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American Psychological Association’s Stepped Approach to Managing Responsible AI: An Interview with Aaron Wood on Employee Policies, Rights Reservation, and Research Integrity

An interview with Aaron Wood, discussing the APA’s comprehensive approach to AI.

No One Size Fits All: The Case for Taking a National Approach to PID Adoption

Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative’s recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).

New STM 2029 Trends Report Provides a Bridge to the Future

Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community.

The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now

The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?

Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs

The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.

A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?

Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.

Research Integrity, Image Manipulation, Content Provenance and the C2PA

Image integrity has been a growing issue in scholarly publishing. Todd Carpenter suggests we addreess the problem of image integrity at scale.

It Takes a Village: Empowering the Community to Improve Scholarly Metadata through COMET

What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…

Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect

Will the next generation of professions be impressed with the content platforms and workflow tools we currently have? Angela Cochran imagines a world where we meet the challenge of modernized systems.

Indirect Costs (Facilities and Administration Cost) Explainer

The US government is looking to drastically reduce the amount paid in “indirect costs” in federal grants. Just what are “indirect costs”?

AI Rights Reservation: Human Readable is Machine Readable — An Interview with Haralambos (“Babis”) Marmanis

“Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language.”

NIH Cuts ICR – Implications for Research Institutions and Scholarly Publishing

What are the implications of last Friday’s NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.

Design Matters: Why Ireland Has The Best Postal Codes

Seeking a little order amidst the chaos? Why not enjoy Irish postal codes…

Molecular Connections Buys Morressier

Molecular Connections has purchased Morressier. Analysis from Roger C. Schonfeld.

Guest Post: An Editor’s Perspective on “My Very Last Issue.”

BMJ’s Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Brandy Schillace reflects on changes in publishing that are making important work harder to do.

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