Ethan Mollick, whose One Useful Thing posts are always readable, suggested 15 immediate uses for GenAI. I disagreed with some of them, but I thought the exercise was worthwhile, so, here are my suggestions for research but also for general use. …
A page from Baskerville’s edition of The Bible, 1763 [public domain]
I like the Very Short Introductions, which often give me an overview of a subject in just a few pages, so I was very enthusiastic to read Typography: A very …
A suggested flowchart for using genAI in systematic reviews (from the Search Solutions 2024 conference)
If the Search Solutions conference is to be believed, there isn’t much hope for genAI. This conference is always worth attending, because of its unique relaxed …
How users discover scholarly content, from Inger & Gardner, 2021
How do students and researchers find content? This is a topic that comes up again and again in this column, since it seems to be so frequently misunderstood. Much of the …
You don’t need telling that there is a multiplicity of views on AI in scholarly publishing. The annual NEC Publishing Conference (London, 5 November 2024) was no exception. Among the many statements about AI …
Where would we be without the labels?[Leiden Botanic Garden, photo: MU]
We all agree on the benefits of using PIDs, persistent identifiers, the use of standard metadata such as DOIs for objects, ORCIDs for people, RORs for institutions) to reduce ambiguity …
The past is another country, said H E Bates, but so too is economics, it seems. Things are different in the domain of economics: anyone coming to academic publishing for the first time might …
The photocopier: the traditional method for circulating economics working papers [Image from Pixabay]
I recently interviewed Thomas Krichel, founder of RePEc, the content repository for economics. RePEc, which he founded as long ago as 1997, is interesting for many reasons. …
The Alignment Problem (2020) is an excellent resource for anyone seeking a clear and informed view of the limitations, as well as the opportunities, of current AI tools. Having read Christian’s last, co-authored, book, Algorithms to Live By (2016), I was …
