June 23, 2023
From the press release announcing Clarivate’s partnership with AI21 Labs (“a pioneer in generative artificial intelligence”): The collaboration will integrate large language models into solutions from Clarivate, to enable intuitive academic conversational search and...
June 23, 2023
Simmons University, a Boston women’s college, is cutting literature, philosophy, and sociology, among other majors—according to Inside Higher Ed. Enrollment is way down, but another challenge is the institution’s for-profit online-ed “partner”: President Lynn Perry...
June 22, 2023
Steven Inchcoombe, “Chief Publishing Officer” at Springer Nature, in a January Scholarly Kitchen interview, asked what publishing innovation he’s most proud of: For me, I look at the work we have been doing using AI to enable summarizations (for different levels of...
May 30, 2023
From the Open Access Week announcement: “Community over Commercialization” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 23-29). This theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests...
March 4, 2023
The Ivy Plus Libraries have come out swinging against APCs in their Nelson Memo statement: It is in that spirit that we want to highlight the dangers of allowing the interests of commercial publishers to dictate the paths available to implementing this bold new...
