselves?

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Jul 24, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem

Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 14, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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 Librarians: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

Librarian attendees reflect on their experiences at SSP’s Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 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

Ask The Fellows: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

The 2025 SSP Fellows reflect on their experiences at the Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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