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Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … At Least Not How You’re Hoping It Will

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.

  • By Jonathan Woahn
  • Jan 21, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Open Scholarship is Poised to Create More Value than Ever, but Are We Ready?

Today’s guest blogger observes how advances in technology create unprecedented opportunities in open scholarship, and asks: Can incentive structures keep up?

  • By Ginny Herbert
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — AI Use: From Policies to Reality

Today’s guest blogger reflect on their panel discussion about policies and realities of AI in scholarly communications at COPE’s Publication Integrity Week event last month.

  • By Gráinne McNamara, Jeremy Ng, Elizabeth Moylan, Coco Nijhoff, Lauren Flintoft
  • Jan 13, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

AI in Scholarly Publishing — SSP Pulse Check Report

The first of SSP’s new polling initiative, Pulse Check, explores AI in scholarly publishing and set out to understand how our communities are navigating this monumental shift. 

  • By Melanie Dolechek
  • Jan 9, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Hot Takes on the First Quarter of 21st Century Scholarly Publishing

Todd Carpenter looks back on the past quarter century of a digital revolution in scholarly publishing.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jan 8, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Keywords Are Not Dead — But Discovery Is No Longer Just Search

As with previous shifts in content discovery, today’s winners will be those who understand the strengths and limits of AI search, and design systems that let researchers move fluidly between precision and synthesis.

  • By Hong Zhou, Hiba Bishtawi
  • Jan 6, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Year in Review: 2025 in The Scholarly Kitchen

Before we plunge into 2026, a look back at 2025, a difficult year for many in the scholarly community.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 5, 2026
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — How AI is Transforming Platform Strategy: Beyond the Hype

Today’s guest blogger challenges us to look beyond the hype of AI, and embrace AI agents handling platform grunt work, validation, and parallel processing that expands what we can accomplish with immediate and substantial productivity gains.

  • By Stuart Leitch
  • Dec 19, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Three Ways to Innovate and Reimagine Publisher Value in an AI World

AI is presenting new challenges while also giving us tools to innovate in ways. The most successful publishers will be those willing to challenge the status quo.

  • By Jay Flynn
  • Dec 18, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

In the Messy Middle: Observations from the Front Line at the UKSG Forum

The UKSG Forum is “an entire 2-3 day conference stripped back to bare essentials and completed in just one day”. Here are the key takeaways — changing priorities, from global to local; why it is getting harder to keep up and keep order; and the overriding importance of trusted relationships.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Dec 15, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Google’s Last Last Year in Search

The year in search at Google — is this the last one of these we’ll see?

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 12, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post — Building an Intelligence Infrastructure for Science

Today’s guest post spotlights a new scientific intelligence engine inspired by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolution and the mission to give humanity the ability to see its own progress while it unfolds.

  • By Khalid Saqr, Gareth Dyke
  • Dec 3, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Reimagining Scholarly Publishing Workflow: A High-Level Map of What Changes Next

Rather than just bolting on AI to existing publication workflows,there is a real opportunity to rethink and redesign them for human–AI collaboration. Some thoughts on what that looks like in practice.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 20, 2025
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack?

We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Roohi Ghosh, Haseeb Irfanullah, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Dianndra Roberts, Tim Vines
  • Nov 13, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — AI as Reader, Author, and Reviewer: What Stays Human?

Today’s guest blogger shares highlights from a recent panel at the New Directions Seminar that concluded AI is simultaneously the largest challenge and the largest opportunity.

  • By Steve Smith
  • Nov 6, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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