November 14, 2023
From SPARC North America’s overview of its important new report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect data tracking: By analyzing the privacy practices of the world’s largest publisher, the report describes how user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library...
November 2, 2023
On Tuesday—Halloween here in the US—cOAlition S released a new open access blueprint, one that, in effect, proposes to dismantle the prevailing journal system. Under an anodyne title (“Toward Responsible Publishing”), the group of (mostly) European state funders and...
October 30, 2023
Adam Hyde, John Chodacki, and Paul Shanon, writing on FORCE11’s Upstream on seven key roles that “AI” could play in a scholarly publishing workflow: Extract: Identify and isolate specific entities or data points within the content. Validate: Verify the accuracy and...
October 20, 2023
From Retraction Watch: An article that proposed potential benefits of private equity firms investing in autism service providers has been removed from the journal in which it was published. The author is founder and CEO of the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence...
October 17, 2023
My colleague Sue Curry Jansen and I, writing for The Hedgehog Review draft the neglected philosopher Susanne Langer as AI critic: Our modest objective here is to add a historical dimension to the critical toolkit by highlighting the work of a profoundly...
October 12, 2023
Announced in July, Springer Nature’s acquisition of protocols.io didn’t attract much attention: protocols.io will form part of Springer Nature’s expanding Solutions business which is committed to providing researchers, and their institutions, with a comprehensive...
