‘The Matthew Effect in AI Summary’

May 19, 2026

Just published in LSE Impact, on the “deep research” summary-and-citation tools from both the AI giants and the likes of Elsevier: At the core of all these tools is a series of verbs: to surface, to rank, to summarise, and to recommend. In this sense the AI products...

‘The Bigger Threat to Books Than Bans’

May 4, 2026

Maria Bustillos, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review in September: US libraries, universities, and bookstores rely for the delivery of books on a small number of very big profit-driven companies, many of them privately held, whose commitment to freedom of...

Waiting for an Open Infrastructure Collective

January 28, 2026

'Invest in Open Infrastructure announces inaugural grantees of the IOI Fund for Network Adoption' This from November, an announcement of the initial pair of grantees from Invest in Open Infrastructure’s (IOI) “fund for network adoption”: Invest in Open Infrastructure...

‘The Past and Present of Peer Review in the Humanities’

January 27, 2026

Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt and Sjang ten Hagen, in their introduction to a recent Minerva special issue: This Special Issue aims to bring these present-day discussions in a productive dialogue with the past, by exploring the relatively recent invention of the anonymous...