Separately, both open research and AI are considered disrupters, causes of disorder in the normal continuance of scholarly publishing. But approaching them in a synchronized way can offer more productivity gains and efficiencies than taking them on individually.
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There is a particular reading experience associated with annotated editions of classic literature. How do publishers enhance that experience?
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Nature provides the answer to a question that has certainly been on your mind — how would a starfish wear pants?
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We all know the journals market has rapidly consolidated over recent years. But where’s the data? I set out to find some numbers to put behind the common sense.
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Functional silos lead to customer data silos. Can you get a full view of customer engagement without re-architecting your whole organization?
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Some beautiful winners in this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion video microscopy competition.
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A mixed bag post from us — can you separate out the significance of research results from their validity? What will the collapse of the Humanities mean for scholarly publishing writ large? And a new draft set of recommended practices for communicating retractions, removals, and expressions of concern.
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Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future.
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It’s that time of year again when the big science prizes are awarded. No, not those prizes.
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How machines learn, as demonstrated by a pile of matchboxes playing tic-tac-toe.
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The Curse of Knowledge is when we assume everyone else understands what we’re talking about, when they don’t. Good communication happens when we have the courage to make it simple.
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Inequities are rife in the research process, starting with the pre-award process. Based on feedback and input from researchers, research managers, and others a new report looks at the challenges and makes recommendations for how funders and institutions can address them.
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When the University of Michigan was forced to disconnect from the internet last week, it resulted in disruptions to several key services it provides to the broader research community, such as the University of Michigan Press, HathiTrust, and ICPSR. What can we learn from this experience?
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Could the failure of a journal to visibly correct known errors in a publication, thereby propagating false information, be considered disinformation?
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Was a recent Scholarly Kitchen piece analyzing the capabilities of ChatGPT a fair test? What happens if you run a similar test with an improved prompt on LLMs that are internet connected and up to date?
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