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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
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Revisiting: Who Has All The Content?

Revisiting a post from 2017: Several services aim to gather all publications comprehensively. Who has all the content?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 13, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

The State of Scholarly Metadata: 2023

A new interactive report on the research lifecycle designed to offer a deeper understanding of the state of scholarly metadata in 2023 is presented.

  • By Jamie Carmichael, Jessica Thibodeau, Roy Kaufman
  • May 9, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Will New Clarivate Leadership Yield a Renewed Focus on Its Products?

Today, Clarivate has installed Bar Veinstein as president for Academic and Government, a move that should bring renewed focus to the product portfolio, writes Roger C. Schonfeld.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 19, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Why Interoperability Matters for Open Research – And More than Ever

Rebecca Lawrence discusses how connections across all aspects of the system are needed for open research to flourish and deliver upon its promise.

  • By Rebecca Lawrence
  • Apr 6, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Thinking About ChatGPT and the Future — Where Are We On AI’s Development Curve?

A compilation of links and a video to incisive analyses of ChatGPT and what it means for the future.

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Why PID Strategies Are Having A Moment — And Why You Should Care

Why are national PID strategies having a moment, and why should you care? Find out in today’s post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 25, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

The Dea(r)th of Social Media? Assessing “Twexit”

The brave new world post-Twitter, or post-the Old Twitter, or has anything really changed? Chefs ponder the new social media.

  • By Karin Wulf, Angela Cochran, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, David Crotty
  • Jan 19, 2023
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Measuring Metadata Impacts: Books Discoverability in Google Scholar

Although Google Scholar claims to not use DOI metadata in its search index, a recent study finds that books with DOIs are generally more discoverable than those without DOIs.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Michelle Urberg
  • Jan 17, 2023
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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