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Guest Post – ODI Survey on AI and Web-Scale Discovery

NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.

  • By Ken Varnum
  • Sep 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Revisited: On Being a Leader Who Happens to Be a Woman of Color 

During the first Trump administration, Alice Meadows interviewed three women of color who are leaders in their fields about their experiences. In this post, they revisit the topic in the light of their new positions and today’s political environment.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Sep 8, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 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 — From Ivory Tower to Editorial Desk: Navigating the Leap from Academia to Scholarly Publishing

Today, guest blogger, Priyanka Gupta, shares the story of her career journey from academia to editorial leadership.

  • By Priyanka Gupta
  • Aug 6, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025

Level 3 of STM’s SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Jul 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Melissa Junior

Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 18, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention

Guest blogger, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, asks: Is AI for us, or are we for AI? In the all-important context of peer review, can we leverage AI to amplify human thought rather than replace us?

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jul 17, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Ask The Chefs — New Court Decisions Issued in Cases Addressing AI Training and Copyright

We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on two important court decisions on the legality of using copyrighted materials for AI training.

  • By Roy Kaufman, Rick Anderson, Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 30, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask The Fellows: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

The 2025 SSP Fellows reflect on their experiences at the Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jun 20, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections

Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jun 18, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Devil is in the Details, Specifically, Titivillus, the “Medieval Demon of Typos”

Have you been visited by Titivillus, the demon of typographical errors?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 13, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post: How Changes to ADA Title II Impact Libraries – And What We Can Do to Respond

Legal scholar and research librarian Latia Ward explains why changes to ADA Title II matter to all libraries — and offers recommendations.

  • By Latia Ward
  • Jun 11, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask The Chefs: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting?

The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs reflect on what they took away from the conversations and vibes at the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Charlie Rapple, Roy Kaufman, Robert Harington, Alice Meadows, Randy Townsend
  • Jun 9, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Discouraged, but not Dissuaded: The 2025 SSP President’s Address

Heather Staines Presidential Address from the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By Heather Staines
  • Jun 2, 2025
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Greetings from SSP 2025 in Baltimore

Some thoughts midway through the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 30, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

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