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Archives: Artificial Intelligence

A Dissonance of Ideals: Openness, Copyright, and AI

Robert Harington attempts to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhanced discovery that comes with AI’s large language models (LLMs).

  • By Robert Harington
  • Nov 25, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post: Supply Chain of Writing Fools

While Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools” referred to betrayal of trust in love, when it comes to AI use of our work, writers feel betrayed by those who should be protecting our intellectual and creative property.

  • By Janet Salmons
  • Nov 20, 2024
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

First-Hand Publishing Experiences: Researcher Panel at SSP’s New Directions Seminar

A diverse panel of researchers shared their first-hand publishing experiences at the 2024New Directions seminar.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Avriel Licciardi
  • Nov 6, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Top Ten Challenges, Needs, and Goals of Publishers – and How AI Can Help in Digital Transformation and the Open Science Movement

As artificial intelligence begins to play an ever-bigger role in the scholarly publishing landscape, how might it help solve some of the biggest challenges facing publishers?

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 5, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Wiley Leans into AI. The Community Should Lean with Them.

An interview with Wiley SVP Josh Jarrett about their work improving publishing processes with AI and licensing content for AI applications.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 31, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — How Generative AI Could Transform Scholarly Publishing: Themes and Reflections from Interviews with Industry Leaders

A new study from Ithaka S+R explores: How will generative AI transform scholarly communication and where will change be most rapid and revolutionary?

  • By Tracy Bergstrom, Dylan Ruediger
  • Oct 30, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: Exploring the “Hopes and Fears” About Generative Artificial Intelligence in Web Scale Discovery

A new survey seeks to better understand the risks and benefits of GenAI in the discovery ecosystem.

  • By Ken Varnum
  • Oct 17, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Tracking the Licensing of Scholarly Content to LLMs

We have developed a tool to track publisher deals to license scholarly content for use as training data by LLMs

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 15, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Overcoming Skepticism Through Experimentation: The Role of AI in Transforming Peer Review

AI offers great potential, but also raises significant concerns when it comes to its use in peer review. Experimentation with AI is needed to find the right role for it in the process.

  • By Krishna Kumar Venkitachalam
  • Oct 9, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post: Time to Rethink Usage Analytics

Users (human and machine) are accessing scholarly content in new ways, challenging traditional usage analytics models. In this guest post, Tim Lloyd outlines the challenges ahead in quantifying usage.

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • Oct 2, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Innovation and Technology in Peer Review: Some User Perspectives

In today’s Peer Review Week post we hear perspectives on innovation and technology in peer review from a diverse group of users from different countries and disciplines.

  • By Alice Meadows, Leo Anthony Celi, Kaushik Madapati, Grace Pold, Nora Slonimsky, Ivone Cabral, Joshua Piker, Sophie Reisz, Heidi Koch-Bubel, Michael Roy, Michael Willis
  • Sep 26, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: AI’s Role in the Future of Peer Review

Peer review needs reform. AI systems can act as assistants, providing valuable feedback for both reviewers and editors.

  • By Zeger Karssen
  • Sep 25, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Is AI the Answer to Peer Review Problems, or the Problem Itself?

Are there ways to use AI in the research workflow to speed up the peer review process — and, while we’re at it, to address some of the other problems around bias and quality?

  • By Christopher Leonard
  • Sep 24, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Peer Review Week 2024: Ask the Chefs

Leading into Peer Review Week 2024, we ask the Chefs: What is, or would be, the most valuable innovation in peer review for your community?

  • By Alice Meadows, Avi Staiman, Hong Zhou, Karin Wulf, Tim Vines, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Sep 20, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Sex and the Serious Reader

No, we’re not advocating anything lascivious. But a reading experience requires a degree of engagement that one essayist overlooks.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Sep 19, 2024
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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