Chilly autumn days are the perfect time to get cosy and catch up on the innovations and debates shaping scholarly communication. Since we last wrote to you, we’ve published a host of articles on hot topics. Here’s a quick round-up to help you choose what to read next.
Latin America is well known for non-commercial platforms such as Redalyc, Latindex, and SciELO, but the central role of universities is less widely recognised. Fernanda Beigel and Manuel Bruccoleri explore that role in their article Is there a Latin American model of diamond publishing?
How should we govern the inclusion of research articles in training datasets for large language models? It’s a major AI talking point, whatever our role in scholarly communication. Masaya Ochiai challenges us to consider The Third Option: integrating AI training‑data licensing into scholarly publishing workflows.
As Rachel Huskisson points out, recent years have seen increased interest in well‑being support within academic libraries, yet UK further education (FE) libraries remain under‑researched in this area. Her article turns the spotlight on Well‑being support and further education libraries: supporting the whole student.
Siti Aisyah Binti Shamshun Baharin and Hannah Crago’s case study highlights the pivotal relationship between librarians and postgraduate researchers and how such partnerships can foster academic excellence.
Small publishers are vital to scholarly communication, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, as Nadiya Greaser and colleagues point out. Their study focuses on the problem of scale in the open access transition, examining what is needed to level the playing field to enable an open access transition and address the problem of scale.
Research assessment plays a central role in shaping research. In his opinion piece, Seán Lacey argues that it should be understood as an institutional lever for sustainable development, aligning research incentives with societal goals.
Don’t miss out on our forthcoming articles. Ognjen Arandjelovic will be asking if we should welcome hallucinated references, and Rubén Comas Forgas and colleagues will be looking at predatory publishers in the search environment.
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Steve and Lorraine