One of the earliest Scholarcy interfaces, from 2018
The current Scholarcy interface (2025) – quite a change
Phil Gooch, founder of the successful startup Scholarcy, was the highlight of the first-ever AI, Publishing and EdTech Meetup (London, February 2025). Each …
A suggested flowchart for using genAI in systematic reviews (from the Search Solutions 2024 conference)
If the Search Solutions conference is to be believed, there isn’t much hope for genAI. This conference is always worth attending, because of its unique relaxed …
You don’t need telling that there is a multiplicity of views on AI in scholarly publishing. The annual NEC Publishing Conference (London, 5 November 2024) was no exception. Among the many statements about AI …
All conferences follow a similar format. If the conference is big enough, you have some plenary sessions, plus some smaller-scale seminars and break-out sessions. You might have workshops, and most likely a …
Reading Time: 3minutesFrom David De Roure’s presentation: the differing popularity of the terms “artificial inteligence” and “machine learning” over the past seventy or so years
Conferences and presentations about AI are everywhere these days, but this half-day event, part of the AI …
For anyone whose interest is primarily scholarly publishing, the London Book Fair is a rather tantalizing affair. There is a lot of noise, and crowds in all the aisles (over 30,000 attendees, according to the organisers), but the bulk of the …
Reading Time: 5minutesHow one university got three different results to the question “how many OA articles did we publish in 2022?” Graphic by Ben Rawlins of University of Kentucky. The “sources” are three different aggregation services, Dimensions, Web of Science, and Taylor and …
Reading Time: 5minutesA delivery robot: an example of innovation in practice (Image: Starship Technologies)
How do you communicate, or encourage, technical innovation in academic publishing? This is something the STM Association has been grappling with for years. Innovation is a good thing, but …
Reading Time: 5minutesCreating new knowledge with AI: an illustration by Paul Cleverly of a tool based on text embedding that plots two variables against each other to enable new knowledge in geoscience to be generated.
