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?
Guest Post — Putting the “U” in FAIR
Today’s guest blogger calls for adding “understandable” to the FAIR data principles, to ensure we do not surrender human knowledge in our rush for automation.
Guest Post — Why Science Communication Must be the Next Competitive Edge for Scholarly Publishers
Today’s guest bloggers assert that the future of the scholarly publishing depends on mastering science communication with the same rigor that global consumer brands apply to marketing.
Responding to the Threat of Zero-Click Search and AI Summaries: How Do We Tame The Crocodile?
AI-driven zero-click search is widening the gap between visibility and usage, threatening publisher revenue, research integrity, and trust. How should we respond?
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.
Politics and Scholarly Societies: 1200 Partnerships with External Organizations Terminated at the University of Kentucky
Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.
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.
Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward
Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.
Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity
Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? We present preliminary evidence that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in papermill articles.
Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It
Only a negligible percentage of authors seem to actually be disclosing their AI use. Here’s why I think that’s the case.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Courage to Be Uncertain: A New Approach to Impostor Feelings
Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the experience of “imposter syndrome” and how we might adopt a new approach to moments of uncertainty and change.
Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn
Today’s guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won’t!) change the future of reference management tools.
Guest Post — The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool
Today’s guest author raises the question of whether a researcher submitting an article that was significantly drafted by an LLM without clear disclosure is effectively engaging in a contemporary form of ghost authorship.
Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … At Least Not How You’re Hoping It Will
Today’s guest post is the first in a two-part series — we begin by facing up to the fact that AI will not become the content windfall the way many in the publishing industry hope.
Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion Revisited: An Interview with Vicky Williams of Emerald Publishing
In this follow-up to a 2018 interview, Alice Meadows revisits the topic of DEIA with Emerald Publishing’s CEO, Vicky Williams to find out what progress has been made and where improvements are still needed — both at Emerald and within scholarly communications