Goodbye Dolly
Dolly Parton touched so many people’s lives in so many ways. We reached out to the Chefs for their thoughts on her passing.
I am the Vice President of Publishing at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Previously, I was Managing Director and Publisher at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). I have also served as the Journals Director and the Production Director at ASCE. I was Managing Editor of Cancer and Cancer Cytopathology at the American Cancer Society. I am the past president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and the Council of Science Editors. My views on The Scholarly Kitchen are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer or SSP.
Dolly Parton touched so many people’s lives in so many ways. We reached out to the Chefs for their thoughts on her passing.
Faced with technological shifts not seen since the advent of the internet, Todd Toler and Angela Cochran posit that the biggest challenges for organizations building an AI strategy are human, not technology.
In 2018 at SSP New Directions, Neil Blair Christensen and Angela Cochran participated in an Oxford debate on the use of AI in Peer Review. Today, they revisit their main points and reflect on where they think we are today and will likely be in another 8 years.
Today’s post explores issues facing scholarly publishers around AI — using it, layering it, competing against it, and licensing to it.
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We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.
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