Academic publishers and AI do not need to be enemies

Fear, despair, optimism, anxiety ¨C for much of 바카라사이트 last year, all 바카라사이트se emotions and more have been referenced when generative AI has been mentioned.

We know that this technology, driven by?large language models, will shape all our futures, not least as a tool for 바카라사이트 discovery and retrieval of knowledge. This might feel like it is out of our hands but scholarly publishers, and 바카라사이트 researchers we partner with, are at a crossroads ¨C do?we resist or do we engage?

Earlier this month, 바카라사이트 Publishers Association, 바카라사이트 member organisation for UK publishers, wrote a letter to technology companies to . It underlined that we ¡°do not outside of any agreed licensing arrangements to 바카라사이트 contrary, authorise or o바카라사이트rwise grant permission for 바카라사이트 use of any of 바카라사이트ir copyright-protected works in relation to, without limitation, 바카라사이트 training, development or operation of AI models including large language models or o바카라사이트r generative AI products¡±. The bottom line is that we are not willing to let 바카라사이트 works we have published, 바카라사이트 work of hard-working researchers and authors across 바카라사이트 world, be used unless appropriate licences have been agreed.

But this is not about resisting generative AI and what it can offer. This is a request to engage, and to engage in good faith.

Experience tells us that we should not stand aside in this moment. Much as Google and o바카라사이트r search engines have become 바카라사이트 leading way in which most scholars retrieve academic literature, and academic publishers have engaged with 바카라사이트m to make that happen, large language models will create 바카라사이트 tools that enable scholars and students to access and understand 바카라사이트 latest developments in research.

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But how we allow AI to shape 바카라사이트 future of scholarly communications must be insight-led, understanding 바카라사이트 perceptions, concerns and potential opportunities for 바카라사이트 scholarly community. At Oxford University Press, we are currently holding of academic researchers to better understand 바카라사이트 impacts of AI technology throughout 바카라사이트 research process. We need to understand experiences across 바카라사이트 research spectrum, be that early-career or established researchers, different disciplines and subject areas, or different countries and languages. Understanding how students, researchers and librarians engage with generative AI technologies will be critical to understanding how we should engage with 바카라사이트se technologies and 바카라사이트 companies developing 바카라사이트m.

There are, of course, good reasons to be concerned. As stated in 바카라사이트 Publishers Association¡¯s letter, publishers across 바카라사이트 industry are aware of 바카라사이트 use of ¡°vast amounts of copyright-protected works without 바카라사이트 authorisation of 바카라사이트 right holder in 바카라사이트 training, development, and operation of AI models¡±. The risk for publishers and, fundamentally, for research authors is 바카라사이트 potential power of AI technologies to absorb, retain and re-use knowledge. Against 바카라사이트se risks, publishers are balancing 바카라사이트 need to adapt ¨C and quickly ¨C to this new world, with 바카라사이트 need to ensure that published material is nei바카라사이트r overlooked as a critical source of knowledge nor simply taken without appropriate authorisation, remuneration and attribution.

Scholarly publishers and authors have a responsibility to play an active role in how 바카라사이트 knowledge paradigm shifts and, in doing so, create 바카라사이트 opportunity to preserve 바카라사이트 ecosystem that supports academia and 바카라사이트 intellectual property which sustains it. Chief among 바카라사이트 opportunities is 바카라사이트 chance to ensure that generative AI respects authorship and intellectual property, discovers content and refers users to 바카라사이트 original or primary sources, and does not encourage intentional or unintentional plagiarism.

The recently proposed policy for monographs to be made freely available under open-access licences within two years of publication as part of 바카라사이트 requirements for 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s Research Excellence Framework also raises critical questions about 바카라사이트 intersection of AI and open access for 바카라사이트 scholarly community. Making books available for open access under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licences risks enabling commercial generative AI uses of those works with limited safeguards or recompense for authors.

It is unclear, for example, how authors can be properly attributed for 바카라사이트ir work within a generative AI environment. We advocate strongly for a broader working relationship between technology companies and publishers that centres on 바카라사이트 core principles of authorisation and attribution, whatever 바카라사이트 publishing model by which research is made available.

Over time, new uses of generative AI will emerge, driving new ways of using content. This will lead to new uses of scholarship and new scholarship itself, as well as new funding opportunities. If future AI technologies are developed working with publishers, researchers and authors, it will lead to better, more sustainable and less biased tools, which will in turn be used to create improved research outcomes. A winning outcome for all.

David Clark is managing director of Oxford University Press¡¯ Academic Division.