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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

American Psychological Association’s Stepped Approach to Managing Responsible AI: An Interview with Aaron Wood on Employee Policies, Rights Reservation, and Research Integrity

An interview with Aaron Wood, discussing the APA’s comprehensive approach to AI.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Apr 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?

Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post: Navigating a New Virtual Experience at the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting

The SSP Annual Meeting Planning Committee has put together a unique and strong program for virtual attendees to the SSP 2024 Annual Meeting.

  • By David Turner
  • May 17, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Building a Supportive Workplace: Reflections on Mental Health Initiatives and Adaptation

Mental health is all around us and affects everyone. Instead of focusing on labeling it, we should strive for understanding, compassion, and support for every individual’s unique mental well-being journey.

  • By Sharnie Dunstall
  • May 13, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Reading the Movie

Looking for a good summer read? Those with a love for good mysteries and classic films have a treat in store!

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Jul 31, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Revisiting: Who Has All The Content?

Revisiting a post from 2017: Several services aim to gather all publications comprehensively. Who has all the content?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 13, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

An Action Plan for Accessible Images: Practical Solutions for Publishers, Platforms, and Providers

Accessible images deliver an inclusive reading experience and unlock the numerous benefits of data-rich accessible images. This post summarizes a 2022 SSP panel offering practical solutions for ensuring scholarly image collections and in-line graphics are fully accessible to all readers.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Caroline Desrosiers, Hannah F. Heckner, Michelle Urberg
  • Aug 1, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Updating “What Should a Conference Cost?”: Lessons Learned from Another Year of Online Meetings

Mark Carden offers lessons learned from year of running an online conference in 2021, designing a hybrid conference for 2022, and observing what event providers have offered and delegates have experienced.

  • By Mark Carden
  • Feb 15, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect as Content Supercontinent? 

Does today’s news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar? 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 18, 2022
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Fifty Shades of Hybrid Conferences: Why Publishers Should Care (and How You Can Help)

Since in-person events are likely not going away, and neither are virtual ones, conference organizers are left with the most complex of options: hybrid. How can scholarly publishers help?

  • By Violaine Iglesias
  • Sep 28, 2021
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing

This substantive work from John B. Thompson provides a historical overview and analysis of technological and legal challenges to publishing practices in the 21st century.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Jul 20, 2021
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Digital Transformation Requires Cultural Evolution

Turns out, digital transformation is actually more human than technical. Learn more in these case studies from Emerald and De Gruyter.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jul 14, 2021
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

A Media Empire for the (Public) Library? OverDrive Acquires Kanopy

Danielle Cooper and Roger Schonfeld analyze OverDrive’s purchase of the streaming video platform Kanopy.

  • By Danielle Cooper, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jun 15, 2021
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Revisiting: Dear Reader, Are You Reading?

What does it actually mean to read digitally? Revisiting a 2018 post in light of the ongoing, pandemic-fueled drive to digital.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jun 9, 2021
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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