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AI Rollout Is a People Problem: A Pulse on All Things AI, Part 2

Faced with technological shifts not seen since the advent of the internet, Todd Toler and Angela Cochran posit that the biggest challenges for organizations building an AI strategy are human, not technology.

  • By Todd Toler, Angela Cochran
  • Apr 8, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 13 mins

Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 2

Part 2 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem.

  • By Randy Townsend, Damita Snow, Maxine Aldred
  • Apr 3, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

How Can Scholarly Publishing Overcome Its ‘SDG Inertia’?

Is there an inertia slowing efforts by scholarly publishers toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 26, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3.

In this post, Robert attempts to embrace a gloomy optimism as he muses on the state of publishing at scholarly societies.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — All the Seats at the Table: A Summary and Status Review of the NIH APC Caps Proposal

Today’s post considers the NIH proposal to implement APC funding caps, public responses it engendered, and, while we await a final decision, and shares thoughts on what may come next.

  • By Emma Wood
  • Mar 20, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Could AI Help Fix Peer Review, or Will it Only Make Things Worse?

Today’s post asserts that peer review, which is still of vital importance to science, is clearly failing in the current age — could AI save the day?

  • By Michael A. Bruno
  • Mar 18, 2026
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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.

  • By Ben Kaube, Steve Smith
  • Mar 10, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints

Today’s guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.

  • By Marco Marabelli, Robert M. Davison, Giovanni Gatti
  • Mar 9, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective

Today’s guest post asks readers to reckon with the idea that knowledge reflects power, and the global knowledge economy excludes the Global South.

  • By Nwachukwu Egbunike
  • Mar 6, 2026
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Shaping a Sustainable Future for Academic Publishing: Our Journey so Far

Today’s guest post demonstrates how publishers can reduce their carbon footprint and be leaders in environmental sustainability.

  • By Liz Martin
  • Feb 27, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System

Today’s guest blogger proposes the “Continuum of Consensus” as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.

  • By Ch. Mahmood Anwar
  • Feb 19, 2026
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes

Today’s guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?

  • By Curt Rice
  • Feb 18, 2026
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_

How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 11, 2026
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Part 2 — Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) do About It

Current AI disclosure guidelines are failing and driving AI use underground rather than making it transparent. In this follow-up post, I turn to the more challenging question: what publishers should do about it. 

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Feb 3, 2026
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Call for Feedback: STM Task & Finish Group (TFG) Image-type Taxonomy for Alt Text

Today’s post calls for community feedback on STM’s latest recommendations for alt-text metadata to support images in accessible scholarly publishing.

  • By Lorna Notsch, Beth Richard
  • Jan 30, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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