Marcie Granahan, NFAIS Executive Director
As Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, wrote, “The only thing...
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Registration now open for NFAIS 2019 Artificial Intelligence Conference-May 15-16 in Old Town Alexandria!...
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a total of $20 million in funding for innovative research and development in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning. DOE’s Office of Electricity has...
source: Energy.Gov
Peer review is central to the quality and integrity of research. Peer review is also hard, time-consuming and often, it seems, thankless.
source: Nature
Before computers, no sane person would have set out to count gender pronouns in 4,000 novels, but the results can be revealing, as MIT’s new digital humanities program recently discovered.
source: MIT News
The rise of open access publishing should be applauded. Scientific research and literature should be made available to everyone, with no cost to the reader.
source: The Conversation
After five months of negotiations, Cambridge University Press and the UC system agreed to a three-year open-access publishing deal recently.
source: The Daily Californian
Recently, a fire ravaged the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, completely destroying its 295-foot spire and causing significant damage to the structure, which has stood the test of time since the 12th century.
source: NewsWire
In a partnership agreement that could serve as a model for academic publishing, Northern Illinois University Press will become an imprint of Cornell University Press beginning July 1.
source: Publishers Weekly
Academic publisher Springer Nature has unveiled what it claims is the first research book generated using machine learning.
source: The Verge
Amazon’s online book store is plagued with thousands of auto-generated ebooks crudely hacked together from other texts by shady authors” looking to make a quick buck. Most are unreadable, but it’s not always going to be that way.
source: GIZMODO
We are at a critical juncture where there is a pressing need for the academic community – individually and collectively – to make thoughtful and deliberate decisions about what and whom to support – and under what terms and conditions.
source: Info Docket
Science publishers aren’t supposed to be in the disinformation business. And that’s precisely what a federal judge in Nevada was saying late last month when she slapped OMICS International with a $50 million penalty...
source: STAT
Roughly 12 times a day, Kurt Albertine, PhD, deletes emails from suspicious journals inviting him to submit articles. The invitations are from predatory journals: Publications that charge authors steep fees for publishing, use deceptive solicitation tactics, and sidestep...
source: AAMC
The number of robots around the world is increasing rapidly. And it’s said that automation will threatening more than 800 million jobs worldwide by 2030. In the U.K., it’s claimed robots will replace 3.6 million workers by...
source: The Conversation
