Guest Post — Knowledge as Civic Infrastructure: A Conversation with Nadim Sadek
Wendy Queen interviews Nadim Sadek. Nadim is a creative strategist and founder of Shimmr AI, who argues that AI can strengthen human creativity rather than replace it.
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.
Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 1
Part 1 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
What AI Asks of Open Access
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy — open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes — matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.
Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 2)
Today’s guest blogger continues the conversation about Library Relations roles and what it means to sit at the intersection of libraries and publishing.
Key Takeaways from the 2025 SSP Compensation and Benefits Study
A look at the data from the second year of the SSP Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study.
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)?
Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 1)
Today’s guest blogger discusses Library Relations roles within publishing organizations and asks, what do both publishers and librarians hope for from these appointments?
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.
The Role of Gossip in Scholarly Publishing
Let’s say the quiet part out loud: gossip plays an important role in scholarly publishing. But is that a bad thing?
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.
STM Plants a Flag About Responsible Use of Research Content in GenAI
A new STM Association paper seeks to foster a discussion about how GenAI systems can reliably incorporate scholarly research.
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?
Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do
Today’s post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.
AI in Peer Review: Revisiting an 8-year-old Debate
In 2018 at SSP New Directions, Neil Blair Christensen and Angela Cochran participated in an Oxford debate on the use of AI in Peer Review. Today, they revisit their main points and reflect on where they think we are today and will likely be in another 8 years.