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Attribution, Provenance, Reference, Citation, and AI for Research Applications – Understanding the Differences

Building robust citation and attribution into generative AI systems are foundational to usage, credit and trust. We need to expect more from AI.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 17, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score

Today, guest blogger Rob Johnson speaks with the creator of Research Nexus Score, and observes that metadata quality has gone from a niche concern to a sector-wide anxiety.

  • By Rob Johnson
  • Jun 11, 2026
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler

A conversation on AI retrieval, the provenance problem, and the shared infrastructure scholarly publishing needs.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jun 10, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Trust & Community Are the Moat, Infrastructure is Your Leverage: Dispatches from PurePub.AI

Today’s guest post asserts that AI infrastructure will let publishers truly leverage machines, while brand and community are what will keep them meaningful to humans.

  • By Laura Harvey, Adam Hyde
  • Jun 9, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Advancing Federated Identity in the Library Ecosystem

Federated identity should be a natural fit for library access. So why isn’t it?

  • By Amanda Ferrante
  • Jun 8, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Rise of China’s Scholarly Publishing System Part 2: Navigating China’s Publishing Ambition — Strategic Options for International Publishers

China’s publishing ambitions create genuine competitive pressures, but they also open opportunities for collaboration and highlight challenges that neither side can address alone

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Ning Zhang, Gareth Dyke, Yanli Wang
  • Jun 4, 2026
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Rise of China’s Scholarly Publishing System Part 1: China’s Journal Ecosystem Is Accelerating

China is no longer simply a major contributor to global research output; it is increasingly becoming a key force shaping the future of scholarly publishing. Understanding what is actually happening, and why, is the necessary first step before considering how publishers should respond.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Ning Zhang, Gareth Dyke, Yanli Wang
  • Jun 3, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Data Reuse is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

A powerful way to quantify article quality has been hiding in plain sight. It’s time to bring data citations into the limelight.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Jun 2, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Scholarly AI Search Shortcomings and the Need for Better Metadata

AI scholarly search tools often miss important literature due to incomplete metadata. Better full-text-derived metadata could significantly improve discovery.

  • By Peter Webster
  • May 29, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Beyond the Article, Beyond the APC: What We Learned from 18 Months of R&D

Today’s post shares the results of an initiative designed to answer the question: what would it actually take to build a publishing model fit for the research ecosystem we have now, rather than the one we inherited?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • May 28, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The User Has Changed. Has Scholarly Publishing? 

For scholarly publishers, the user has changed faster than the systems designed to serve them, and the gap between the two is where most of the difficult work is happening. 

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • May 27, 2026
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Love, Death & Robots: Scholarly Edition

Today’s guest post proposes a method for identifying, measuring, and managing robotic usage of scholarly content.

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • May 7, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

The Opportunities and Perils of Discovery: STM Releases its Trends 2030

The new STM Trends 2030 was released, symbolizing a world full of opportunities but also with dangers lying just below the surface for scholarly publishing.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 23, 2026
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Academic Publishing in the Age of AI: From Content to Trust

AI in science should not be viewed merely as a productivity tool layered onto existing workflows. It represents a structural shift in how knowledge moves through society, and therefore in how scientific authority is established and maintained.

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Maria Machado, Gareth Dyke
  • Apr 22, 2026
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Moving from Identifier to Identity for Researchers

Today’s post calls for collective action to address the researcher identity verification gap in scholarly communications and champions STM’s Researcher identity group.

  • By Tim Lloyd
  • Apr 21, 2026
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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