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The Impact of AI on Information Discovery: From Information Gathering to Knowledge Application

In this post – the first of two discussing artificial intelligence and information discovery – we explore the evolution of information discovery, its role in the research journey, and how it can be applied to help researchers and publishers alike.

  • By Hong Zhou, Hiba Bishtawi
  • Apr 30, 2024
  • 7 Comments

A Roadmap for Developing a US National PID Strategy

A new report “Developing a US PID National Strategy,” outlines the desirable characteristics of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and sets the foundation for a cohesive US national strategy.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 21, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Mental Health Awareness Mondays: A Brief Guide to Mental Health Taxonomies

An important part of mental health awareness is knowing what resources are available. Here a look at taxonomies and classification systems.

  • By Marjorie Hlava
  • Mar 18, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Navigating the Drift: Persistence Challenges in the Digital Scientific Record and the Promise of dPIDs

The internet was not designed to provide a permanent digital record of scientific research. This post looks at current approaches to addressing the shortcomings of the existing Internet technology, identify remaining bottlenecks, and suggest how they could be resolved. Upgrades to the backbone of the scientific record could go a long way toward addressing the replication crisis and the increasing challenges for publishers to spot fake research. 

  • By Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, Erik Van Winkle
  • Mar 14, 2024
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post — The Truth Is in There: The Library of Babel and Generative AI

The short story “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges provides an opportunity to consider the veracity of AI-generated information.

  • By Isaac Wink
  • Jan 4, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Guest Post — Scholarly Social: Findings from the SSP Social Media Survey

Results from the SSP survey on the changing nature of social media use by publishers, research societies, libraries, vendors, and others in our community.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Anne Stone, Jennifer Regala, Susan Willner, Jacklyn Lord
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • 5 Comments

The Necessity of Book Reviews

Is the scholar-to-scholar exchange found in book reviews still of value to the community? There is concern over their decline.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Nov 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Ask The Chefs: cOAlition S’s “Towards Responsible Publishing”

We asked the Chefs to weigh in with their thoughts on the new “Towards Responsible Publishing” manifesto from cOAlition S.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Rick Anderson, Haseeb Irfanullah, Roy Kaufman, Angela Cochran
  • Nov 16, 2023
  • 9 Comments

Approaching Artificial Intelligence and Open Research in Sync: Opportunities and Challenges

Separately, both open research and AI are considered disrupters, causes of disorder in the normal continuance of scholarly publishing. But approaching them in a synchronized way can offer more productivity gains and efficiencies than taking them on individually.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 14, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Worth the Time? A Critical Look at the Value of Twitter for Journals

With yet another stumble from Twitter/X, Angela Cochran looks at the numbers and asks whether all the efforts journals have put into building and maintaining journal Twitter accounts have been worth it.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Oct 19, 2023
  • 5 Comments

Guest Post — Reflecting on a Decade with the Open Discovery Initiative: Insights from IEEE

Julie Zhu reflects on the IEEE’s journey with the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and the benefits of ODI conformance statements.

  • By Julie Zhu
  • Oct 16, 2023
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Measuring Metadata Impacts on Discoverability: A Conversation at the 2023 AUPresses Meeting

A panel attending the 2023 AUPresses Meeting hosted a conversation about optimizing books metadata and measuring its impact on search experiences in the mainstream web.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Michelle Urberg
  • Oct 3, 2023
  • 1 Comment

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
  • 5 Comments

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
  • 2 Comments

Shared Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication: A Draft Report for Comment

This year, Ithaka S+R is examining the shared infrastructure for scholarly communication and will ultimately make recommendations for its future. This week, we issued a draft of our project report. Please share your comments, suggestions, and other feedback by the end of August.

  • By Tracy Bergstrom, Oya Y. Rieger, Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 19, 2023
  • 3 Comments

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