‘The surprising history of abstracts’

Aileen Fyfe, in a delightful, fittingly brief history of the abstract [paywalled, alas]: Many scientists will recognize the sentiment expressed by Royal Society president William H. Bragg in the 1930s: it is vital to have well-written abstracts that can be understood...

‘Tracking the Licensing of Scholarly Content to LLMs’

Ithaka’s Roger C. Schonfeld, announcing a an AI licensing-deal tracker on The Scholarly Kitchen: In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs (Large Language Models). These deals...