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Guest Post — AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing

Today’s guest bloggers explain how semantic enrichment of scholarly content allows publishers to shape the next generation of technology by making it indispensable to AI.

  • By Veronica Showers, Heather Kotula, Marjorie Hlava
  • Feb 24, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Mental Health Awareness Monday — Sing the Songs That Bring You Joy

Today’s guest post shares personal reflections about mental health awareness, the importance of boundaries, and routines you can employ to embrace balance.

  • By Anna Jester, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Feb 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Re-imagining Scholarly Integrity: The “Continuum of Consensus” Quality Control System

Today’s guest blogger proposes the “Continuum of Consensus” as a solution to shore up research integrity, peer review, and the public trust in scholarly research.

  • By Ch. Mahmood Anwar
  • Feb 19, 2026
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

So… IS the Essence of a Journal Portable? Checking in on _NeuroImage_ and _Imaging Neuroscience_

How are two competing neuroscience journals faring since the editorial board of one departed to create the other?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 11, 2026
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Why Science Communication Must be the Next Competitive Edge for Scholarly Publishers

Today’s guest bloggers assert that the future of the scholarly publishing depends on mastering science communication with the same rigor that global consumer brands apply to marketing.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Gareth Dyke, Maria Machado
  • Feb 6, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post – The Next Era of Reference Management: An Interview with William Gunn

Today’s guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won’t!) change the future of reference management tools.

  • By John Frechette
  • Jan 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Open Scholarship is Poised to Create More Value than Ever, but Are We Ready?

Today’s guest blogger observes how advances in technology create unprecedented opportunities in open scholarship, and asks: Can incentive structures keep up?

  • By Ginny Herbert
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Open Access Policies – The Devil’s in the Details

In today’s post Alice Meadows shares some of the feedback gathered by MoreBrains and UKRI about the technical requirements of its OA policy, including thoughts from three speakers at a UKRI webinar on the topic.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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
  • 4 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

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