Guest Post — Not the Real Housewives of Scholarly Publishing
Today’s guest bloggers reflect on an SSP panel conversation about how scholarly publishing is not only built through shared work but also through shared understanding.
Guest Post — AI Can Find the Article. Can It Tell Which Version It Used?
In this AI era, establishing trust and validating article versions with persistent identifiers (PIDs) is more important than ever.
Guest Post — Preserving the Record, Shaping the Future: Why Diversity Matters in Digital Preservation
Today’s guest post argues that digital preservation is not just a technical problem, but a function that often ignores issues of social justice, quietly codifying existing imbalances in scholarly communication.
Guest Post — When Errors Become Consensus: Science’s Self-Correction Can No Longer Keep Up
From 19th-century beef tea to paper mills and generative AI, the challenge is no longer detection alone; it is preventing bad claims from becoming embedded knowledge.
Guest Post — The Guild and the Gap: What One Rejection Revealed About the Cost of Credentialism
Today’s guest post asks: Do trust markers and other systematic fraud-prevention practices exclude unaffiliated authors from contributing to the scholarly record?
Reading Between the Lines, Part 2: Cognitive Debt and the Adaptive Publisher
The central risk of AI in scholarly publishing is therefore not hallucination but cognitive debt: the gradual erosion of the human capacities that give scholarship its originality, integrity, and meaning.
What Authors Expect Now, and Why Publishing Hasn’t Kept Up: An Interview with Jennifer Fleet of Aries Systems and Christian Grubak of ChronosHub
Today Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Fleet (Aries Systems) and Christian Gruback (ChronosHub) about changing author needs and how their recently announced partnership is an effort to address them.
New Guidance from COPE: An Interview with Natalie Ridgway
An interview with Natalie Ridgway about new guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Guest Post — Buying the Middle: Reading the Wiley Emerald Deal from the Global South
Publishing infrastructure shapes careers. It shapes what questions get asked, what research gets validated, and whose voices enter the global scholarly conversation. As the scholarly publishing market continues to consolidate, how does that impact different communities in different ways?
From Hub to Hustle: The Scattered Social Landscape in Scholarly Comms
How has the social media landscape in scholarly communications changed, according to data from the recent Pulse Check, past community surveys, and checked real, live marketers?
Ask the Community: What’s Next for the OMB Rule Change?
Today, we asked the community: What key message(s) do you want policymakers to take from the responses submitted to the OMB?
Guest Post — Another Challenge to International Education Programs
New OMB Guidance threatens the important Title VI and Fulbright-Hays international education programs. Comment period ends today, please add your voice!
Guest Post — The Third Time is NOT the Charm: Who Will Own How AI Participates in Scholarship?
Today’s guest post warns the community that, in the AI era, we cannot keep building the pieces that lay the foundation and letting someone else own what gets built on top of it.
The Hidden Cost of Trust
Research integrity demands stronger safeguards in order to protect the scholarly record. But for editors, when new integrity measures are introduced, they do not replace existing tasks; they are added alongside them, compounding workloads and responsibilities.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Community Through Communication — An “I AM EDITOR” Spotlight
This post is part of a special collaboration between The Scholarly Kitchen’s Mental Health Mondays and EON’s I AM EDITOR. United by a shared commitment to the people who have been called to scholarly publishing, this partnership seeks to amplify conversations about mental health, reduce stigma, and nurture a more supportive, resilient, and connected professional community.