🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar is out: https://substack.com/@pubtechradar/p-202950318. Contents include:
📰 News: PLOS’s move to Janeway for submissions, Google letting publishers opt out of AI Overviews, Company of Biologists’ Fast & Fair trial cutting peer review decisions from 37.7 days to 5.5. BookStories (‘openscience.works), one of seven projects on the Dutch “Renew the Book 2026” longlist.
📈 Stats: ScholarOne’s Future of Peer Review 2026 report, BMJ’s bot traffic running at 289x normal levels over 16 days, Anthropic surveying 1,260 social scientists (81% have tried AI chatbots, 20% use coding agents), Wiley’s Emerald acquisition working out to about $86k in cost synergies per employee, if my maths is right.
🤖 AI: Christina Spencer on JSTOR’s AI interfaces, The Economist prepping for two versions of the web, Tony Alves‘s PurePub.ai write-up, Mark Riley on news as an “explainer engine,” Mark Williams on publishing’s moral circle around creative labour vs everyone else, Simon Linacre asking whether AI might kill off papermills, Thibault GEOUI, PhD on rethinking validation in scientific publishing, Todd Toler on proprietary AI fragmentation, HKUST Library’s GenAI tools snapshot via Aaron Tay, Ithaka S+R’s LibGuide on AI’s environmental impact.
📅 Events: Cambridge AI meetup on hallucination (25 June), BookTech Collective Remote Con.
PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 43
