(30 Nov 2024) In a report published today, with funding from STM Solutions and six of its member organizations, we explore how key stakeholders—publishers, technology disruptors, librarians, and scholars—think generative AI will change their practices and processes. The consensus among the individuals with whom we spoke is that generative AI will enable efficiency gains across the publication process. As the report considers, certain aspects of scholarly publishing seem more likely than others to see significant change, leaving open the possibility that generative AI creates incremental change in some areas while disrupting others.
A Third Transformation? Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing is designed as a companion or addendum to the larger Second Digital Transformation of Scholarly Publishing report published in January 2024. To facilitate reading the two reports together, we decided to closely follow the original report’s internal structure. As such, today’s report addresses many of the same themes to provide analysis of the present landscape and recommendations to address key needs:
- Consolidation and competition within the scholarly publishing ecosystem
- Research integrity and establishing a trusted global public good
- Making meaning from the scholarly record
- Supporting new business models
The announcement in full is here.
