January 30, 2024

The Year Ahead: AI in Scholarly Publishing 2024

January 30, 2024/ Mike Groth

For the last year and a half, the media and publishing world have generated a lot of buzz and discussion about one particular disruptive technology—artificial intelligence (AI). Though AI is not new to the publishing ecosystem, the launch of ChatGPT and the increased daily usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) for web research, writing assistance, and idea generation has raised questions (and problems) with how developer OpenAI trained its chatbot, how we are using this tech in our daily and professional lives, and what it all means for the future.

As an industry innovator in the use of AI to automate workflows and one of many entities experimenting with new applications of this technology, KGL is taking this opportunity at the start of the year to boldly forecast where AI will take scholarly publishing and beyond during 2024.

May 24, 2023

SSP Preview – PUBLISH NOW: A True One-Stop Content Workflow for Scholarly Associations

May 24, 2023/ Mike Groth

The marketplace for scholarly publishing has become increasingly difficult to navigate over the last several years. Independent and society publishers have had to cope with evolving business models focusing on new technology, sustainability, Open Access, and more; pressure to increase high-quality submissions; the growing need for speed to publication, particularly with potentially life-saving research; and expectations of a straightforward author and user experience. To remain competitive and to focus on their main task of publishing important content, publishers have had to rely on a variety of external service providers to help with or take on many of these processes.

At the Society for Scholarly Publishing 2023 Annual Meeting, KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), will explore how publishers can maintain truly comprehensive journal workflows while still sustaining publishing independence.

March 16, 2021

Knowledge Sharing: Five Minutes with Marion Morrow, KGL Director of Sales, UK and Europe

March 16, 2021/ Mike Groth

Normally at this time of year, we would be meeting and greeting our customers and friends at the London Book Fair. I think it’s fair to say that no one at KGL misses that more than the head of our Sutton, UK office, Marion Morrow. I caught up with Marion virtually in lieu of the pub about being a people-person during the pandemic, her deep experience on both the publisher and provider sides of the business, and how technology-based solutions can help publishers, especially during this time.

February 06, 2020

Five Print Trends to Look Out for This Year

February 06, 2020/ Mike Groth

At the back end of last year, a report by Smithers entitled The Future of Global Printing to 2024 forecast that the global print industry will be worth $874 billion by 2024, with its overall value increasing by 1.3 percent year-on-year. While this is a particularly volatile market, constantly subjected to wave upon wave of disruption as the digital revolution marches on, it is also incredibly adaptable, capable of evolving with the times while other industries often falter. And these impressive figures are perhaps testament to this.

So what does the year ahead hold for the print industry? And what are the key trends likely to affect the market in the coming months? Here are our top five.

January 15, 2020

A Look Ahead at Publishing in 2020: AI, AR, Plan S and More

January 15, 2020/ Mike Groth

As 2020 begins, we look at what the year holds for publishers of all kinds, and how technology can help them improve their systems, increase revenue, reach new readers, and more.

#AI #technology #innovation #automation #workflow #AR #PlanS

November 07, 2019

AI 2.0: Machine-Generated Content, Intelligent Automation, and the Future of Academic Publishing

November 07, 2019/ Mike Groth

Every year at the Frankfurt Book Fair, there is a buzzword or phrase that continues to pop up on panels, in articles, and in conversations and meetings. In the past, we have seen ‘big data’ and ‘blockchain’ dominate the headlines, but this year’s buzz word (or acronym) was ‘AI,’ as publishers, information professionals, service providers, and the media debated how this technology can be used in the industry.

Because machine learning and artificial intelligence are integral to KGL’s work helping to alleviate pain points for publishers, we partnered with Springer Nature to host a panel entitled “AI 2.0: Machine-Generated Content, Intelligent Automation, and the Future of Academic Publishing.” On the panel, speakers from KGL (Cenveo at the time), HighWire, and Springer Nature talked about everything from workflow automation and high-speed publishing, to companies that use machine learning and AI for discovery, peer review, and even highlighted emerging technologies which allow publishers to offer a broader range of tools and services to serve researchers and authors.

April 12, 2019

WEBINAR: How AI and Natural Language Processing Can Increase the Speed and Quality of Publishing

April 12, 2019/ Mike Groth

A free webinar available on demand from Publishing Executive, sponsored by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (formerly Cenveo Publisher Services)

For quite a few years, artificial intelligence seemed like just another buzzy term with vague implications on the publishing industry. But now, publishers are putting it into action. Through a range of applications, AI and natural language processing are being used by publishers to streamline workflows, produce higher-quality content, and improve the author experience. Greater automation also frees up valuable time to focus on critical efforts requiring human analysis and subject matter expertise. This webinar will explore current use cases and future applications of AI and NLP in the publishing sector and how they’re combining to make research and publications more timely, relevant and useful.

February 05, 2019

AI and NLP for Publishers: How Artificial Intelligence & Natural Language Processing Are Transforming Scholarly Communications

February 05, 2019/ Mike Groth

For scholarly publishers, AI capabilities have advanced to a degree that they can actually automate significant portions of their workflows, with massive implications for their businesses, their authors and the research community. In our latest report, AI and NLP for Publishers, we explore how AI and NLP are being used today in scholarly publishing and how it may impact the evolution of research. We also explore how the technology works and how publishers like Taylor & Francis are, with the help of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd., realizing the benefits of intelligent automation.

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