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Critical Archives

Studying the way we've studied the past is mutual work. Archivists and librarians, and scholars using their collections, have each been producing critical archives scholarship that too often remains within...

  • By Karin Wulf, Amanda Strauss
  • Aug 24, 2023
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AI Beyond the Publishing Workflow

What uses for artificial intelligence (AI) might we expect outside of the publication workflow? Some answers to this question can be found through the lenses of sustainability, justice, and resilience.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Aug 23, 2023
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Bambi for the Serious Reader

The Disney film may be considered a classic, but Princeton University Press has more successfully delivered Felix Salton’s original message.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Aug 22, 2023
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Universal Access to Reliable Healthcare Information: An Interview with Neil Pakenham-Walsh of HIFA

Coinciding with the launch of Healthcare Information for All’s global community survey, Alice Meadows interviews their Global Coordinator, Neil Pakenham-Walsh, about his organization’s work to ensure equitable access to reliable healthcare information for everyone.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Aug 21, 2023
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The Size of Things: How Big is the Milky Way?

Ah the joy of a good scale bar. Here we find out how big the earth would be if the Milky Way was the size of the US.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 18, 2023
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Generative AI, ChatGPT, and Google Bard: Evaluating the Impact and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing

To identify both benefits and risks of generative AI for our industry, we tested ChatGPT and Google Bard for authoring, for submission and reviews, for publishing, and for discovery and dissemination.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Aug 17, 2023
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Web-scale Institutional Search: What are Publishers Doing Today?

Twelve years after the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) launched, I wonder: How are scholarly content providers leveraging ODI conformance statements to drive transparency and usage via web-scale library discovery services?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Aug 16, 2023
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Guest Post — Navigating the Sustainability Landscape: A New STM Roadmap Provides a Guide to Embedding Sustainability in Publishing 

The STM Association has launched an SDG roadmap. It is a list of suggested steps to provide inspiration and pathways to navigate the sustainability initiatives and actions that publishers and societies can undertake.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Aug 15, 2023
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Guest Post – In Defense of Endogeny

While higher rates of endogeny can help indexes identify journals being used for self-promotion, nepotism, or other unethical ends, endogeny itself should not be equated with them and can be the result of a narrow or new field of research.

  • By Christopher Barnes, Reem Khamis, Yvette Hyter, Betty Yu
  • Aug 14, 2023
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Experience Graduate School with this PhD Simulator

Experience all the highs and lows of graduate school with this new PhD Simulator.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 11, 2023
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Guest Post — Digital Humanities, Data Literacy Skills and AI: Understanding the Way Things Work

New data literacy and artificial literacy standards are necessary and emerging. The workflows and iterative mindsets the Digital Humanities can help inform our approaches.

  • By Jess Ludwig
  • Aug 10, 2023
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Science and Truth, Stanford President and Student Journalism Edition

A world famous scientist and university president brought down by a student journalist’s investigative reporting. But the big story is how we fund and reward ethical research.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 9, 2023
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Will Building LLMs Become the New Revenue Driver for Academic Publishing?

Are scholarly publishers primed to become the critical content suppliers for the big Generative AI companies?

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Aug 8, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Thoreau and the Office Cubicle

Fretting over work even as you head out on vacation? A new book on Henry David Thoreau may cause you to rethink employment priorities.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Aug 7, 2023
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The Great Libraries of China

An architectural tour of the great libraries of China turns up a spectacular place to read a book on the beach.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 4, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Are HIT-backed AI Research Integrity Solutions the Need of the Hour?

In this article, Minhaj Rain explores how human intelligence tasks (HITs) and not simply more AI tools could be the way forward as a reliable and scalable solution for maintaining research integrity within the scholarly record.

  • By Minhaj Rais
  • Aug 3, 2023
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