How Printing Was Revolutionized By Cake. Sort Of.
Discover the flong: a papier-mâché mold that revolutionized 19th-century printing, blending ingenious tech with a dash of pastry-inspired charm.
Three Years After the Launch of ChatGPT, Do We Know Where This Is Heading?
Nearly three years after ChatGPT’s debut, generative AI continues to reshape scholarly publishing. The sector has moved from experimentation toward integration, with advances in ethical writing tools, AI-driven discovery, summarization, and automated peer review. While workflows are becoming more efficient, the long-term impact on research creation and evaluation remains uncertain.
New Directions in Scholarly Publishing: What We’re Looking Forward to This Year
What can you expect from this fall’s New Directions in Scholarly Publishing Seminar in Washington, DC?
Guest Post – Beyond Open Access, Part II: Make Images Truly Accessible for All
Today’s guest authors offer practical tips for publishing high-quality image descriptions, a key step toward ensuring genuine accessibility in scholarly communications.
Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All
Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.
INFIDEO Friday: How AI is Changing Our Search Experiences
What happens when AI-infused information systems increasingly provide answers rather than directing people to sources?
Guest Post — Fear, Learning, and Luddites: Opportunities to Lead the AI Revolution
Scholarly communications leaders have the opportunity to turn AI uncertainty into discovery.
Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed
A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Carsten Buhr
Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
Guest Post — The Accessibility Illusion: When AI Simplification Fails the Users With Cognitive Disabilities
Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback — her findings may concern you!
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Matthew Kissner
Robert Harington talks to Matt Kissner, CEO of Wiley, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
AI Strategy, Governance, and Monetization in Scholarly Publishing: Lessons from Industry Front-Runners
At the 3rd Generative AI Summit in London, global leaders and companies shared how they’re embedding generative AI into strategies, workflows, and products for commercial success, operational efficiency, and competitive advantage. Here, we’d like to share key takeaways and insights from multiple perspectives and explore what they mean for publishers.
New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data
Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.
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.
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.