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Telling the Story of How Open Access Benefits Society: A Vision for the Future

Traditional metrics do not allow us to fully express how OA publishing benefits society; here’s a vision for the future of storytelling with usage data in scholarly communications.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 6, 2025
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Scholarly Publishing Based On a Zero Trust Architecture

The many trust issues in scholarly publishing might benefit from applying a zero-trust framework to the publication process.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Feb 5, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Molecular Connections Buys Morressier

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

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jan 29, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post:  Finding Your Voice in a Ventriloquist’s World – AI and Writing

What are prompts in our writing tools asking us if we want to “rewrite with AI” really telling us? And what would broad adoption of those tools mean for creativity and scholarly research communication?

  • By Janet Salmons
  • Jan 28, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By Brandy Schillace
  • Jan 15, 2025
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

AI and Content — The 2024 Trend that Wasn’t and the Related Opportunity that Exists

As a result of EU law and other factors, rights holders are reserving their AI rights. This material is available for AI training/licensing.

  • By Andrew Campana, Roy Kaufman
  • Jan 9, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Our Algorithmically-driven Homogenized Future

Why does everything on the internet look and feel the same? What role are algorithms playing in driving cultural stagnation (and what might it mean for scholarly discovery)?

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 23, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Navigating the Digital Frontier: How Emerging Tech Trends Are Shaping Scholarly Publishing

A focus on four rising technology trends and the challenges and opportunities they might bring to scholarly communications.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Dec 20, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Once It Has Been Trained, Who Will Own My Digital Twin?

Generative AI agents have the possibility to make us more productive, but once trained, who will own and control it?

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Dec 19, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Research Integrity was the Leading Topic of Conversation at the STM Innovation Day

At the start  of every December, STM hosts their innovation and integrity days in London. This year, research integrity was the focus of both days, reflecting growing interest and concern in the publishing industry.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Dec 17, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

A Dissonance of Ideals: Openness, Copyright, and AI

Robert Harington attempts to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhanced discovery that comes with AI’s large language models (LLMs).

  • By Robert Harington
  • Nov 25, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Important Questions of Our Time — What if….

As we enter the bleak months of winter, now is the time to ponder the really important questions, like, what would happen if every person on earth shined a laser pointer on the moon?

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 22, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Is it Over Now (Social Media Version)?

In 2023 we twice assessed the social media landscape and with the explosion of Bluesky over the last weeks it seemed a good time to reassess. How do Chefs use social media differently now, and what are they seeing as platforms of choice or opportunity?

  • By Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Todd A Carpenter, Lettie Y. Conrad, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Alice Meadows, Charlie Rapple, David Crotty
  • Nov 19, 2024
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Anita Bandrowski of SciCrunch

In today’s post is a Kitchen Essentials interview, Anita Bandrowski, CEO and Co-founder of SciCrunch, talks to Alice Meadows about what they do and why it’s important, her thoughts on working in scholarly infrastructure, and more…

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Nov 14, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Paywalls are Not the Only Barriers to Access: Accessibility is Critical to Equitable Access

Digital accessibility to the scholarly communications process is core to providing equitable access to the literature.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

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