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Before the Guardrails: Why AI Governance in Research Must Start with Purpose

Ashutosh Ghildiyal — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:30:06 +0000

The future of scholarly communication will not be determined by how powerful AI becomes, but by whether the research community remains clear about the purpose those capabilities are meant to serve and whether it can govern them together.

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Guest Post — Milestones that Matter: Celebrating a Wartime SSP Presidential Term

Rebecca McLeod — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:30:06 +0000

Today, we reprise the talk by outgoing SSP President Rebecca McLeod at last month's SSP Annual Meeting.

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Making AI Use of Scholarly Content Traceable, Measurable, and Trustworthy: A Meeting Report from Cambridge Scholarly AI Workshop

Todd A Carpenter, Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Monica Westin — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:30:10 +0000

A Cambridge workshop proposes new standard work to support provenance, attribution and metrics in scholarly communications AI tools.

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Frenemies: A Tale of Scholarly Publishing Marketing

Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Michael Groth, MIchael Casp — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:30:11 +0000

Today's post reflects on how scholarly publishing professionals balance camaraderie with market competition, and how 3 "frenemies" navigate complex industry dynamics.

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Guest Post — Legitimate but Not Loved: What Academic Librarians Think About AI

Dominique de Roo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:30:42 +0000

While it’s true that AI may be viewed as "legitimate," it’s far from universally loved. Understanding that distinction tells us something important about how the technology may ultimately be adopted — and governed — within academia.

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A Platform Comes Apart: Part 1

Hong Zhou, Adam Hyde — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:30:10 +0000

Today's post explores what happens to the scholarly content platform when AI agents become the users.

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Ask the Fellows: SSP’s 2026 Annual Meeting

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:30:54 +0000

Today, we offer reflections on the SSP Annual Meeting from our 2026 Fellowship cohort.

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Attribution, Provenance, Reference, Citation, and AI for Research Applications – Understanding the Differences

Todd A Carpenter — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:30:20 +0000

Building robust citation and attribution into generative AI systems are foundational to usage, credit and trust. We need to expect more from AI.

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Academic Freedom for the Win; Open Access Mandate in Germany Declared Unconstitutional

Roy Kaufman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:30:48 +0000

A German court ruled against a mandatory article deposit requirement under Germany's "secondary publication right" (SPR). Whatever the intentions, SPR is mainly going to contribute to the degradation of the record of science.

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Guest Post — The US Government’s New Guidance for Federal Grants and The Case for Scholarly Societies

Darla P. Henderson — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:30:37 +0000

Today's guest post is an urgent call for the SSP community to push back on the US government (OMB), which is poised to overhaul the concept of federal research grants.

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Ask the Community: Takeaways from SSP 2026

John Long — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:30:21 +0000

We asked some of the attendees of the recent SSP Annual Meeting in Chula Vista, CA, to answer the question: “What are some takeaways from your experience at SSP 2026?”

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Guest Post — Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score

Rob Johnson — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:30:02 +0000

Today, guest blogger Rob Johnson speaks with the creator of Research Nexus Score, and observes that metadata quality has gone from a niche concern to a sector-wide anxiety.

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Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:30:10 +0000

A conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs.

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Guest Post — Trust & Community Are the Moat, Infrastructure is Your Leverage: Dispatches from PurePub.AI

Laura Harvey, Adam Hyde — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:30:46 +0000

Today's guest post asserts that AI infrastructure will let publishers truly leverage machines, while brand and community are what will keep them meaningful to humans.

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Guest Post — Advancing Federated Identity in the Library Ecosystem

Amanda Ferrante — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:30:59 +0000

Federated identity should be a natural fit for library access. So why isn’t it?

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