United2Act Against Paper Mills: Fighting Fraud that Corrupts the Scholarly Record
Fraud is undermining the integrity of the scholarly record. United2Act is striking back at paper mills.
Guest Post — There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI
A data scientist reviews ScopusAI (beta) and shares her analysis of its limitations, reliability, and potential.
Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Barbara Kline Pope
Robert Harington talks to Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.
A PDF Bigger than the Universe
How big can a PDF be?
Protecting Commercial AI Rights is Harder than You Think — EU Edition
Legislation often lags technological advances. The EU’s Digital Single Market Copyright Directive leaves many open questions regarding AI text- and data-mining.
The Second Digital Transformation
The scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. Today, Ithaka S+R reviews this strategic landscape as part of a broader analysis of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.
“Mrs. Foster Has Sworn A Rape”; or, What Do We Owe? Generosity, Attribution, and the Perilous Invisibility of Research Infrastructure
Attribution has many virtues, but among them it can make visible the vast infrastructure of research for a public largely unaware or unconcerned with how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, that research has facilitated.
Guest Post — Study Questions Whether Research Institutions Are the Appropriate Entity to Investigate Authorship Disputes in All Cases
Should the authors’ institution make decisions regarding authorship disputes on a paper?
Humanities and Jobs Data: What’s the Real Story?
Escalating attacks on the humanities often cite the problem of employment for humanities majors; a new report shows otherwise.
Guest Post: An Interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mary Miskin offers an interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang, Director of the Scientometrics and Research Assessment Unit at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who manages the Early Warning List and the CAS Journal Ranking.
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.
The Serious Reader: Scholarship and Annotated Editions
There is a particular reading experience associated with annotated editions of classic literature. How do publishers enhance that experience?
How Would a Starfish Wear Pants?
Nature provides the answer to a question that has certainly been on your mind — how would a starfish wear pants?
Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market
We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.
Can You Really Know Your Customer If You Only See Them One Silo At A Time?
Functional silos lead to customer data silos. Can you get a full view of customer engagement without re-architecting your whole organization?