Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications
Today’s guest post explains the new data space pilot, which will be the focus of the upcoming BISG/SSP webinar on May 12, 2026.
Guest Post — Call to Action: Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy
SSP’s Advocacy Task Force Co-chairs encourage members to participate in this month’s Pulse Check Survey on our collective advocacy activities.
The Journal Article Is Not the Job
There is more and more skepticism toward the role of publishers, a steady commoditization of publishing services, and growing fragmentation across the research ecosystem. If that is the case, the question is no longer what publishers do, but how that value is understood and extended.
Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal
Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal.
Guest Post — From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing?
Guest blogger Jonny Coates looks at Richard Poynder’s post-mortem on the Open Access movement, and uses it as a framework to ask questions about the future of preprints.
Guest Post — The SSP Annual Meeting: Keeping the Faith in Unsettled Times
Today, co-chairs for SSP’s 48th Annual Meeting Planning Committee discuss what they’re most excited to deliver in this year’s program.
Ask the Librarians: Recapping a Scholarly Kitchen Roundtable at the 2025 Charleston Library Conference
Today’s post recaps a lively roundtable conversation with library and information science experts who have been guest bloggers for TSK and active SSP participants.
AI Rollout Is a People Problem: A Pulse on All Things AI, Part 2
Faced with technological shifts not seen since the advent of the internet, Todd Toler and Angela Cochran posit that the biggest challenges for organizations building an AI strategy are human, not technology.
Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 3
Part 3 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem.
Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 2
Part 2 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem.
Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 1
Part 1 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem
What AI Asks of Open Access
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy — open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes — matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.
Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 2)
Today’s guest blogger continues the conversation about Library Relations roles and what it means to sit at the intersection of libraries and publishing.
Key Takeaways from the 2025 SSP Compensation and Benefits Study
A look at the data from the second year of the SSP Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study.
Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 1)
Today’s guest blogger discusses Library Relations roles within publishing organizations and asks, what do both publishers and librarians hope for from these appointments?