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Guest Post — Another Challenge to International Education Programs

Alexandra F. Levy, Brendan Gillis, Sarah Weicksel — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:30:23 +0000

New OMB Guidance threatens the important Title VI and Fulbright-Hays international education programs. Comment period ends today, please add your voice!

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Guest Post — The Third Time is NOT the Charm: Who Will Own How AI Participates in Scholarship?

Wendy Queen, Jonathan Woahn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:30:44 +0000

Today's guest post warns the community that, in the AI era, we cannot keep building the pieces that lay the foundation and letting someone else own what gets built on top of it.

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The Hidden Cost of Trust

Maryam Sayab — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:30:23 +0000

Research integrity demands stronger safeguards in order to protect the scholarly record. But for editors, when new integrity measures are introduced, they do not replace existing tasks; they are added alongside them, compounding workloads and responsibilities.

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Categorizing Open Access Business Models

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:30:19 +0000

Models for funding open access journal article publishing can be sorted into three categories, organized by who pays and what they pay for: transactional, collective action, and subvention.

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Mental Health Awareness Mondays: Community Through Communication — An “I AM EDITOR” Spotlight

Randy Townsend — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:30:26 +0000

This post is part of a special collaboration between The Scholarly Kitchen's Mental Health Mondays and EON's I AM EDITOR. United by a shared commitment to the people who have been called to scholarly publishing, this partnership seeks to amplify conversations about mental health, reduce stigma, and nurture a more supportive, resilient, and connected professional community.

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Friday Food for Thought: Surviving the Cyclospora Outbreak

Lettie Y. Conrad — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:30:39 +0000

Today, The Scholarly Kitchen brings you literal cooking tips -- recipes and advice for your weekend menus!

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Guest Post — Why Research Expectations Have Outpaced the Systems That Enabled Them (Part 2)

Lisa Colledge — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:30:56 +0000

Today's post is the second in a series arguing that fractures appearing across research systems are symptoms of a mismatch within today's research ecosystem.

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Guest Post — What Does Commercial Adoption Mean for the Preprint Movement?

Shaun Khoo, Mahesh Miikael Karnani — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:30:51 +0000

Today's guest bloggers suggest that the involvement of commercial publishers is not unequivocally bad for preprints, and provide some optimism about open access as a whole.

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How Bangladesh Is Reducing The North-South Divide In Scholarly Publishing

Haseeb Irfanullah, Sharif Ahmed Mukul, Samiya A. Selim, Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:30:51 +0000

Four Bangladeshi academics touch upon different aspects of academic publishing by linking them with the SDGs: accessing research; equity in co-authorship; editorial leadership; and SDG framing.

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Guest Post — Why Research Expectations Have Outpaced the Systems That Enabled Them (Part 1)

Lisa Colledge — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:30:57 +0000

Today's guest blogger questions the operating model around scholarly research and asks why these capabilities are so difficult to sustain at scale.

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The Latest Merger: Annual Reviews Acquires Underline Science

Lettie Y. Conrad — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:30:34 +0000

Annual Reviews have been on a steady growth trajectory these last few years, so we sat down with Richard Gallagher to learn more about their latest acquisition.

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Guest Post — From Parasitism to Symbiosis: Escaping Peer-Pressure and For-Profit Publishers Through Diamond Open Access

Camille Thomas, Romain Vaucher — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:30:08 +0000

Two environmental researchers argue that open-access publishing has undergone major “environmental” shifts, triggering rapid and far-reaching evolutionary responses, not unlike natural ecocystems.

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Slow Food, Slow Publishing: The Beauty of Not Being First

Robert Harington — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:30:52 +0000

Robert Harington reflects on our addiction to speed and advocates for slow scholarly publishing and the inherent beauty of not always being first.

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Open Science 2.0: Building Understanding in an AI-Mediated World

Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:30:20 +0000

Open Science 2.0 must focus not only on access, but also on trust, interpretation, learning, and effective communication. The challenge facing the scholarly publishing ecosystem is ensuring that what is open is also trustworthy, understandable, and genuinely useful.

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Guest Post — Research Needs a Shared Standard for AI Disclosure

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:30:15 +0000

Today's guest post presents outcomes of the WCRI's (World Conferences on Research Integrity) Focus Track to address this gap in clarity and standardization of AI disclosure.

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