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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Guest Post — Reputation and Publication Volume at MDPI and Frontiers

Compared to their peak levels, publication volume has declined at MDPI by 27% and at Frontiers by 36%. What’s behind these declines, and how do they reflect the inherent risk in the APC open access model and different approaches to reputation management?

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Publishers, Don’t Use AI Detection Tools!

The challenges offered by artificial intelligence require a different approach than that seen for plagiarism detection.

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Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works

An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress

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Guest Post — Can Inadequate Corrections Turn Misinformation into Disinformation?

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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Generative AI, ChatGPT, and Google Bard: Evaluating the Impact and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing

To identify both benefits and risks of generative AI for our industry, we tested ChatGPT and Google Bard for authoring, for submission and reviews, for publishing, and for discovery and dissemination.

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Science and Truth, Stanford President and Student Journalism Edition

A world famous scientist and university president brought down by a student journalist’s investigative reporting. But the big story is how we fund and reward ethical research.

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Guest Post — The Nelson Memo and Public Access are Under Attack – Will Powerful Incumbents Come to its Rescue?

The Nelson Memo is being contested. Will the incumbents of the scholarly publishing world stand up for the Memo and fight for its funding?

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The Intelligence Revolution: What’s Happening and What’s to Come in Generative AI

An update on how generative AI has progressed and how it has been applied to research publishing processes since ChatGPT was released, looking at business, application, technology, and ethical aspects of generative AI.

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Guest Post — Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach

New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors.

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Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.

The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.

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SSP Conference Debate: AI and the Integrity of Scholarly Publishing

Will artificial intelligence fatally undermine the integrity of scholarly publishing? A formal debate from the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

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Guest Post — Why Are UK Libraries Signing a Springer-Nature Deal They Don’t Seem to Like?

Libraries continue to sign Transformative Agreements while becoming increasingly convinced that they do not represent the desired transformation. Peter Barr explains why this happens.

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The Supreme Court Case of Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: What, if Anything, Does it Mean to Artificial Intelligence?

The Supreme Court has ruled in the Andy Warhol–Prince fair use case. What does this mean for scholarly communications, and the reuse of materials for AI training?

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