Faced with technological shifts not seen since the advent of the internet, Todd Toler and Angela Cochran posit that the biggest challenges for organizations building an AI strategy are human, not technology.
A new STM Association paper seeks to foster a discussion about how GenAI systems can reliably incorporate scholarly research.
Today’s post explores issues facing scholarly publishers around AI — using it, layering it, competing against it, and licensing to it.
Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community.
In copyright law, the existence of licensing options impacts upon a rights owners exclusive rights.
Fraud is undermining the integrity of the scholarly record. United2Act is striking back at paper mills.
A report of the Chef’s panel on AI, Open content, and research integrity during the Frankfurt Book Fair.
What will the “grey goo” of AI generated text do to us? A scholar of writing and technology talks with us about AI and Large Language Models.
Five pending cases may set new ground rules for use of training materials for AI. Here is what to watch.
A compilation of links and a video to incisive analyses of ChatGPT and what it means for the future.
An interview with ChatGPT on issues related to scholarly communication.
Is there an entrenched stasis in scholarly communication in which the core elements of the system have not been much moved by the revolutions happening around us?
This substantive work from John B. Thompson provides a historical overview and analysis of technological and legal challenges to publishing practices in the 21st century.
Turns out, digital transformation is actually more human than technical. Learn more in these case studies from Emerald and De Gruyter.
On July 4, 1971 Michael Hart posted the first ebook file on the ARPANET and transformed content distribution.