April 18, 2024
STM—the Dutch-based trade group and self-proclaimed “standard bearer for the academic publishing industry”—joined over a dozen media-related associations to applaud passage of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act. The reason, of course, is the promise of AI training...
April 17, 2024
Jaap Nieuwenhuis, in a fun piece in The Information Society on paper titles: The question “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” has been asked repeatedly in academic work since 1992, suggesting that it is still unclear whether people (or animals, or cells) should stay or...
April 16, 2024
Times Higher Education, on UK ‘university-business collaborations’ [paywall]: Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show that 76,619 university-business interactions occurred in 2022-23. This was down by 5 per cent from the number registered in...
April 15, 2024
Elsevier’s Judy Verses, in a February interview with The Scholarly Kitchen: At Elsevier we try to support researchers, librarians, academic leaders, funders and governments by combining quality information and data sets with analytical tools to facilitate insights and...
April 11, 2024
Amanda D. Clark, in a February PeerJ study looking at citations in hybrid journals: …. we found that publishing open access in hybrid journals that offer the option confers an average citation advantage to authors of 17.8 citations compared to closed access articles...
