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...
February 21, 2023
Alex McLean, writing for on his blog about the treasure hunt required to find OA copies of his new book, despite a $15,000 subvention to MIT Press: Although all copies of the book are openly licensed into the creative commons, some are nonetheless paywalled. Indeed,...
