PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 37
Somewhat delayed ‘back to school’ edition. Usual mix of launches, news, AI, and longer reads, somewhat haphazardly collected and curated.| PubTech Radar Scan
Somewhat delayed ‘back to school’ edition. Usual mix of launches, news, AI, and longer reads, somewhat haphazardly collected and curated.| PubTech Radar Scan
Introducing a new series called Big Ideas in Publishing. Plus usual roundup of launches including CompassAI, news, and longer reads relating to academic publishing & technology.| PubTech Radar Scan
New launches include Sleuth AI, Featured Notebooks in NotebookLM, LLM Citation Verifier, and CC Signals from Creative Commons. Also in the mix: AI-written peer review, publisher–AI partnerships, crawler paywalls, metadata infrastructure, stealth prompts in preprints, benchmarking against large models, and a fresh crop of ALPSP Award finalists.| PubTech Radar Scan
New launches dominate this issue: Cashmere, Wax, ScholarlyTrendSpotterGPT, Papercheck, Reviewer Three, JSTOR Seeklight, FAIA, and Imagetwin and more...| PubTech Radar Scan
Open infra blues, phishing alerts, launches (Medical Evidence Project, DocuMark, Preprint Watch, Vibe Coding, 2nd Opinion), AI search impacts, AI longer reads & insights from Aaron Tay.| PubTech Radar Scan
News, launches (ReviewerZero, AI-Powered Publishing: use cases), Research assistants, AI updates, longer reads, & a farewell to Einar Fredriksson.| PubTech Radar Scan
News, some belated launch info (Data Catalyst newsletter, Scinito, Reedy), AI articles, a distillation of SN’s annual report by ChatGPT, longer reads, & copyright deniers bingo.| PubTech Radar Scan
STM Trends, AI search tools, Oversight, FAIR², AI Discovery Assistant, Scite Assistant, ZAIA, AI supply chain snags, Anara, Hum's vision, Michel Upshall on repositories, ShelfImage, and more...| PubTech Radar Scan
Alchemist Review, zero-click journeys, Disentis Roadmap, new IOI Fund, openRxiv, CCC AI License, EasyJournal, AI Scientist-v2, YesNoError, citation problems, AI 'Build or Buy' guide, Geoffrey Bilder on AI, York University Library on the impact of adding profanities into your Google search terms :-)| PubTech Radar Scan
Libraro crowdfunding, a loyalty SaaS solution, a wave of peer review platform updates, future thinking about AI and GenAI, Altmetric insights from Bluesky, Google’s impact on small publishers and more| PubTech Radar Scan
This update covers product launches from AgNetZero, Google's Learn About, MetaROR, Strain Explorer, PaperQA2, Spines, 8080 Books and 8th Note Press.| PubTech Radar Scan
Today's newsletter summarizes my thoughts and reflections from the excellent NEC Publishing Conference AI and the Future of Publishing: Predictions and Possibilities (London, 5 November 2024)| PubTech Radar Scan
Things that have caught my attention over the last couple of weeks include STORM, Proemial, Signals launch, The Conversations from Wiley, replacing purchased class readings with AI-generated readings, and more. I’ve also included some thoughts about technology-enhanced peer review.| PubTech Radar Scan
Things that have caught my attention over the last couple of weeks include a new Booktokers community, Argos retraction data service, DeSci Lab’s novelty score rankings, Sylla, Primo’s Research Assistant and a variety of other chatbot/RAG sevices.| PubTech Radar Scan
Things that have caught my attention over the last couple of weeks include an AI powered peer review tool called Eliza, Fair Connect search and dashboard, Tapla Search, Research Kick Chat, CP2A, the ‘tizzy’ around GenAI in scientific writing, Sakana’s AI Scientist, Shared v Open infrastructure, Academic Fracking, Chief Process Officers, how News publishers are using GenAI, and 67 Bricks on Product Development.| PubTech Radar Scan
After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back into writing mode with an AI-focused issue of PubTech Radar.| PubTech Radar Scan
What’s in this issue: 🆕New stuff: scientifyRESEARCH, Octopus, Writefull’s abstract generator, Alviss, Scholarly Communications in Transition blog, Data Licensing Alliance marketplace.| pubtechradar.substack.com
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