SEO Still Matters: Building Blocks for the Future of Content Discoverability
As the search and user behavior landscapes undergo dramatic evolutions, marketers and others are left to wonder what SEO means for publishers now.
Guest Post — Five Years of GetFTR: A discussion with Librarians on Access, Integrity, and Collaboration
After five years of GetFTR, four librarians discuss how it is working in practice, its value to libraries and researchers, and what opportunities lie ahead.
Three Years After the Launch of ChatGPT, Do We Know Where This Is Heading?
Nearly three years after ChatGPT’s debut, generative AI continues to reshape scholarly publishing. The sector has moved from experimentation toward integration, with advances in ethical writing tools, AI-driven discovery, summarization, and automated peer review. While workflows are becoming more efficient, the long-term impact on research creation and evaluation remains uncertain.
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.
Guest Post — Beyond Classification: The Human Cost of Library and Information Labor Under Digital Capitalism
In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices — protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed citizenship itself.
Guest Post — A Smarter Way to License Research Articles for AI
If LLMs are the future of information discovery, valuable scholarly content risks being left behind — unless we build a bridge with better licensing.
Reflections on Shared Infrastructure and Distinctive Collections
Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.
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.
Web-scale Institutional Search: How are Vendors Responding to ODI Recommendations?
Providers of library discovery services reflect on the impact and value of NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative.
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?
Music Paralysis as We Age
When do we stop making the effort to find new music?
The Impact of AI on Information Discovery: From Information Gathering to Knowledge Application
In this post – the first of two discussing artificial intelligence and information discovery – we explore the evolution of information discovery, its role in the research journey, and how it can be applied to help researchers and publishers alike.
Guest Post — Mental Health Awareness Mondays: A Brief Guide to Mental Health Taxonomies
An important part of mental health awareness is knowing what resources are available. Here a look at taxonomies and classification systems.
Guest Post — Improving Research Assessment One Tool at a Time: An Interview with Euan Adie of Overton
How can we measure the impact of research papers on influencing public policy? An interview with Euan Adie of Overton.
Let’s Be Cautious As We Cede Reading to Machines
AI might help with the deluge of content, but there are problems when we rely on machines to think for us.