Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Courage to Be Uncertain: A New Approach to Impostor Feelings
Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the experience of “imposter syndrome” and how we might adopt a new approach to moments of uncertainty and change.
Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion Revisited: An Interview with Vicky Williams of Emerald Publishing
In this follow-up to a 2018 interview, Alice Meadows revisits the topic of DEIA with Emerald Publishing’s CEO, Vicky Williams to find out what progress has been made and where improvements are still needed — both at Emerald and within scholarly communications
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.
Guest Post — AI Use: From Policies to Reality
Today’s guest blogger reflect on their panel discussion about policies and realities of AI in scholarly communications at COPE’s Publication Integrity Week event last month.
Ask The Chefs: What Would You Ask of Academic Publishing Santa
To close out 2025, we asked the Chefs: What would you ask for from Academic Publishing Santa?
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.
Guest Post — Funding Research Services: How Libraries are Exploring Cost Recovery Models
Today’s guest bloggers share results of an exploratory survey of funding research services, offering a snapshot of a library community in transition.
Guest Post — Building an Intelligence Infrastructure for Science
Today’s guest post spotlights a new scientific intelligence engine inspired by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolution and the mission to give humanity the ability to see its own progress while it unfolds.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Balancing Work and Caregiving: Flexibility That Works for Everyone
Today, nearly one in four adults serves as a caregiver. Because of this, work-life flexibility isn’t just a nicety it’s a game-changer, for individuals and organizations alike.
Reimagining Scholarly Publishing Workflow: A High-Level Map of What Changes Next
Rather than just bolting on AI to existing publication workflows,there is a real opportunity to rethink and redesign them for human–AI collaboration. Some thoughts on what that looks like in practice.
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?
Guest Post — AI as Reader, Author, and Reviewer: What Stays Human?
Today’s guest blogger shares highlights from a recent panel at the New Directions Seminar that concluded AI is simultaneously the largest challenge and the largest opportunity.
Guest Post — Do Academic Libraries Have a Strategy for AI?
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, and sustainability?
Insights from the SSP Organizational Compensation and Benefits Study
Building on SSP’s spring results of the individual compensation and benefits study, Melanie Dolechek shares insights from the organizational survey — a slide of the survey data that provides useful benchmarks on policies and practices across publishing organizations.
Guest Post — From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing
For decades, EAL researchers have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. AI writing tools promise relief, yet, they also bring new risks into science.