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Guest Post — Vital Voices: The Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications

The George Washington Student Journal Symposium demonstrates how student-led journals inspire young people and nurture best practices in scholarly communications.

  • By John W. Warren
  • Jul 10, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report

NISO issues a report on workshops looking to improve the efficiency of working with AI systems in scholarly publishing

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 12, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 22: A Primer on Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) chat with Rafal Marszalek, the Chief Editor at Nature’s largest journal, Scientific Reports about publication ethics and research integrity.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • May 9, 2025
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  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Guest Post:  Mentorship Program is a Win-Win for SSP Members

The SSP’s Mentorship Program is valuable for professionals at all career levels and offers learning opportunities — both for the mentor and the mentee.

  • By Martha Keyes, Rachel Ginder
  • May 7, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Is The Climate Change-Academia Relationship Changing Too Fast?

While our understanding of climate change is shaped by academia, the climate crisis also shapes academia’s research and teaching in numerous ways. In this article, I explore the current climate change-academia relationship and touch upon some envisaged changes.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • May 6, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post:  Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review

Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.

  • By David Green
  • Apr 17, 2025
  • 36 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — No Data? No Acceptance. How IOP Publishing is Strengthening Open Science

Nicola Davies from IOPP details the publisher’s new data sharing requirements for authors.

  • By Nicola Davies
  • Apr 1, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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
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  • 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

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