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?
This is the second article of three in a guest series reflecting on the main themes and ideas gathered and discussed at The Munin Conference at the end of 2024. Today’s focus is Open Science.
As a result of EU law and other factors, rights holders are reserving their AI rights. This material is available for AI training/licensing.
Before we plunge into 2025, a look back at 2024, a year of uncertainty in The Scholarly Kitchen.
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)?
Generative AI agents have the possibility to make us more productive, but once trained, who will own and control it?
Here we examine the second phase of China’s Journal Excellence Action Plan, its implications, its funding framework, and what it means for Chinese scientific journals, researchers, and the broader international academic publishing community.
India’s recently announced One Nation, One Subscription plan is in some ways an audacious step into the future and, in other ways, an embrace of the past. What are its implications?
In light of recent events, we revisit Karin Wulf’s 2022 post which declared that universities need democracy, and vice versa, and discussed an important book which shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do as both are imperiled.
As artificial intelligence begins to play an ever-bigger role in the scholarly publishing landscape, how might it help solve some of the biggest challenges facing publishers?
A new study from Ithaka S+R explores: How will generative AI transform scholarly communication and where will change be most rapid and revolutionary?
As the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting rapidly approaches, the Annual Meeting Program Committee Co-Chairs ask members of our community what they’re excited about and why you should submit your proposal before it’s too late.
Journal-based scholarly communication needs a structural change
A new survey seeks to better understand the risks and benefits of GenAI in the discovery ecosystem.
How can smaller publishers support the Sustainable Development Goals?