'Guest Post — Societies 2030: The Community Advantage in an AI-First World'

Guest bloggers call for society publishers to recognize and activate

'Guest Post — The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks:

A synthesis of editor and publisher perspectives on the risks of

'From ''AI helps me write'' to ''AI runs the workflow'': Eight Tech-trend Reports

A review of eight technology industry trend reports concludes that

'Guest Post: The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic

A call to 'rehumanize' the discourse around AI in academia, addressing

'Responding to the Threat of Zero-Click Search and AI Summaries: How Do We

AI-driven zero-click search results and generative AI summaries are

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

Toler and Cochran's framing — that AI strategy failure in scholarly publishing is a people problem, not a technology problem — is a maturing and important narrative.

What AI Asks of Open Access

PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt makes a compelling strategic argument: the AI era doesn't just use open access content — it depends on the trustworthiness signals that good OA practice produces (open data, rich metadata, transparent retraction workflows).

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

Robert Harington surveys the current landscape for society publishers — buffeted by AI disruption, open access mandates, research integrity crises, and operational pressures — and finds reasons for cautious optimism.

The Human Heart of Science — Navigating AI Anxiety in the Academic World

As AI adoption accelerates across research and publishing workflows, academic communities are experiencing anxiety, identity displacement, and community fragmentation.

AI Readiness and the New Value Equation in Scholarly Publishing

A Scholarly Kitchen guest post laying out a strategic framework for how scholarly publishers can prepare for the AI era.

From 'AI helps me write' to 'AI runs the workflow': Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens

The frame shift from "AI as tool" to "AI as infrastructure" is the most important strategic concept in publishing right now, and this piece synthesizes it across eight major industry reports — a useful meta-analysis.

There's an Elephant in the Room, but Not in Your Usage Reports

COUNTER reporting has been the industry standard for usage metrics for decades, but AI crawlers and LLM retrieval systems operate outside these frameworks.