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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?

  • By Gwen Evans
  • Mar 25, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — All the Seats at the Table: A Summary and Status Review of the NIH APC Caps Proposal

Today’s post considers the NIH proposal to implement APC funding caps, public responses it engendered, and, while we await a final decision, and shares thoughts on what may come next.

  • By Emma Wood
  • Mar 20, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Academic Freedom Under Pressure: What Academic Publishers Can Do

Today’s post is an urgent call to push back against global trends in academic censorship and threats to free speech in scholarly communications.

  • By Ilyas Saliba, Lou Peck
  • Mar 17, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints

Today’s guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.

  • By Marco Marabelli, Robert M. Davison, Giovanni Gatti
  • Mar 9, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries

Today’s guest blogger says academic librarians don’t need another class on how to use AI, but an institutional reflection on the emotional and mental cost of rushing innovations.

  • By Greyson Pasiak
  • Mar 4, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications in 2026 — SSP Pulse Check Report

SSP’s second Pulse Check survey results paint a picture of an industry in defensive mode — cautious, structurally stressed, but not in freefall.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Mar 2, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing

Today’s guest bloggers explain how semantic enrichment of scholarly content allows publishers to shape the next generation of technology by making it indispensable to AI.

  • By Veronica Showers, Heather Kotula, Marjorie Hlava
  • Feb 24, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens

A review of eight technology industry trend reports that offer a similar conclusion: AI is no longer a feature. It’s becoming infrastructure — and the unit of value is moving from “a better tool” to “a better system.”

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Feb 17, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World

Today’s guest blogger calls for “rehumanizing” our view on AI innovations and their impacts on our mental health and our communities.

  • By Krishna Kumar Venkitachalam
  • Feb 13, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … Part Two: The Path Forward

Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.

  • By Jonathan Woahn
  • Jan 29, 2026
  • 21 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Why Authors Aren’t Disclosing AI Use and What Publishers Should (Not) Do About It

Only a negligible percentage of authors seem to actually be disclosing their AI use. Here’s why I think that’s the case.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Jan 27, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Holly Koppel, Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jan 26, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 20, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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.

  • By Gráinne McNamara, Jeremy Ng, Elizabeth Moylan, Coco Nijhoff, Lauren Flintoft
  • Jan 13, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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