Bust of Cicero, perhaps the most famous Roman orator (Vatican Museums, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Anyone with an interest in humanities studies in the US will have heard of the current struggles over funding and the National Endowment of the Humanities. Joy …
Damian Pattinson’s interview for the ATG Podcast has just been released, and it reveals some fascinating details about his background, and about the eLife publishing model.
It turns out that Damian’s father was a bookseller, so publishing was in the family …
I recently interviewed John Willinsky, best-known for the Public Knowledge Project. What fascinated me was the link between his teaching of reading to young children and his subsequent work in scholarly communications for higher education. You may not immediately …
Steven Gump’s book How to Review Scholarly Books, published just a few weeks ago (June 2025), is a very timely work: it tells you how to write a scholarly review. As the author acknowledged when I interviewed him, this …
If it quacks like a duck, it is a duck [Photo by Christian Bowen on Unsplash]
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, has been the holy grail of AI for many years. Ever since genAI was introduced, there has been increased excitement, …
The R2R workshop on open science created this word cloud rather than a single definition
There are some words and phrases that seem to evade the normal processes of lexicographic assessment: they turn out to have many meanings. One of them …
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 …
The Google Search home screen: is this where academics start their research?
Any academic study that looks at institutional repositories is welcome, so we can get a better idea of how many repositories there are, how they function in different countries, …
Differences between search engines and a genAI interface – from the Fernandes and Blomley presentation
The UKSG Forum (Birmingham, 5 December 2024) provided some remarkably informative sessions about AI, from the perspective from the library, as well as from researchers. As …
