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Publishing Industry Perspectives

Here are some updates and opinions related to the scholarly publishing industry.

The rise of China’s research: a global opportunity

This editorial from The Lancet notes how China has risen to prominence an scientific publishing in recent years,

Elsevier’s LeapSpace is now live

With 18+ million full-text research articles and books already included, Elsevier’s research-grade, AI-assisted workspace, is now live and available to customers

Science is Drowning in AI Slop

This article in The Atlantic summarizes some of scholarly publishing’s biggest challenges with generative AI

Why scholarly publishing needs a neutral governance body for the AI age

Darrell Gunter explains why checks and balances designed for a time before generative AI are no longer sufficient to maintain trust in academic publishing.

A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI

With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help.