July 26, 2024
Arash Abizadeh, in a sharp Guardian piece—a follow up to the mass resignation of Abizadeh and co-editors from Wiley’s Philosophy & Public Affairs: […] as editors of one of our field’s leading journals, we feel a strong responsibility to help build collective...
July 25, 2024
Beth Montague-Hellen, in an interesting Insights piece: When discussing AI, much time has been spent on identifying how the technology can be of use, where it might be dangerous and how we may want to restrict or enable it. There has been considerable discussion about...
July 24, 2024
PKP’s Alec Smecher, with a great layman’s-terms overview of JATS XML: While it has been hard for publishers with limited resources to adopt, and there is an exclusionary aspect to that, JATS has forced scholars to consider what scholarly documents are made out of, how...
July 8, 2024
Axios, from March, on a startup that’s building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content for AI training: TollBit, co-founded by Toast alumni Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi, basically lets publishers make their verified content available to AI companies,...
July 2, 2024
A fascinating idea and project from the estimable Public Knowledge Project (PKP): We are calling it a publication facts label (PFL). It is intended to appear with each research article [and] emulates the look and feel of the Nutrition Facts label on food products in...
June 26, 2024
Matt Wall on Medium, applying Cory Doctorow’s theory of enshittification to scholarly publishers: Here’s the thing though, the final part of Doctorow’s enshittification process as applied to online platforms is “then they die”. There currently seems to be little...
