The Illusion of Inclusion? Reassessing the Equity of Transformative Agreements in Open Access Publishing

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Open Access and the Search for Sustainable Funding The open access (OA) movement was founded on a simple but transformative principle: scholarly knowledge, particularly research supported by public funding, should be freely accessible to everyone. Over the past two decades, this vision has reshaped scholarly communication by reducing barriers to reading, increasing the visibility of … Read more

The $5,600 Authorship: Inside the Lucrative Black Market of Fake Science

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The Industrialization of Academic Fraud Imagine logging onto a messaging app, scrolling through a list of upcoming scientific publications, and casually purchasing the title of “first author” on a biomedical research paper for a few thousand dollars.  While this sounds like the plot of a dystopian academic thriller, it is the stark reality of modern … Read more

Every Publisher Will Become a Data Company

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Every publisher will becoma a data company

For centuries, publishers have been in the business of creating and distributing content. In the production of books, scholarly journals, newspapers, or magazines, success has traditionally been measured by circulation, subscriptions, book sales, citations, and readership. The product was tangible: a printed book on a shelf or a digital article displayed on a screen. Artificial … Read more

How AI Is Redesigning the Publishing Workflow from Manuscript to Marketplace

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How AI is redesigning the publishing workflow

Introduction Publishing has always been shaped by technology. The printing press enabled mass production. Desktop publishing transformed page design. The internet expanded distribution. Ebooks changed how readers access and consume content. Yet for all these changes, the basic publishing workflow remained largely familiar. Authors wrote manuscripts. Editors refined them. Reviewers evaluated them. Production teams prepared … Read more

AI Copyright Needs Technology, Not More Lawyers

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AI copyright needs technology

Introduction For more than three centuries, copyright has relied on a remarkably simple assumption. Whenever someone wanted to use a protected work, they would first seek permission from its creator or rights holder. If permission was denied, the law provided remedies. If permission was granted, the parties negotiated a license, agreed on compensation, and moved … Read more