Society for Scholarly Publishing

Emerging Leader Award Recognizing an SSP member who has demonstrated outstanding service and innovative contributions to the field. Nomination packets are due March 27.

Nominations are open for our 2026 Emerging Leader Award! This award acknowledges up-and-coming leaders in scholarly publishing who demonstrate outstanding service and contribution. Any SSP member can nominate an award candidate, including you!

Professional Profile: Ben Mudrak Highlighting unique career paths and insights, SSP Members share their first scholarly publishing role, pivotal moments in their career, and more!

Meet SSP member Ben Mudrak! Ben is a Senior Product Manager for the American Chemical Society and ChemRxiv.

Discover our members' unique career paths, first scholarly publishing roles, pivotal career moments, and more in our profile directory! #WeAreSSP

Economic Resilience in the Year Ahead: Insights from SSP’s Pulse Check How professionals across the scholarly communications ecosystem are assessing the industry’s economic resilience in the year ahead.

Take a look at what your colleagues are saying about financial outlooks, key economic pressures, and where institutions expect to prioritize investment amid shifting funding, policy, and technology dynamics in the new Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications Report.

Guest Post — Societies 2030: The Community Advantage in an AI-First World - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest bloggers call for society publishers to recognize their unique role in shaping the systems researchers use to discover and evaluate knowledge.

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

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"Reference librarians are trying to find hallucinated articles and books, create new lesson plans with AI literacy, and educate those who are uploading licensed and copyrighted materials into training data. We are navigating AI fallout while learning alongside our faculty and students." 📚

Very real. I heard this reflected in my dissertation research interviews, not even asking about AI, but brought up by participants re burnout for instruction librarians

I really enjoyed learning about "night science" from Isaac Wink's post - what might we miss as AI makes us more directional and less serendipitous in our discovery?

Guest Post - The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post offers a review of a panel of publishers and editors discussing the pros and cons of using Generative AI, along with ethical and policy implications.

Guest Post - The Perils of Using Generative AI to Perform Research Tasks: Editors’ and Publishers’ Viewpoints - The Scholarly Kitchen

Economic Resilience in the Year Ahead: Insights from SSP’s Pulse Check How professionals across the scholarly communications ecosystem are assessing the industry’s economic resilience in the year ahead.

The latest Pulse Check findings are now available, providing a timely snapshot of confidence, risk, and strategic direction as we navigate a complex and uncertain economic landscape.

Check out the summary on The Scholarly Kitchen and access the full report on the SSP site.

Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post asks readers to reckon with the idea that knowledge reflects power, and the global knowledge economy excludes the Global South.

Guest Post — Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective - The Scholarly Kitchen

The Royal Society of Chemistry Expands Partnership with Silverchair to Host Journals Portfolio Member News Release submitted by Silverchair on 02/26/2026.

The Royal Society of Chemistry Expands Partnership with Silverchair to Host Journals Portfolio

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)'s banner announcing their upcoming webinar. Against a light gray background with a faint image of stacks of coins is the webinar title "Revenue Diversification for Scholarly Societies" and photos of the presenters, with the text: "David Myers, Data Licensing Alliance; Darrell Gunter, Gunter Media Group; Lori Carlin, Delta Think; Stacey Burke, APS; Shelly Turner, Company of Biologists; David Turner, DCL." In a translucent purple bar along the top are SSP's logo and the words "2026 Webinar series." In another along the bottom are the words March 18, 2026 | 11:00 am ET."

"Professional and scholarly publishers are under growing pressure to expand beyond traditional subscription models." DCL is proud to be part of @scholarlypub.bsky.social's upcoming webinar "Revenue Diversification for Scholarly Societies."

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Wed., March 18 | 11 am – 12 pm ET

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Wiley and OpenEvidence Partner to Deliver Trusted Research to Physicians at the Point of Care Member News Release submitted by Wiley on 03/03/2026.

Wiley and OpenEvidence Partner to Deliver Trusted Research to Physicians at the Point of Care

CCC Launching New AI Content Re-Use Rights for U.S. Academic Customers and Transactional Licensing Capabilities for AI Member News Release submitted by CCC on 03/02/2026.

CCC Launching New AI Content Re-Use Rights for U.S. Academic Customers and Transactional Licensing Capabilities for AI

KGL Unveils AI-Powered Infrastructure to Strengthen Trust, Expand Access, and Future-Proof Scholarly Publishing Member News Release submitted by --.

KGL Unveils AI-Powered Infrastructure to Strengthen Trust, Expand Access, and Future-Proof Scholarly Publishing

Guest Post — Cultivating Serendipity and Protecting Night Science - The Scholarly Kitchen As AI-driven search reduces friction in information-seeking, what happens to serendipity, frustration, and “night science”?

Guest Post — Cultivating Serendipity and Protecting Night Science - The Scholarly Kitchen

Professional Profile: Ben Mudrak Highlighting unique career paths and insights, SSP Members share their first scholarly publishing role, pivotal moments in their career, and more!

Meet SSP member Ben Mudrak! Ben is a Senior Product Manager for the American Chemical Society and ChemRxiv.

Discover our members' unique career paths, first scholarly publishing roles, pivotal career moments, and more in our profile directory! #WeAreSSP

SSP Insights | Individual Survey The SSP Insights Benchmarking Survey closes March 4. Contribute your data to help establish a transparent, research-based industry standard. Enter to win one of five $50 Bookshop.org gift cards!

Final call: The SSP | Insights Benchmarking Survey closes TODAY!

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Guest Post — AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger says academic librarians don't need another class on how to use AI, but an institutional reflection on the emotional and mental cost of rushing innovations.

Guest Post — AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen

Economic Resilience in the Year Ahead: Insights from SSP’s Pulse Check How professionals across the scholarly communications ecosystem are assessing the industry’s economic resilience in the year ahead.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our latest Pulse Check! We've compiled your insights on the Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications, and the summary is now available. Explore trends, challenges, and real-world perspectives from across the community.

Professional Profile: Amanda Sulicz Highlighting unique career paths and insights, SSP Members share their first scholarly publishing role, pivotal moments in their career, and more!

Meet SSP member Amanda Sulicz! Amanda is an Associate Program Manager for Publishing Ethics for IEEE.

Discover our members' unique career paths, first scholarly publishing roles, pivotal career moments, and more in our profile directory! #WeAreSSP

Guest Post — The Value Challenge in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger identifies signals of how fractured the scholarly research ecosystem has become, and how the value publishers provide is increasingly questioned, dismissed, or overlooked by key stakeholders.

Guest Post — The Value Challenge in Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen

SSP Insights | Individual Survey The SSP Insights Benchmarking Survey closes March 4. Contribute your data to help establish a transparent, research-based industry standard. Enter to win one of five $50 Bookshop.org gift cards!

Our Benchmarking Survey closes Mar 4. Help us establish a transparent, research-based industry standard!

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Leadership Academy Returns for Its Second Year: Virtual Training to Develop Leadership Potential in Scholarly Publishing Five dynamic sessions that combine expert-led panel discussions, group breakout sessions, and reflective exercises—register today to secure your spot in this transformative leadership training opportunity! 

Don't worry if you missed the first session of the 2026 Leadership Academy! You can still join us for the remaining four sessions that will equip you with invaluable leadership tools for the scholarly publishing field. Register now before spots fill up!

Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications in 2026 — SSP Pulse Check Report - The Scholarly Kitchen SSP's second Pulse Check survey results paint a picture of an industry in defensive mode—cautious, structurally stressed, but not in freefall.

Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications in 2026 — SSP Pulse Check Report - The Scholarly Kitchen

GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing announces new Editor-in-Chief Michelle Elizabeth Wilson Member News Release submitted by George Washington University on 02/27/2026.

GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing announces new Editor-in-Chief Michelle Elizabeth Wilson

Publications Engagement Manager
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Your Voice Matters—Take part in our 2026 Membership Survey! Members who complete the survey by February 28 will be entered into a prize drawing for exclusive SSP merchandise or a credit toward an SSP webinar!

Our 2026 Membership Survey closes this weekend! It is confidential, short, and directly shapes SSP's priorities and programming. Complete it to enter a drawing for SSP merchandise or a webinar credit!