Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026
Today, we share the results of a global community poll that produced the theme for Peer Review Week 2026 (14–18 September): “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed and Quality.”
The Journal Article Is Not the Job
There is more and more skepticism toward the role of publishers, a steady commoditization of publishing services, and growing fragmentation across the research ecosystem. If that is the case, the question is no longer what publishers do, but how that value is understood and extended.
Guest Post — From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing?
Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder’s post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.
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.
Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 3
Part 3 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.
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.
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.
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 — 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.