Observations from the Charleston Vendor Showcase

Reflecting on the Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase @lisalibrarian share what she did — and didn’t — see.

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Approaching Artificial Intelligence and Open Research in Sync: Opportunities and Challenges

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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AI Will Lead Us to Need More Garbage-subtraction.

Generative AI wants to make information cheap, but will people want to read it? Are we ready for more productive writers?

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Introducing Kitchen Essentials — Interviews with the Scholarly Infrastructure Community

Today, Alice Meadows and Roger Schonfeld introduce a new interview series – Kitchen Essentials – featuring leaders of some of the key scholarly infrastructure organizations globally.

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Can You Really Know Your Customer If You Only See Them One Silo At A Time?

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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Chefs Panel Discusses AI, Integrity and Open Content in Frankfurt

A report of the Chef’s panel on AI, Open content, and research integrity during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Worth the Time? A Critical Look at the Value of Twitter for Journals

With yet another stumble from Twitter/X, Angela Cochran looks at the numbers and asks whether all the efforts journals have put into building and maintaining journal Twitter accounts have been worth it.

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Guest Post — Reflecting on a Decade with the Open Discovery Initiative: Insights from IEEE

Julie Zhu reflects on the IEEE’s journey with the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) and the benefits of ODI conformance statements.

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The Peer Review Renaissance: An Urgent Call for Transformation

Are there enough reviewers though to meet demand and is the peer review process efficient enough to handle the sheer volume of papers being published? How can a combination of human expertise and AI make the peer review process more efficient?

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AI and Scholarly Societies

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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Libraries, Archives, Choice and Red Envelopes: The Growth of Streaming, the Decline of Choice, and the Death of the Red Envelope

The role of libraries and archives as streaming grows, choice declines, and the death of the red envelopes arrives.

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GPT, Large Language Models, and the Trough of Disillusionment

In 2023, AI has been back in the news in a big way. Large Language Models and ChatGPT threatened our’s and many other industries with huge disruption. As with so many threatened techno-shocks, a large degree of this one was hype, but what will happen after the hype fades. What, if anything, will be the lasting legacy of ChatGPT?

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Ending Human-Dependent Peer Review

Human-dependent peer review is inequitable, suffers from injustice, and is potentially unsustainable. Here’s why we should replace it (eventually) with AI-based peer review.

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