A Look Under the Hood of Scopus AI: An Interview with Maxim Khan
To learn about how Scopus AI works under the hood, we interview Elsevier Sr. VP of Analytics Products and Data Platform, Maxim Khan.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Michael Levine-Clark
In today’s Chef de Cuisine article, Robert Harington talks with Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of the University of Denver Libraries. The University Libraries are currently ranked as the #3 “best college library” by Princeton Review.
Peer Review Week 2024: “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”
We’re delighted to reveal the eagerly awaited theme for this year’s Peer Review Week, Innovation and Technology in Peer Review.
How We Work, AI, and Human Engagement
In this post Robert Harington looks to Hannah Arendt, and her 1958 book, The Human Condition for help in understanding the nature of how we work, asking how an AI world may affect the nature of our work.
AI and Scholarly Societies
Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future.
Generative AI, ChatGPT, and Google Bard: Evaluating the Impact and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing
To identify both benefits and risks of generative AI for our industry, we tested ChatGPT and Google Bard for authoring, for submission and reviews, for publishing, and for discovery and dissemination.
Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?
The current uproar over artificial intelligence does not show us what the future of AI will look like, but rather how a human population falls into predictable patterns as it contemplates any new development: we are observing not AI but ourselves observing AI.
Guest Post — Making Research Accessible: The arXiv Accessibility Forum Moved the Action Upstream
Shamsi Brinn (UX Manager at arXiv) and Bill Kasdorf (Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC) discuss the recent Accessibility Forum hosted by arXiv. Over 2,000 people registered for the Forum; over 350 attended the live event; and hundreds more are accessing the recently published videos.
The Supreme Court Case of Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: What, if Anything, Does it Mean to Artificial Intelligence?
The Supreme Court has ruled in the Andy Warhol–Prince fair use case. What does this mean for scholarly communications, and the reuse of materials for AI training?
A Serious Game for Scholarly Publishers: The STM Trends 2027 Helps Publishers Level Up
@TAC_NISO describes STM Association 2027 Trends report released Thursday. It helps people grasp the direction and impact of technology changes in our community so they can “level up”
Textpocalypse: A Literary Scholar Eyes the “Grey Goo” of AI
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.
Guest Post – GPT-3 Wrote an Entire Paper on Itself. Should Publishers be Concerned?
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.
Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations — Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions
Five pending cases may set new ground rules for use of training materials for AI. Here is what to watch.
Ask the Fellows: SSP 2022 Annual Meeting
We ask the 2022 Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellows to offer their thoughts on this year’s Annual Meeting.
Guest Post — Event Streaming Start-Ups: A Strategic Overview and Taxonomy
The value of streaming video as a genre of scholarly communication is just being established. Today, Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger profile the leading start-ups in this space.