The TIB AIssistant is a prototype research platform from TIB, the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, that uses large language models to support researchers across the research life cycle through a set of assistants that each…
TollBit is a company that connects publishers with AI companies, letting publishers monitor AI bot traffic to their sites and charge for it, while AI companies license content without negotiating separate deals. It launched its marketplace in October…
Journal Finder is a feature of Trinka, a grammar and writing assistant for academic and technical writing from Crimson AI. It recommends journals for a manuscript by comparing the concepts in the paper with millions of publications, drawing…
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Undermind is an AI research assistant from Undermind, founded by two MIT quantum physics PhDs, Joshua Ramette (chief executive) and Tom Hartke (chief technology officer), and backed by Y Combinator. A user describes their research and Undermind asks…
Veracity for Publishing is a fact-checking and review tool for academic publishing from Grounded AI, which describes it as a “reviewer zero” that works before peer review. It verifies claims and citations, flags citations that cannot be matched…
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The Web of Science Research Assistant is a generative AI tool from Clarivate that pairs a chat interface with the Web of Science knowledge graph and the Web of Science Core Collection. Clarivate released it on 4 September…
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Wiley announced AI Gateway on 14 October 2025, describing it as the industry’s first AI-native research intelligence platform. It is a single endpoint, built on the Model Context Protocol, that gives AI tools access to scholarly content from…
Wiley announced its AI Partnerships co-innovation program on 17 October 2024 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, to develop new AI applications, assistants and agents with partner companies that support researchers and practitioners. The programme launched with Potato, which…
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Wiley announced on 5 May 2025 a generative AI agent for scientific literature search, built with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on AWS’s Bedrock Agents technology and released as part of an open source toolkit that AWS assembled for…
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Wiley announced its Papermill Detection Service on 13 March 2024 at the London Book Fair, after internal beta tests, with the next phase of testing planned with Sage and IEEE. The service runs six tools: comparison with known…
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In the same Book Industry Study Group webinar on 23 October 2024, Erin Servais showed how she uses ChatGPT to write Word macros for editing tasks. Her example macro highlights “Apple” with a capital letter in green and…
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In 2021 Karger Publishers offered authors submitting to 14 of its journals the chance to have their manuscript checked by Writefull’s automated language proofreading before submitting it. Authors who took up the offer got their manuscript back with…
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xPeerd is an online service that produces AI-generated peer review reports for manuscripts, aimed at publishers, authors, conferences and universities. Publishers use it for editorial decisions and for detecting fraudulent or biased reviews, and authors use it for…
ZAIA is the AI assistant for research and discovery from Zendy, a platform whose library covers journals, proceedings and e-books, and it gives reference-backed answers to research questions, with each response linking to clickable references. Zendy describes ZAIA…
