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From Detection to Disclosure — Key Takeaways on AI Ethics from COPE’s Forum

Summing up the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Forum discussion on Emerging AI Dilemmas in Scholarly Publishing, which explored the many challenges AI presents for the scholarly community.

  • By Hong Zhou, Marie Soulière
  • Aug 25, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Rise of the Machine Readers: What They Really Want to Read

As AI becomes a major consumer of research, scholarly publishing must evolve: from PDFs for people to structured, high-quality data for machines.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Aug 21, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All

Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholarly communication.

  • By Amanda Rogers, Beth Richard, Carsten Borchert, Lou Peck, Simon Holt
  • Aug 19, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed

A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.

  • By Leslie D. McIntosh, Will White
  • Aug 4, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research

Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.

  • By Lutz Bornmann, Christian Leibel
  • Jul 29, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Six Things Your Marketing Colleagues Wish You Knew

Industry pros offer a marketing manifesto of sorts, to help our non-marketing colleagues see behind the curtain and understand how to best leverage these critical team members.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Jul 28, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Carsten Buhr

Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, 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
  • Jul 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — The Accessibility Illusion: When AI Simplification Fails the Users With Cognitive Disabilities

Guest blogger Hema Thakur shares results of her experiment using AI to improve the accessibility of peer review feedback — her findings may concern you!

  • By Hema Thakur
  • Jul 22, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Protecting Progress: The Case for Staying Committed to Sustainability in 2025

Level 3 of STM’s SDG roadmap has launched, reminding us that academic publishers have both the responsibility & opportunity to be catalysts for positive, global change.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Jul 21, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post: Gatekeepers of Meaning — Peer Review, AI, and the Fight for Human Attention

Guest blogger, Ashutosh Ghildiyal, asks: Is AI for us, or are we for AI? In the all-important context of peer review, can we leverage AI to amplify human thought rather than replace us?

  • By Ashutosh Ghildiyal
  • Jul 17, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — When the Front Door Moves: How AI Threatens Scholarly Communities and What Publishers Can Do

AI-enabled discovery and summarization tools seem like magic to end users, but for publishers it looks like disintermediation.

  • By Ben Kaube, Steve Smith
  • Jul 7, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Fiesole 2025: A Step Back to Move Forward in the Era of ‘Postnormal Publishing’

A report from this year’s Fiesole Retreat: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future.

  • By Eleonora Colangelo
  • Jul 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Ask The Chefs — New Court Decisions Issued in Cases Addressing AI Training and Copyright

We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on two important court decisions on the legality of using copyrighted materials for AI training.

  • By Roy Kaufman, Rick Anderson, Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 30, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Are AI Bots Knocking Digital Collections Offline? An Interview with Michael Weinberg

AI Bots are overwhelming server capacity and impeding access to collections. How big is the problem and what solutions exist?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jun 23, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

We Need AI Standards for Scholarly Publishing: A NISO Workshop Report

NISO issues a report on workshops looking to improve the efficiency of working with AI systems in scholarly publishing

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 12, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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