July 29, 2024
Janneke Adema and Sam Moore, in one of the very best scholarly articles on academic publishing I’ve read in a long time: [I]f you give scholars (for example) one day of unstructured autonomous time a week to work on scholar led publishing projects, a burgeoning,...
July 26, 2024
Arash Abizadeh, in a sharp Guardian piece—a follow up to the mass resignation of Abizadeh and co-editors from Wiley’s Philosophy & Public Affairs: […] as editors of one of our field’s leading journals, we feel a strong responsibility to help build collective...
July 25, 2024
Beth Montague-Hellen, in an interesting Insights piece: When discussing AI, much time has been spent on identifying how the technology can be of use, where it might be dangerous and how we may want to restrict or enable it. There has been considerable discussion about...
July 24, 2024
PKP’s Alec Smecher, with a great layman’s-terms overview of JATS XML: While it has been hard for publishers with limited resources to adopt, and there is an exclusionary aspect to that, JATS has forced scholars to consider what scholarly documents are made out of, how...
July 8, 2024
Axios, from March, on a startup that’s building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content for AI training: TollBit, co-founded by Toast alumni Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi, basically lets publishers make their verified content available to AI companies,...
