Ensuring attribution is critical when licensing content to AI developers
Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tasha Mellins-Cohen of COUNTER
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of COUNTER Metrics (formerly Project COUNTER), which plays a critical role in enabling consistent usage metrics reporting.
Guest Post – Making Sense of Open Access Business Models
A classification scheme for open access business models.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Alicia Wise of CLOCKSS
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Alicia Wise of CLOCKSS, the digital archive for academic publishers and research libraries.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Kate Wittenberg and Karen Hanson of Portico, the community-supported preservation archive.
Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Barbara Kline Pope
Robert Harington talks to Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.
Protecting Commercial AI Rights is Harder than You Think — EU Edition
Legislation often lags technological advances. The EU’s Digital Single Market Copyright Directive leaves many open questions regarding AI text- and data-mining.
Approaching Artificial Intelligence and Open Research in Sync: Opportunities and Challenges
Separately, both open research and AI are considered disrupters, causes of disorder in the normal continuance of scholarly publishing. But approaching them in a synchronized way can offer more productivity gains and efficiencies than taking them on individually.
Chefs Panel Discusses AI, Integrity and Open Content in Frankfurt
A report of the Chef’s panel on AI, Open content, and research integrity during the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Will Building LLMs Become the New Revenue Driver for Academic Publishing?
Are scholarly publishers primed to become the critical content suppliers for the big Generative AI companies?
What Can I Do with This? Indicators of Usage Rights in the User Interface
Inconsistency in location/format of usage rights information and CC badges across formats and platforms makes it challenging to discover if/how articles can be reused. @lisalibrarian
A Failure to Communicate: Indicators of Open Access in the User Interface
Though open access indicators within a given publishing platform are relatively consistent, significant inconsistency across platforms likely creates user confusion.
8 Months On: Ukraine Still Needs Our Support
We are into the 8th month of Russia’s war against Ukraine. How has the scholarly publishing sector continued to respond?
Guest Post — Missing Revenue in the Global Flip: Getting the Open Access Math Right
A flip to open access requires a holistic view of a journal’s incoming revenue. Are there important contributions to revenue that disappear with open access, and how can those funds be replaced?
Guest Post – Quantifying the Impact of the OSTP Policy
The new US policy on access to research publications suggests an acceleration in the shift toward open access. Christos Petrou examines what that would look like in different fields and for different journals.