The Peer-to-Processor Review

Slides from NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore covering AI and scholarly communications topics are now publicly available via figshare — a consolidated reference for tracking evolving standards and consensus positions on AI in research information workflows.

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There is growing skepticism toward the role of publishers, a steady commoditization of publishing services, and fragmentation across the research ecosystem driven in part by AI.

Springer Publishing Company joins the growing cohort of publishers using Cashmere to manage AI content licensing — specifically for healthcare education content.

Springer Publishing Company and Cashmere, the pioneering platform for AI content licensing and infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership that will extend healthcare education content into AI systems.

Retraction Watch managing editor Kate Travis testified before the U.S.

Liverpool University Press becomes the first third-party publisher to adopt Wiley's Research Exchange platform, with AI-enabled integrity screening explicitly cited as a primary driver.

AAAS and DataSeer are extending their ongoing partnership with a new pilot focused on improving research quality and reproducibility while reducing author effort, using AI-supported workflows across the Science family of journals.

AAAS (publisher of Science) and DataSeer are piloting full AI automation of MDAR reporting checklists at manuscript submission.

A roundup covering LLMs and research integrity, the failure of cash incentives for peer review, and a deep dive into the vaping literature's reproducibility problems.

A Retraction Watch roundup anchored by emerging debate on whether LLMs are intrinsically problematic for scholarly integrity or merely a symptom of deeper system failures.

Excellent editorial perspective — the 'arrived through use, not design' framing is sharp and under-covered.