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AI and Automation Take Center Stage Highlights from SSP’s July 2025 Innovation Showcase

Last week's @scholarlypub.bsky.social Innovation Showcase wasn't just demos - it was a masterclass in publisher productivity.
✅ AI manuscript triage
✅ Cloud-native XML workflows - @dclaboratory.bsky.social
✅ Friction-free author portals - @silverchairnews.bsky.social
✅ Smart discovery engines

Content Crystallizer is a new automated solution by DCL that styles, edits, and transforms Word documents into high-quality XML. David Turner walks you through it at is.gd/GNi6hc.

The presentation is part of @scholarlypub.bsky.social's 2025 Innovation Showcase. See SSP's full video at is.gd/XQDCh6.

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Translating D'oh! - The Scholarly Kitchen Wait, Homer Simpson doesn't say "D'oh!" in different countries?

Translating D'oh! - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post - Well-meant Is Not Well-done:  A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance” - The Scholarly Kitchen While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality:  legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.

Guest Post - Well-meant Is Not Well-done: A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance” - The Scholarly Kitchen

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Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research - The Scholarly Kitchen Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.

Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post - Six Things Your Marketing Colleagues Wish You Knew - The Scholarly Kitchen Industry pros offer a marketing manifesto of sorts, to help our non-marketing colleagues see behind the curtain and understand how to best leverage these critical team members.

Guest Post - Six Things Your Marketing Colleagues Wish You Knew - The Scholarly Kitchen

Associate Managing Editor Summary/Objective We are seeking a dynamic Associate Managing Editor who will help drive the growth and strategic development of a select number of APS journals. The ideal candidate is a proactive sel...

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The Myth of the Academic Summer Break (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves) - The Scholarly Kitchen Summer has officially become a time to catch up on writing, editing, reviewing, hiring, upskilling, compliance, and all the administrative work that you kept putting off throughout the year. Is the idea of "summer break" just a lie we tell ourselves?

The Myth of the Academic Summer Break (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves) - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post - Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals - The Scholarly Kitchen In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.

Guest Post - Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals - The Scholarly Kitchen

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

Meet SSP member Latoya Fladger! Latoya is the Senior Editor Engagement Manager for the American Chemical Society.

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

Emerald Publishing Launches New Emerald Insight Platform Member News Release submitted by Emerald Publishing on 07/22/2025.

Emerald Publishing Launches New Emerald Insight Platform

CCC Named to KMWorld’s AI 100 List of Intelligent Knowledge Management Solution Providers Member News Release submitted by CCC on 07/22/2025.

CCC Named to KMWorld’s AI 100 List of Intelligent Knowledge Management Solution Providers

Guest Post - The Accessibility Illusion: When AI Simplification Fails the Users With Cognitive Disabilities - The Scholarly Kitchen Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback -- her findings may concern you!

Guest Post - The Accessibility Illusion: When AI Simplification Fails the Users With Cognitive Disabilities - The Scholarly Kitchen

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This Thursday! Join @scholarlypub.bsky.social's SSP Innovation Showcase, highlighting developments that shape the #ScholarlyPublishing industry. David Turner will introduce DCL's new Word-to-XML solution Content Crystallizer.

WEBINAR 💡 July 24, 2025 💡 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM ET 💡 Register: is.gd/HemLXu

Guest Post - Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025 - The Scholarly Kitchen Level 3 of STM's SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.

Guest Post - Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025 - The Scholarly Kitchen

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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Melissa Junior - The Scholarly Kitchen Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Melissa Junior - The Scholarly Kitchen

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Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention - The Scholarly Kitchen Guest blogger, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, asks: Is AI for us, or are we for AI? In the all-important context of peer review, can we leverage AI to amplify human thought rather than replace us?

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention - The Scholarly Kitchen

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Access Innovations Inc. Selected for Prestigious KM World AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management 2025 Member News Release submitted by Access Innovations, Inc. on 07/10/2025.

Access Innovations Inc. Selected for Prestigious KM World AI 100: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management 2025

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