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Creating the Publishing Platforms that Next-Gen Professionals Expect

Will the next generation of professions be impressed with the content platforms and workflow tools we currently have? Angela Cochran imagines a world where we meet the challenge of modernized systems.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Feb 27, 2025
  • 9 Comments

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

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.

  • By Hong Zhou, Hiba Bishtawi
  • Apr 30, 2024
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post — The Truth Is in There: The Library of Babel and Generative AI

The short story “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges provides an opportunity to consider the veracity of AI-generated information.

  • By Isaac Wink
  • Jan 4, 2024
  • 1 Comment

The Intelligence Revolution: What’s Happening and What’s to Come in Generative AI

An update on how generative AI has progressed and how it has been applied to research publishing processes since ChatGPT was released, looking at business, application, technology, and ethical aspects of generative AI.

  • By Hong Zhou
  • Jul 20, 2023
  • 8 Comments

Thinking About ChatGPT and the Future — Where Are We On AI’s Development Curve?

A compilation of links and a video to incisive analyses of ChatGPT and what it means for the future.

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments

The Year in Review: 2022 in The Scholarly Kitchen

Before we launch into 2023, a look back at 2022 in The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 3, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Marketing to the New Generation of Academic Influencers: Mobile First, SEO, Values-led Content and Initiatives

How can publishers ensure that our content and services are found and used by the growing number of Millennials and Generation Z researchers in academia?

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Jun 13, 2022
  • 7 Comments

Actions on Retractions: An Interview with Jodi Schneider

In today’s post, Alice Meadows interviews Jodi Schneider of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign about the work she’s leading to reduce the inadvertent spread of retracted research.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Oct 21, 2021
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Humans are the Loop: Social Solutions to Technological Challenges

From Siri to autonomous vehicles, the magic of tech innovations are wrought by human ingenuity — and setting boundaries around these technologies is a social enterprise, with inherently cultural implications.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Mar 2, 2020
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Back to Basics: When in Doubt, Get Fundamental

Flashy new technologies come and go, but getting back to basics is a reminder that the “killer app” is high-quality content, composed in accordance with established standards for discoverability and accessibility.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Jan 7, 2020
  • 2 Comments

The Need to Simplify Indexing and Data Sharing

Indexing and metadata sharing are the lifeblood of scholarly journals. Even with services and infrastructure available to all journals, the effort needed to participate is not small. Journals that are self-published and on their own platforms need significant resources to implement metadata sharing and depositing. This guest post serves as a case study and provides suggestions for how to make it easier.

  • By Einar Ryvarden
  • Dec 11, 2019
  • 8 Comments

The Joy of Search: A Review

Users need training in the complexities of online search. A new book by Daniel Russell from MIT Press offers solid instruction in how to think about the search process.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Jul 31, 2019
  • 3 Comments

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