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Guest Post — The SSP Annual Meeting: Keeping the Faith in Unsettled Times

Jessie Slater, Greg Fagan, Marianne Calilhanna — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:30:18 +0000

Today, co-chairs for SSP's 48th Annual Meeting Planning Committee discuss what they're most excited to deliver in this year's program.

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Ask the Librarians: Recapping a Scholarly Kitchen Roundtable at the 2025 Charleston Library Conference

Lettie Y. Conrad — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:30:52 +0000

Today's post recaps a lively roundtable conversation with library and information science experts who have been guest bloggers for TSK and active SSP participants.

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AI Rollout Is a People Problem: A Pulse on All Things AI, Part 2

Todd Toler, Angela Cochran — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:30:10 +0000

Faced with technological shifts not seen since the advent of the internet, Todd Toler and Angela Cochran posit that the biggest challenges for organizations building an AI strategy are human, not technology.

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Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 3

Randy Townsend, Damita Snow, Maxine Aldred — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:30:20 +0000

Part 3 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem.

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Guest Post — Knowledge as Civic Infrastructure: A Conversation with Nadim Sadek

Wendy Queen — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:30:31 +0000

Wendy Queen interviews Nadim Sadek. Nadim is a creative strategist and founder of Shimmr AI, who argues that AI can strengthen human creativity rather than replace it.

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Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 2

Randy Townsend, Damita Snow, Maxine Aldred — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:30:11 +0000

Part 2 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem.

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Guest Post — Diamond Open Access: A Lifeline for the Monograph?

Benedetta Siviero, Lena Ryzhova — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:30:08 +0000

Today's guest bloggers ask: Can Diamond OA serve as a genuine lifeline for the scholarly monograph?

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Standing Up, Standing Proud, Standing Together: Inside the Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit and the Movement for Equity in Scholarly Publishing: Part 1

Randy Townsend, Damita Snow, Maxine Aldred — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:30:38 +0000

Part 1 of a look at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ inaugural Pathways to Inclusive Publishing Summit, which brought together industry leaders, content creators, and allies to explore strategies for fostering inclusivity and accessibility within the publishing ecosystem

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What AI Asks of Open Access

Alison Mudditt — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:30:17 +0000

As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy -- open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes -- matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.

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Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 2)

Gwen Evans — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:30:33 +0000

Today's guest blogger continues the conversation about Library Relations roles and what it means to sit at the intersection of libraries and publishing.

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Key Takeaways from the 2025 SSP Compensation and Benefits Study

Melanie Dolechek — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:30:28 +0000

A look at the data from the second year of the SSP Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study.

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How Can Scholarly Publishing Overcome Its ‘SDG Inertia’?

Haseeb Irfanullah — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:30:19 +0000

Is there an inertia slowing efforts by scholarly publishers toward achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

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Guest Post — Senior Librarians as Publisher Change Agents: What’s the Business Case? (Part 1)

Gwen Evans — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:30:55 +0000

Today's guest blogger discusses Library Relations roles within publishing organizations and asks, what do both publishers and librarians hope for from these appointments?

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Scholarly Society Sustainability in an Unstable Publishing World: Reasons to be Cheerful, Parts 1, 2, and 3.

Robert Harington — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:30:34 +0000

In this post, Robert attempts to embrace a gloomy optimism as he muses on the state of publishing at scholarly societies.

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The Role of Gossip in Scholarly Publishing

Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:30:26 +0000

Let’s say the quiet part out loud: gossip plays an important role in scholarly publishing. But is that a bad thing?

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