Mental Health Awareness Week: Revisiting Mental Health Mondays
To honor the UK’s Mental Health Week, we take a look back at the Mental Health Monday posts in The Scholarly Kitchen with calls to action, practical tips, and tools for “taking ACTION.”
Guest Post — SSP Annual Meeting: The Highlights are Coming
Today, members of SSP’s 48th Annual Meeting Program Committee share reflections for all attendees — including those joining the Highlights Webinar on June 17, 2026.
Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026
Today, we share the results of a global community poll that produced the theme for Peer Review Week 2026 (14–18 September): “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed and Quality.”
Guest Post — The SSP Annual Meeting: Keeping the Faith in Unsettled Times
Today, co-chairs for SSP’s 48th Annual Meeting Planning Committee discuss what they’re most excited to deliver in this year’s program.
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.
Guest Post — Fostering AI Adoption and Literacy Within Your Organization
How can organizations facilitate safe and comprehensive engagement with AI? And how can individuals within those organizations engage and advocate for their own AI literacy?
Guest Post: Mentorship Program is a Win-Win for SSP Members
The SSP’s Mentorship Program is valuable for professionals at all career levels and offers learning opportunities — both for the mentor and the mentee.
Guest Post — Valuing Community in a Time of Uncertainty
We asked the Program Committee Chairs what they’re looking forward to at this year’s SSP Annual Meeting.
Guest Post — Supporting Academic Librarians in Navigating Attacks on Intellectual Freedom
A recently announced partnership with Emerald Publishing will bring the EveryLibrary Institute’s expertise to the academic library community as the U.S. government attacks extend to institutions of higher education.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Leading with Heart: The Transformative Power of Empathetic Leadership
Research suggests that empathy is a skill that can be honed and is beneficial to all. Empathetic leadership is an art form to convey to your team that you value them as individuals, all while maintaining a keen focus on the organization’s success.
Revisiting Mental Health Mondays
A look back, highlighting posts with helpful information on supporting workplace mental wellbeing
Mental Health Awareness — Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Fireside Chat with Sarah Durrant, Lead from Within (Parts 1 & 2)
A fireside chat with Sarah Durrant; independent coach and transformational teacher, on the subject of Imposter Syndrome. Today, parts 1 & 2.
Guest Post: Many Patches Make a Quilt — SSP’s Membership Survey
Here we present the results from the SSP biannual membership survey.
SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 16: Interview with SSP President Randy Townsend
In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) is joined by SSP’s current president, Randy Townsend. Randy is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing and is an Adjunct Professor of the MPS in Publishing program in the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University.
Smorgasbord: eLife and Significance vs. Accuracy, The Collapse of the Humanities, and a new NISO Draft on Retractions Standards
A mixed bag post from us — can you separate out the significance of research results from their validity? What will the collapse of the Humanities mean for scholarly publishing writ large? And a new draft set of recommended practices for communicating retractions, removals, and expressions of concern.