Implications for publisher platforms as users increasingly rely on AI summaries and zero-click search. Insights from OUP below and more data here www.bain.com/insights/goo...

I loved Kamran Abbasi's #R2Rconf call to action to bring solutions and hope in the face of a 'multicrisis' - hope without commitment and effort will not suffice

A good, quick read about the value of challenging legacy assumptions and standard ways of working in favour of original thinking, in order to build better products medium.com/@escane/doub...

Sheffield, Surrey and York all cancelling their Elsevier deals. I'm curious as to whether this is budget pressure alone or also value/model mismatch. Interesting to see if/how this trend develops.

Interesting range of opinions on an AI-generated textbook and potential for AI tools to reduce the social barrier that some students might face when asking humans for help. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Really interesting to read about the University of Calgary library chatbot

Emerald Open Lab for experimenting with business models and services - looking forward to seeing what comes of this www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/opinion-and-...

Great to see @cadmoremedia.bsky.social expand their video publishing services with this partnership with IET.tv's video production capabilities cadmore.media/blog/cadmore...

$3.3M grant for PLOS to allow Gates-funded authors to publish APC-free and to support PLOS to invest in funder-related metadata and open peer review alongside preprints theplosblog.plos.org/2024/12/plos...