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Archives: Generative AI

Responding to the Threat of Zero-Click Search and AI Summaries: How Do We Tame The Crocodile?

AI-driven zero-click search is widening the gap between visibility and usage, threatening publisher revenue, research integrity, and trust. How should we respond?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Feb 4, 2026
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Keywords Are Not Dead — But Discovery Is No Longer Just Search

As with previous shifts in content discovery, today’s winners will be those who understand the strengths and limits of AI search, and design systems that let researchers move fluidly between precision and synthesis.

  • By Hong Zhou, Hiba Bishtawi
  • Jan 6, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post: Classifying AI Use in Manuscript Preparation – A Recommendation

The STM Association offers a classification scheme for the various possible uses of AI, including GenAI, in the preparation of manuscripts.

  • By Henning Schoenenberger, Kiera McNeice, Joris van Rossum
  • Sep 23, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post – ODI Survey on AI and Web-Scale Discovery

NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.

  • By Ken Varnum
  • Sep 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Top Ten Challenges, Needs, and Goals of Publishers – and How AI Can Help in Digital Transformation and the Open Science Movement

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?

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Nov 5, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — How Generative AI Could Transform Scholarly Publishing: Themes and Reflections from Interviews with Industry Leaders

A new study from Ithaka S+R explores: How will generative AI transform scholarly communication and where will change be most rapid and revolutionary?

  • By Tracy Bergstrom, Dylan Ruediger
  • Oct 30, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post: Exploring the “Hopes and Fears” About Generative Artificial Intelligence in Web Scale Discovery

A new survey seeks to better understand the risks and benefits of GenAI in the discovery ecosystem.

  • By Ken Varnum
  • Oct 17, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — The Case For Not Citing Chatbots As Information Sources (Part II)

Citing chatbots as information sources offer little in terms of promoting smart use of generative AI and could also be damaging.

  • By Leticia Antunes Nogueira, Jan Ove Rein
  • Jun 20, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Chatbots: To Cite Or Not To Cite? (Part I)

If you use a chatbot in writing a text, and are discouraged from listing it as a coauthor, should you attribute the relevant passages to the tool via citation instead? Is it appropriate to cite chatbots as information sources?

  • By Leticia Antunes Nogueira, Jan Ove Rein
  • Jun 19, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Towards Conversational Discovery: New Discovery Applications for Scholarly Information in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

How is generative AI moving us towards conversational discovery and what does this mean for publishing and future trends in information discovery?

  • By Hong Zhou, Hiba Bishtawi
  • Jun 4, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Generative AI: The Indispensable Role of BERT in Scholarly Publishing

ChatGPT has popularized generative AI, but interpretive AI has quietly remained in the shadows. Interpretive AI offers profound insights into content and audience engagement, a critical tool for publishers aiming to harness the full potential of AI.

  • By Dustin Smith
  • Jan 11, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Hanging in the Balance: Generative AI Versus Scholarly Publishing

Balancing the anxiety and the excitement over the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in scholarly publishing.

  • By Gwen Weerts
  • Jan 8, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Scholarly Communications Meets your Christmas Cracker

It’s been “the year of generative AI”, so Charlie Rapple asked ChatGPT to write some cracker-standard Christmas jokes with a scholarly communications theme.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Dec 22, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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