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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

Mental Health Awareness Monday — Sing the Songs That Bring You Joy

Today’s guest post shares personal reflections about mental health awareness, the importance of boundaries, and routines you can employ to embrace balance.

  • By Anna Jester, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
  • Feb 23, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Why Science Communication Must be the Next Competitive Edge for Scholarly Publishers

Today’s guest bloggers assert that the future of the scholarly publishing depends on mastering science communication with the same rigor that global consumer brands apply to marketing.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Gareth Dyke, Maria Machado
  • Feb 6, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 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

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

Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … At Least Not How You’re Hoping It Will

Today’s guest post is the first in a two-part series — we begin by facing up to the fact that AI will not become the content windfall the way many in the publishing industry hope.

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

2025 Readership Survey

The Scholarly Kitchen’s 2025 Readership Survey reflects feedback from our community that will shape the future direction of our blog.

  • By Alice Meadows, Dylan Burris, Simone Taylor
  • Jan 16, 2026
  • 4 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

The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen

Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 5, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — How AI is Transforming Platform Strategy: Beyond the Hype

Today’s guest blogger challenges us to look beyond the hype of AI, and embrace AI agents handling platform grunt work, validation, and parallel processing that expands what we can accomplish with immediate and substantial productivity gains.

  • By Stuart Leitch
  • Dec 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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.

  • By Hilary Craiglow, Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Tim McGeary
  • Dec 8, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • 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

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

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