The MIT Press surveyed book authors on attitudes towards LLM training practices. In Part 1 of this 2 part post, we discuss the results: authors are not opposed to generative AI per se, but they are strongly opposed to unregulated, extractive practices and worry about the long-term impacts of unbridled generative AI development on the scholarly and scientific enterprise.
Libraries and publishers represent the interests of thousands of authors, readers, scientists, researchers, students, and lifelong learners. Today, we stand united to face the mounting risks to public trust and the social benefit that research delivers.
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.
On September 20, 2024, MIT Press hosted a workshop, Access to Science & Scholarship: An Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy. I interviewed Amy Brand to discuss the goals and outcomes of the workshop.
This episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast serves as a primer on university presses: how the university press model and structure can differ or align from the traditional for-profit model, what books and journal operations look like in this environment, and how to break into the university press world. Dawn Durante, the Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director at the University of North Carolina Press addresses these key themes and guides listeners to a plethora of resources to learn more. Hosted by Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science).
An interview with Ganna Kharlamova, who is working to changing the way scholarly communications and publishing are conducted in Ukraine.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Wendy Queen, Director, Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world.
Robert Harington talks to Dr. Susan King of Rockefeller University Press (RUP), in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
Robert Harington talks to Dr. Amy Brand of MIT Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
Robert Harington talks to Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.
Robert Harington talks to Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.
There is a particular reading experience associated with annotated editions of classic literature. How do publishers enhance that experience?
A panel attending the 2023 AUPresses Meeting hosted a conversation about optimizing books metadata and measuring its impact on search experiences in the mainstream web.
A new research study finds that open access monographs can generate significant revenue — both on the print side and digitally.
Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.