(2 Mar 2026) SSP’s polling initiative, Pulse Check, is a series of short, focused polls designed to track trends and challenges in real time. The second poll in the series, “Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications in 2026,” set out to understand how professionals across the scholarly communications ecosystem are assessing the industry’s economic resilience in the…
(24 Feb 2026) The widespread availability of AI tools has put the potential for student academic misconduct and concerns around the possibility of enforcement in the spotlight. It has also contributed to a market for academic misconduct services. Exploring how these platforms draw users into a wider ecosystem of services, Gengyan Tang, Sarah Elaine Eaton and Wei Cai find…
(12 Feb 2026) During recent decades, universities have faced increasing pressure to demonstrate their value and impact by contributing to real-world problem-solving and meeting broader societal needs. The reasons for this increased pressure are complex and numerous—reflecting socio-economic and socio-political considerations, globalization and intensifying competition, and growing demands for accountability and demonstrable public value. At…
(4 Feb 2026) You’d have to have a laser focus elsewhere not to notice the growing concern about research integrity. In recent months there have been many reports, conference sessions and webinars all looking at the risks institutions and researchers face when research is of uncertain quality or dubious provenance. Librarians are at the forefront…
(2 Feb 2026) A cloud-computing architect at German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, who is based in Raeren, Belgium, created Aletheia-Probe while he was helping his colleagues to write a review paper on energy management. He needed to evaluate more than 350 papers. “I will not do this manually,” he recalls thinking. Like any good software…
(27 Jan 2026) Over the past decade, Hindawi expanded rapidly from a small open access (OA) publisher into a large, multi-journal operation publishing tens of thousands of articles annually. This period of growth coincided with an increase in submissions later linked to paper mills. By 2023–2024, public reporting documented that more than 8,000 articles across a…
(23 Jan 2026) The popular arXiv preprint server, which holds nearly 3 million manuscripts, mainly in computing science, physics, and math, has put up a new hurdle for first-time submitters. Until now, someone wanting to submit to arXiv for the first time only needed an email address affiliated with a reputable academic or research institution,…
(27 Jan 2026) The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers’ (STM) Alt Text Task & Finish Group has released a draft image-type taxonomy for scholarly images and opened the document for public feedback. The draft taxonomy was developed through collaboration among STM members to support accessible publishing and to assist authors and publishers in writing…
(18 Dec 2025) Cambridge University Press has launched a new grant to support under-represented early career scholars from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations, including first generation scholars. The Cambridge Amplify Grant aims to help recipients to develop their first book manuscripts and provide developmental support from Cambridge’s books editorial team. The inaugural grant will enable the…
(6 Jan 2026) This post by Hong Zhou and Hiba Bishtawi analyzes shifts in research discovery from traditional keyword searches to AI-driven tools. It argues keywords remain vital for precision while AI excels in synthesis, based on testing of four ai discovery tools. “The broader implication is that we are not moving from keywords…