ASM built AI-generated alt text into its XML proofing workflow, working backwards from publication so authors can review and edit image descriptions late in the process (where compliance is realistic) rather than being instructed up front. After a…
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Book Sprints facilitates groups of domain experts — often not professional writers — to write a book collaboratively in five days by stripping out the friction of a conventional publishing process. Under Barbara Rühling, it has run experiments…
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Elsevier’s Check Integrity screens article submissions for potential breaches of publishing ethics policies — unauthorised authorship changes, editorial conflicts of interest and similar — flagging concerns to specialist integrity analysts before publication. Expanded across nearly 2,000 Elsevier journals…
Clara (short for clarity) is the AI data steward at the heart of Frontiers’ FAIR² Data Management platform, launched on Open Data Day 2025. Researchers upload a dataset and Clara helps with metadata, curation and preparation; the output…
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Claude Science is Anthropic’s AI workbench for scientists, launched in beta on 30 June 2026. It pulls the fragmented tools of research — PubMed, Jupyter, R, cluster terminals, 60+ scientific databases — into one environment where a generalist…
ClockHive is a hackathon-built experiment: a preprint server whose target users are AI agents, not humans. The website has no buttons and no human login — everything happens through the API, so autonomous ‘open claw’ agents (which run…
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CompassAI, from Cabells, recommends journals from a submitted abstract: it builds a semantic profile of the research and matches it against Cabells Journalytics, a curated database of verified journals. Results come grouped into strategic categories — best matches,…
Andri Johnston, Digital Sustainability Lead at Cambridge University Press, discusses CUP’s digital sustainability work and the environmental impact of AI in publishing — one of the few publisher voices addressing AI’s footprint directly.Notes & quotes[From the podcast Helen…
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IOP Publishing’s Duplicate Review Checker uses machine learning to find reviewer reports with significant content overlap — catching both reports reused across manuscripts and reports submitted under different reviewer names. Flagged reports (above a 60% similarity threshold) go…
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The BMJ and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center built an editorial assistant that helps journal editors screen submitted manuscripts — supporting decisions about which papers to send for peer review, which to reject, and why. Written up…
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