Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed
A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.
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 — 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.
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.
Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater than the sum of the parts.
Guest Post — Vital Voices: The Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications
The George Washington Student Journal Symposium demonstrates how student-led journals inspire young people and nurture best practices in scholarly communications.
Guest Post — How the Growth of Chinese Research Is Bringing Western Publishing to Breaking Point
Christos Petrou examines the rapid growth in publication volume coming from China, and how that is impacting the publishing industry.
Guest Post: When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do
AI-enabled discovery and summarization tools seem like magic to end users, but for publishers it looks like disintermediation.
Guest Post — Fiesole 2025: A Step Back to Move Forward in the Era of ‘Postnormal Publishing’
A report from this year’s Fiesole Retreat: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future.
Ask The Chefs — New Court Decisions Issued in Cases Addressing AI Training and Copyright
We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on two important court decisions on the legality of using copyrighted materials for AI training.
Ask the Librarians: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?
Librarian attendees reflect on their experiences at SSP’s Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
Ask The Fellows: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?
The 2025 SSP Fellows reflect on their experiences at the Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections
Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.
Editing in the Age of Misinformation: A Report on the 2025 EASE Conference
In today’s post, three Scholarly Kitchen Chefs — Haseeb Irfanullah, Phill Jones, and Alice Meadows — report on the recent European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Conference (Oslo, May 14-16).