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Guest Post — How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing

Libraries and publishers can work together to improve the availability of accessible published content for people with disabilities. Here we present recommendations to support the cross-sector collaboration necessary to improve the accessibility of content in our communities.

  • By Katherine Klosek, Simon Holt, Katherine McColgan, Judith C. Russell
  • May 1, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post: College Closures and the Implications for Libraries and Vendors

College closures are increasing across the U.S, and the impacts on libraries, publishers, vendors, and library consortia are intensifying.

  • By Michael Rodriguez
  • Sep 5, 2024
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Brian Cody of Scholastica

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Alice Meadows talks to Brian Cody, CEO of Scholastica, a provider of software solutions for scholarly organizations — of all types — that publish journals.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Aug 21, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 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

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Wendy Queen of Project MUSE

In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Wendy Queen, Director, Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 17, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Chatbots: To Cite Or Not To Cite? (Part I)

If you use a chatbot in writing a text, and are discouraged from listing it as a coauthor, should you attribute the relevant passages to the tool via citation instead? Is it appropriate to cite chatbots as information sources?

  • By Leticia Antunes Nogueira, Jan Ove Rein
  • Jun 19, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post:  Many Patches Make a Quilt — SSP’s Membership Survey

Here we present the results from the SSP biannual membership survey.

  • By Sharon Mattern Büttiker
  • Jun 12, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Researcher to Reader Recap

Heather Staines offers a recap of the most recent Researcher to Reader meeting.

  • By Heather Staines
  • May 7, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Preprints, Journals and Openness: Disentangling Goals and Incentives

Robert Harington discusses the value of preprints, the importance of peer review, research integrity and openness.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Apr 17, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Susan King

Robert Harington talks to Dr. Susan King of Rockefeller University Press (RUP), in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Apr 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Tracking Research Facilities in Science: A CSIRO/CHORUS Pilot Sets Sail

A new CSIRO/CHORUS project seeks to improve tracking of the use of research faciilities and their impact.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 25, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Navigating the Page and The Reader’s Task

Juggling formats of print vs. digital for books, have developers simply given up on whether there’s room to improve navigation and design?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Mar 12, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Amy Brand

Robert Harington talks to Dr. Amy Brand of MIT Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Are Price, Value, and Openness the Most Important Scholarly Communication Priorities?

Today, Roger Schonfeld argues that there are scholarly communication priorities that merit focus beyond price, value, and openness and which require cross-sector collaboration.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Mar 5, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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