AI for Scholarly Publishing
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Trade publishers and authors of all stripes would do well to keep an eye on AI’s trajectory in the scholarly publishing community. It’s advancing far more rapidly than in consumer publishing. |
I see two reasons for the advance. First, the authors within scholarly publishing are academics by trade, and in the STM sector (scientific, technical and medical), they’re often scientists with advanced degrees. Quite apart from publishing, they are investigating, and often embracing, AI within their work. They would be more surprised to find that their publisher was not exploring the use of AI in editing and publishing their work.
This flows up to the scholarly publishing ecosystem, where, as often as not, the editors are scholars themselves. For them, technology is not intimidating.
I’m not going to drill down further on the particulars in this book; I’ll report on it in more depth on my blog.