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2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

Catching up with the ongoing consolidation of the journals market — what has happened in the two years since this was last examined? And how does the market look if you add in a large number of relatively newly launched journals?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All

Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.

  • By Amanda Rogers, Beth Richard, Carsten Borchert, Lou Peck, Simon Holt
  • Aug 19, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Subscribe-to-Open Is Doomed. Here’s Why.

A scholarly communication ecosystem that relies on voluntary support rather than charging for access to content becomes radically less capable of keeping money in the system.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Aug 18, 2025
  • 90 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Who Controls Knowledge in the Age of AI? Part 2, Recommendations for Stakeholders

The MIT Press surveyed book authors on attitudes towards LLM training practices. In Part 2 of this 2 part post, we discuss recommendations for stakeholders to avoid unintended harms and preserve core scientific and academic values.

  • By Amy Brand, Dashiel Carrera, Katy Gero, Susan Silbey
  • Aug 13, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — From Overhead to Essential: The FAIR Model Recognizes Research Information Services as Essential to the Research Enterprise

FAIR represents the best opportunity of the models under consideration to ensure that research information services receive appropriate recognition and sustainable funding

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Aug 11, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — A Smarter Way to License Research Articles for AI

If LLMs are the future of information discovery, valuable scholarly content risks being left behind — unless we build a bridge with better licensing.

  • By Josh Nicholson
  • Aug 7, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — From Ivory Tower to Editorial Desk: Navigating the Leap from Academia to Scholarly Publishing

Today, guest blogger, Priyanka Gupta, shares the story of her career journey from academia to editorial leadership.

  • By Priyanka Gupta
  • Aug 6, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 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

Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research

Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.

  • By Lutz Bornmann, Christian Leibel
  • Jul 29, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Jul 28, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Carsten Buhr

Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, 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
  • Jul 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — The Accessibility Illusion: When AI Simplification Fails the Users With Cognitive Disabilities

Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback — her findings may concern you!

  • By Hema Thakur
  • Jul 22, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Jul 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

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