Generative AI in Scholarly Publishing – Exploring Opportunities & Addressing Threats
Generative AI is rapidly advancing with models like ChatGPT, LLaMA, and BERT, driven by progress in deep learning, computing power, and extensive datasets. These advancements enable AI to generate increasingly sophisticated and human-like outputs, impacting industries from virtual assistants to autonomous vehicles and smart homes. Beyond individual applications, AI is… Read More
Tackling publication manipulation at scale: Hindawi’s journey and lessons for academic publishing
In today's scholarly publishing world, researchers are contending with increasing pressures to publish, creating a susceptibility to unethical manipulation through papermills, peer review rings, and other forms of fraud. This whitepaper outlines the disruptions Hindawi faced and dives into the ongoing efforts to investigate and rectify the scholarly record. Plus,… Read More
Generative AI in Scholarly Communications: Ethical and Practical Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI in the Publication Process
STM published a white paper that discusses how STM publishers contribute to the ethical and trustworthy development, deployment, and application of AI. That paper addresses both the potential opportunities and risks concerning the application of AI within the scholarly ecosystem and defines best-practice principles for an ethical, trustworthy, and human-centric… Read More
Access to Science and Scholarship: Key Questions about the Future of Research Publishing
The whitepaper addresses the critical interplay between the health of the research enterprise and the dynamics of the scientific and scholarly publishing ecosystem. Over the past two decades, changes in publishing models, driven by policies, technology, and market forces, have led to disruptions within the academic publishing landscape. The Executive… Read More
Going for gold: exploring the reach and impact of Gold open access articles in hybrid journals
Springer Nature’s 2018 white paper, Assessing the open access effect for hybrid journals, highlighted ‘the OA effect’ and showed that OA articles in hybrid journals achieve greater impact, usage and reach than comparative non-OA articles. Going for gold: exploring the reach and impact of Gold open access articles in hybrid… Read More
Harnessing Science for a Sustainable Future: Narrowing the Policy, Research, and Community Divide
This white paper presents key takeaways and recommendations from a virtual conference held last year that brought together policymakers, government representatives, UN officials, and leading researchers from over 100 countries around the world to discuss the role of science in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), how to better integrate… Read More
How scholarly publishers can use Agile methodologies to respond to change more effectively: New White Paper (scholasticahq.com)
As the rate of evolution in the scholarly communication landscape continues to accelerate, how can journal publishers become more readily adaptive? The answer to that question may start with changing the way they approach project management. This new white paper from Scholastica explores how implementing principles of Agile project management,… Read More
Researchers at the Centre: Content Discoverability, Visibility, and Access
In March 2019, Springer Nature and ResearchGate entered a unique partnership to explore new ways for researchers to share content. The goal was to combine Springer Nature’s expertise in publishing high-quality research with ResearchGate’s online platform of millions of scientists, and deliver a better experience for the communities served by… Read More
Achieving an equitable transition to open access for researchers in lower and middle- income countries
The Research4Life initiative has expanded in scope since 2002 to provide free or very low-cost access to the current research literature in over 10,000 registered institutions in eligible countries, helping address research inequalities from the readership side. Given an increasing focus on UN SDGs and a global transition in scholarly… Read More
Expand your reach to global markets through AI-based localization
One of the challenges in content localization is capturing the subtleties of the original language (intonation, volume, etc ) that give the complete meaning of words. Without this, what is truly meant to be communicated may literally be “lost in translation”. With Emotion Mapping, different degrees of pitch, tone, volume… Read More
