The AI Slop Overload Does Not Taste Good
AI-generated recipes are taking over the internet. How do they taste?
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.
Guest Post — From Ivory Tower to Editorial Desk: Navigating the Leap from Academia to Scholarly Publishing
Today, guest blogger, Priyanka Gupta, shares the story of her career journey from academia to editorial leadership.
Guest Post — Fear, Learning, and Luddites: Opportunities to Lead the AI Revolution
Scholarly communications leaders have the opportunity to turn AI uncertainty into discovery.
Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed
A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.
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.
Guest Post — Society Publishers at a Crossroads: New Evidence of an Accelerating Crisis
A recent survey of 66 learned societies (primarily in the UK) revealed a revenue crisis which threatens the very existence of community-driven publishing, and by extension learned societies themselves.
Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research
Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.
Guest Post — Six Things Your Marketing Colleagues Wish You Knew
Industry pros offer a marketing manifesto of sorts, to help our non-marketing colleagues see behind the curtain and understand how to best leverage these critical team members.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Carsten Buhr
Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
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?
Guest Post — Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals
In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.
Guest Post — The Accessibility Illusion: When AI Simplification Fails the Users With Cognitive Disabilities
Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback — her findings may concern you!
Guest Post — Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025
Level 3 of STM’s SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Melissa Junior
Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.