Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on AI and Academic Publishing

Published on 27 September 2024

Artificial Intelligence is likely to have far-reaching consequences for all actors in the realm of academic publishing, including authors, editors, researchers, and readers. This symposium aims to foster the conversation about the various ways in which we evaluate, enrich, and disseminate academic knowledge, against the backdrop of continuous advances in the field of AI.

AI-powered systems may be applied to enhance the efficiency of peer review processes, to improve the findability of academic literature, or to help researchers to generate hypotheses within impactful areas of scholarship. AI-driven innovation can simultaneously also pose serious risks, however. How can the academic community protect the integrity and the trustworthiness of scholarly output when papers and data can convincingly be faked by generative AI? How can authors ensure that their works are not being used by tech companies to train Large Language Models, without their prior consent?

Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory. Please register before Monday 4 November 2024.

Register

To answer these and other questions and to foster the conversation about the various ways in which we evaluate, enrich, and disseminate academic knowledge, against the backdrop of continuous advances in the field of AI, Leiden University Libraries hosts a symposium on AI and Academic Publishing on the 7th of November 2024. This symposium is organized in partnership with Elsevier.

The symposium will take place in the Telders Auditorium, in the Academy Building of Leiden University. Please note that this is an on-site event, and no online attendance will be possible. More information on how to reach this location can be found on the right side of the page. For more information about the speakers and topics, see the PDF- document below the location information.

Programme
12:30	Doors open
13:00 - 13:05	Welcome by Kurt De Belder, Director of Leiden University Libraries & Leiden University Press
13:05 - 13:45	Why We Write: Rediscovering What Matters About Scientific Publishing Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Cook, King's College London
13:45 - 14:15	Research Assistant through Hybrid Intelligence Speaker: Prof Dr. Catholijn Jonker, TU Delft and Leiden University
14:15 - 14:45	Science, Shadows & Simulacra: Past and Future of AI in Research Speaker: Dr. Peter van der Putten, Leiden University
14:45 - 15:00	Break
15:00 - 15:30	AI in Science Means AI in Publishing Speaker: Prof Dr. Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam
15:30 - 16:00	From Robotlabs to Papermills: How AI Is Affecting Research, and Scholarly Publishing Speaker: Anita de Waard, Elsevier
16:00 - 16:45	Closing panel, moderated by Kathleen Gregory, Leiden University
16:45	Drinks

 

Contact

For any questions regarding the symposium, please contact the organizing team:
Alenka Princic and Peter Verhaar via [e-mail].