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Guest Post — Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 1

In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) speaks with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Nov 19, 2025
  • 0 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

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.

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Oct 24, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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.

  • By Claudia Taubenheim
  • Oct 20, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen and Saying Thanks to a Few Departing Chefs

Today we welcome Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen to The Scholarly Kitchen as a full time Chef and say goodbye to several long-term Chefs (and offer our thanks for all the wisdom they’ve shared with us).

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 14, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

SSP’s Generations Fund Crosses the Finish Line

SSP Thanks Individual & Organizational Contributors to the Generations Fund!

  • By Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • Oct 10, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — The Economics of AI in Academic Research

In the fast-moving world of AI research tools, there are many community-focused concerns that vendors should have strong opinions on and plans for, from privacy and security to sustainability and copyright. But the most misunderstood issue, in my view, is the one at the heart of it all — how AI will reshape the economics of academic research.

  • By John Frechette
  • Oct 9, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — “Have You Proved You’re Human Today?” Open Content and Web Harvesting in the AI Era

AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT management problem for content-rich websites across numerous industries.

  • By Kate Dohe
  • Oct 7, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — When Significance Hurts: What the SAMPL Guidelines Can Teach Us

If science is to be both honest and healthy, we must accept that statistically non-significant results are part of reality. The SAMPL guidelines, if adopted widely by scholarly publishers and journal editors, hold a solution for authors who worry their results are not “significant.”

  • By Michal Ordak
  • Oct 2, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • 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 — May the AI Be With Science

AI has opened a new chapter in the saga of science and peer review. Today, guest author Prof. Nihar B. Shah explains how, if guided with integrity, AI can open galaxies of possibilities.

  • By Nihar B. Shah
  • Sep 19, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Peer Review in the Era of AI: Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities

The future of peer review isn’t about choosing between humans and AI, or between speed and quality, but about combining the strengths of both to enable speed with quality, to ensure quality, ethics, and trust in the scholarly record.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Sep 17, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

New Directions in Scholarly Publishing: What We’re Looking Forward to This Year

What can you expect from this fall’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington, DC?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Ginny Herbert
  • Sep 12, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Maryam Sayab

Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Maryam Sayab.

  • By David Crotty, Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Sep 11, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post – Where Do We All Fit In? Reflections on Belonging, Purpose, and Progress in Scholarly Publishing

Today’s guest post by Deja Forte declares: Publishing isn’t just about systems and standards; it’s about people. Each of us has the power to build bridges between knowledge and the lives it’s meant to benefit.

  • By Deja Forte
  • Sep 10, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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