Today Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Fleet (Aries Systems) and Christian Gruback (ChronosHub) about changing author needs and how their recently announced partnership is an effort to address them.
What happens then to “author voice,” which has always been an important consideration to authors and reviewers alike, if AI is helping researchers with their writing?
Only a negligible percentage of authors seem to actually be disclosing their AI use. Here’s why I think that’s the case.
The MIT Press surveyed book authors on attitudes towards LLM training practices. In Part 2 of this 2 part post, we discuss recommendations for stakeholders to avoid unintended harms and preserve core scientific and academic values.
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?
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).
Robert Harington talks to Dr. Susan King of Rockefeller University Press (RUP), in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
Robert Harington talks to Dr. Amy Brand of MIT Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
With a lawsuit filed last week Pen America, Penguin Random House, authors, and parents began fighting book bans. Other publishers should help.
Saikiran Chandha discusses the impact of GPT-3 and related models on research, the potential question marks, and the steps that scholarly publishers can take to protect their interests.
Rick Anderson revisits a 2020 post: One way or another, the #scholcomm community is going to choose either a diversity of publishing models or a monoculture, because it can’t have both. How will this choice be made, and by whom?
A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?
Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.
Deborah Sweet of Cell Press discusses their recently introduced Inclusion and Diversity Statement in this interview with Alice Meadows
If you’re a scholarly and scientific author and you think the open access movement is irrelevant to your interests, think again.