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SSP Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study Results Available

A sneak peek at the Individual results from the SSP’s Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study provides insight into who has participated and reveals some interesting benefits of working in scholarly communications.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Mar 21, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Why Should Publishers Conserve Nature?

What role does/could scholarly publishing play in nature conservation?

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Mar 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post:  Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance

I tried three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article.

  • By Marjorie Hlava
  • Mar 11, 2025
  • 23 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Challenges in Academic Publishing Amid War: ISSN Issues in Ukraine Threaten Research Integrity

Recently, a group of Ukrainian researchers uncovered serious violations in the use of ISSN identifiers by journals operating in temporarily occupied territories, revealing systematic misuse of academic infrastructure and promoting narratives hostile to Ukraine.

  • By Frances Pinter
  • Feb 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

AI Rights Reservation: Human Readable is Machine Readable — An Interview with Haralambos (“Babis”) Marmanis

“Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language.”

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Feb 17, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

NIH Cuts ICR – Implications for Research Institutions and Scholarly Publishing

What are the implications of last Friday’s NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Feb 10, 2025
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

What to Expect and How to Connect at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024

A preview of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.

  • By Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • Sep 10, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research

Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Resetting and Recharging Research Communications in the Sun of Los Angeles: A FORCE11 Conference Report

The FORCE11 conference at UCLA lays the groundwork to continue its efforts to transform research communications and e-scholarship.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Aug 14, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 19: An Ear to SSP’s 2024 Annual Meeting

This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast offers a ‘vox pop’ peek into the 2024 SSP Annual Meeting with a recap and on-site interviews with attendees. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science).

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Jul 31, 2024
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  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post: Improving Methods Reporting in the Life Sciences

What can we do to encourage and improve methods reporting in scientific articles? A new report summarizes recommendations for editors and publishers alike.

  • By Marcel LaFlamme
  • Jul 24, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — New Directions Seminar: Reverse Roundtables Kept the Post-Lunch Conversations Going!

What are the new directions in scholarly publishing? Check out the unique “reverse roundtable” discussions at SSP’s New Directions seminar!

  • By Matt Cannon, Heather Staines, Jordan Schilling
  • Jul 23, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk

Do publishers really understand what tools researchers are using and how they are using them? Can we do more to create better policies based on real use cases and not hypothetical conjecture about what AI might do in the future?

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Jul 22, 2024
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 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

Putting Research Publications to Work in Tackling the SDGs — 3 Challenges to Publishers

Research publications contain the answers to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. But to realize that potential, more people need to find, understand and act on them.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 10, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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