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Guest Post — How AI is Transforming Platform Strategy: Beyond the Hype

Today’s guest blogger challenges us to look beyond the hype of AI, and embrace AI agents handling platform grunt work, validation, and parallel processing that expands what we can accomplish with immediate and substantial productivity gains.

  • By Stuart Leitch
  • Dec 19, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Celebrating Public-Good Curators: An Interview with Tracey Brown and Camille Gamboa

Who are public-good curators and how can they help improve public trust in science? Learn more in this interview with Tracey Brown (Sense about Science) and Camille Gamboa (Sage) about their recently co-published booklet on the topic.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 16, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — From Cloud to Carbon: Exploring the Digital Carbon Footprint of Knowledge

Today’s guest post summarizes the discussion in the recent EASE / STM / webinar, exploring the digital carbon footprint of scholarly publishing.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Dec 1, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 2

In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) continues her conversation with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Nov 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 1

In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) speaks with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Nov 19, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2)

Since every possible method and model of scholarly communication is imperfect, a healthy scholarly ecosystem must be pluralistic, providing space for experimentation and for a diversity of methods, models, and philosophies to coexist.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 18, 2025
  • 42 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Next Open Revolution: Equity, Impact, and the Architecture of Knowledge

Today, Alison Mudditt reflects on a Charleston Conference session that asked: what would it take to make the scholarly communication system truly equitable, impactful, and future-ready?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Nov 12, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Impact Metrics on Publisher Platforms: Who Shows What Where?

A review of 12 major publishers finds that they display an average of 6 journal-level impact metrics on their platforms. The Journal Impact Factor is the only metric displayed on all 12.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Heather Parkin
  • Nov 11, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters

Today’s guest bloggers share insights into the fragmented, tiring, and uncertain digital landscape for academics, and evidence that a shift is underway — with implications for scholarly communication that may be far-reaching.

  • By Deirdre Watchorn, Marion Schnelle
  • Oct 29, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Manifesto Time: Do You Need a Publishing Manifesto?

Does your publishing organization need a manifesto? Writing a manifesto for your organization can be a great exercise for team building and planning, and a way to ignite action.

  • By John W. Warren
  • Oct 6, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — When Significance Hurts: What the SAMPL Guidelines Can Teach Us

If science is to be both honest and healthy, we must accept that statistically non-significant results are part of reality. The SAMPL guidelines, if adopted widely by scholarly publishers and journal editors, hold a solution for authors who worry their results are not “significant.”

  • By Michal Ordak
  • Oct 2, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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 — 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 — 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

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