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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.

  • By Stephanie Decker
  • Apr 15, 2025
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post:  Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance

I tried three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article.

  • By Marjorie Hlava
  • Mar 11, 2025
  • 23 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Mar 4, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

AI Rights Reservation: Human Readable is Machine Readable — An Interview with Haralambos (“Babis”) Marmanis

“Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language.”

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Feb 17, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 25, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 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: Jagged Edges of Conversational Interfaces Over Scholarly and Professional Content

The gaps in capability of AI will narrow over time, but publishers and end users need education on those gaps to make investment decisions and to confidently utilize Generative AI tools effectively.

  • By Stuart Leitch
  • May 30, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

A Cetacean Alphabet

A new paper uses AI to decipher sperm whale vocalizations.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 10, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles?

Journal articles with ChatGPT authored text are being found. How common is this in the literature? And how, or better yet, when, is this problematic text slipping through to publication?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 20, 2024
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Niko Pfund

Robert Harington talks to Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 29, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI

A data scientist reviews ScopusAI (beta) and shares her analysis of its limitations, reliability, and potential.

  • By Teresa Kubacka
  • Feb 21, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 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

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