Guest Post — Fostering AI Adoption and Literacy Within Your Organization
How can organizations facilitate safe and comprehensive engagement with AI? And how can individuals within those organizations engage and advocate for their own AI literacy?
Guest Post — Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher’s Role in Service of the Reader
The most vital and enduring contribution of scholarly publishers is their role as gatekeepers — not as obstacles to knowledge but as stewards of quality, integrity, and trust.
Guest Post: Eight Hypotheses Why Librarians Don’t Like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
AI-assisted search is here, and librarians need to have an honest discussion about how to integrate this new technology into library services. This post explores the parallels to the introduction of discovery layers and how to overcome some of the discomfort librarians might have with retrieval-augmented generation.
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.
Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust: The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Issues Guidance on AI
We are expecting the US Government’s AI Action Plan to be issued over the summer. In the meantime, we may glean some of the administration’s views by looking at recently issued information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.
American Psychological Association’s Stepped Approach to Managing Responsible AI: An Interview with Aaron Wood on Employee Policies, Rights Reservation, and Research Integrity
An interview with Aaron Wood, discussing the APA’s comprehensive approach to AI.
Are We Fumbling in the Dark or Laying a Strong Foundation for AI Education?
Adapting to AI requires a commitment to fostering AI literacy and creating spaces to openly discuss its challenges and implications.
Guest Post: Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance
I tried three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article.
Repackaging Christie — Does AI Have a Role?
If the local pub trivia master is looking for information on Agatha Christie, what are the available options? How will AI change the nature of literary scholarship?
We Could Use a Model Licensing Framework for Scholarly Content Use in AI Tools
Model licenses simplified library licenses in the 2000s. The same approach can streamline licensing scholarly content for AI training today.
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?
The Year in Review: 2024 in The Scholarly Kitchen
Before we plunge into 2025, a look back at 2024, a year of uncertainty in The Scholarly Kitchen.
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.
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?