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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
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 13 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 — 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.

  • By Jeff Lang
  • Feb 10, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

How Printing Was Revolutionized By Cake. Sort Of.

Discover the flong: a papier-mâché mold that revolutionized 19th-century printing, blending ingenious tech with a dash of pastry-inspired charm.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Oct 17, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post — If a Tree Falls with Nobody Around to Record its Exact Location, Was it Even Compliant?

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) could make millions of books illegal in Europe, forcing publishers to pulp stock and raising costs for readers. What changes should publishers be asking the EU to make before the regulation comes in?

  • By Sam Thornton
  • Sep 25, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed

A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.

  • By Leslie D. McIntosh, Will White
  • Aug 4, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By László Simon-Nanko
  • Jul 31, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ensuring the Sustainability of Print

Mindful of ecological factors, decision-making regarding print production shifts, balancing innovation with pragmatism.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Aug 20, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Learning from the Archives to Build the Future at the APS Press

Jon Repetti reflects on the lessons being learned from the American Philosophical Society’s re-entrance into the fray of the scholarly publishing marketplace.

  • By Jon Repetti
  • Aug 13, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Digital Archiving, and What Would it Cost to Print an Always Up-to-date Version of Wikipedia

Is the easiest way to preserve digital materials printing them out? What if we’re talking about the constantly changing Wikipedia?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 19, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Lauren Kane of BioOne

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Lauren Kane of BioOne, a community-based platform that provides global distribution for more than 350 journals and eBooks in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 4, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Categorizing Mental Health Research

Hélène Draux presents the first of a two-part effort to chart the topography of mental health scholarship. Here, established methods, including pre-existing classifications are employed.

  • By Hélène Draux
  • Feb 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Intended Audience and Actual Distribution: A Growing Mismatch?

Researchers write articles for a primary audience of peers. Open access has expanded the actual distribution. What to do about the growing mismatch?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Dylan Ruediger
  • May 3, 2023
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Controlled Digital Lending Takes a Blow in Court

A Federal judge’s ruling offered a stern rebuke of the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library and its controlled digital lending service, providing a significant victory for the four publishers that had filed suit.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 29, 2023
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Internet Archive Loses on Controlled Digital Lending

On Friday, the Internet Archive lost its “controlled digital lending” case on summary judgment. Reactions today from our Chefs Rick Anderson, Joseph Esposito, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roy Kaufman, Roger C. Schonfeld, and Karin Wulf.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Joseph Esposito, Roy Kaufman
  • Mar 28, 2023
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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