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Guest Post — A Systems Approach to Research Publishing: From Fragmentation to Cohesion

Today’s guest blogger sees scholarly publishing at a critical inflection point and research suffering from a flawed incentive structure. Can systems thinking offer innovative solutions?

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Nov 5, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — The SSP 48th Annual Meeting: Affirming Scholarly Publishing’s Essential Function

Get fired up for the SSP 48th Annual Meeting with inspiration from members of the Planning Committee!

  • By Jessie Slater, Greg Fagan, Marianne Calilhanna
  • Oct 31, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — The Great Pullback: Why Academic Social Media’s Fragmentation Matters

Today’s guest bloggers share insights into the fragmented, tiring, and uncertain digital landscape for academics, and evidence that a shift is underway — with implications for scholarly communication that may be far-reaching.

  • By Deirdre Watchorn, Marion Schnelle
  • Oct 29, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Ask the Chefs: Who Owns Our Knowledge?

In honor of International OA Week, The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs ponder the theme: Who owns our knowledge?

  • By Rick Anderson, Lettie Y. Conrad, Haseeb Irfanullah, Phill Jones, Maryam Sayab, Randy Townsend
  • Oct 21, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Reporting from LIBER 2025: Policy Influence, Library Agency, and Researcher-First Open Access Moves

Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the the LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne (2–4 July).

  • By Eleonora Colangelo, Martina Sollai
  • Oct 16, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Five Tips for Hosting a Sustainable Event

Event planners are faced with the delicate balance between constructing spaces for deeper connection with the impact we’re having on our planet. Here’s what I’ve learned about planning events that prioritize sustainability.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Death of the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Line

In today’s post, Teodoro (Teo) Pulvirenti and Marianne Calilhanna join Randy Townsend to unpack the disturbing topic of suicide among the LGBTQ+ community.

  • By Randy Townsend, Teodoro Pulvirenti, Marianne Calilhanna
  • Sep 29, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Guest Post: Classifying AI Use in Manuscript Preparation – A Recommendation

The STM Association offers a classification scheme for the various possible uses of AI, including GenAI, in the preparation of manuscripts.

  • By Henning Schoenenberger, Kiera McNeice, Joris van Rossum
  • Sep 23, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Peer Review in Transition: Helen King and Christopher Leonard on AI and the Future of Peer Review

Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Sep 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity

This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.

  • By Daniel S. Katz, Mohammad Hosseini, Scott C. Edmunds
  • Aug 28, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Fear, Learning, and Luddites: Opportunities to Lead the AI Revolution

Scholarly communications leaders have the opportunity to turn AI uncertainty into discovery.

  • By Samantha Green
  • Aug 5, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Society Publishers at a Crossroads: New Evidence of an Accelerating Crisis

A recent survey of 66 learned societies (primarily in the UK) revealed a revenue crisis which threatens the very existence of community-driven publishing, and by extension learned societies themselves.

  • By Rob Johnson, Sarah Greaves
  • Jul 30, 2025
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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

Guest Post: When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do

AI-enabled discovery and summarization tools seem like magic to end users, but for publishers it looks like disintermediation.

  • By Ben Kaube, Steve Smith
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.”

Grieving my father’s death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jun 26, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

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