What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing
Today's guest blogger calls for adding "understandable" to the FAIR data principles, to ensure we do not surrender human knowledge in our rush for automation.
Most people in academic careers will at some point be faced with parenting and/or caregiving responsibilities. But is academia designed to support caregivers and parents?
Today’s guest bloggers assert that the future of the scholarly publishing depends on mastering science communication with the same rigor that global consumer brands apply to marketing.
In this interview with Alice Meadows, Sami Benchekroun (Morressier/Molecular Connections) and Rod Cookson (The Royal Society) share their thoughts about how and why scholarly publishing needs to move away from being article-based.
AI-driven zero-click search is widening the gap between visibility and usage, threatening publisher revenue, research integrity, and trust. How should we respond?
Current AI disclosure guidelines are failing and driving AI use underground rather than making it transparent. In this follow-up post, I turn to the more challenging question: what publishers should do about it.
Robert Harington attempts to shine a light on some of the political problems scholarly societies and academic institutions face in the current political climate.
Today’s post calls for community feedback on STM’s latest recommendations for alt-text metadata to support images in accessible scholarly publishing.
Today’s post paves a clear path forward in making AI work for publishers in the brave new agentic world.
Is open scholarship an honest signal of researcher integrity? We present preliminary evidence that data and code sharing, preprinting, and other open behaviors are indeed less common in papermill articles.
Only a negligible percentage of authors seem to actually be disclosing their AI use. Here’s why I think that’s the case.
Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the experience of “imposter syndrome” and how we might adopt a new approach to moments of uncertainty and change.
Today’s guest post features an interview with William Gunn discussing how AI will (or won’t!) change the future of reference management tools.
Today’s guest author raises the question of whether a researcher submitting an article that was significantly drafted by an LLM without clear disclosure is effectively engaging in a contemporary form of ghost authorship.
Today’s guest post is the first in a two-part series — we begin by facing up to the fact that AI will not become the content windfall the way many in the publishing industry hope.
In this follow-up to a 2018 interview, Alice Meadows revisits the topic of DEIA with Emerald Publishing’s CEO, Vicky Williams to find out what progress has been made and where improvements are still needed — both at Emerald and within scholarly communications