How can academic literacy survive in the era of AI summaries and fragmented attention? What does meaningful reading look like to today’s students? In this new blog series, we’ll meet experts who are tackling this emerging challenge – sometimes with unconventional solutions.

Criminal organizations selling fraudulent research articles and authorship slots have been on the rise for the last few years. But how big of a problem are these paper mills really? How do they lure researchers into using their services? And how can we stop them? Drawing on our experiences at De Gruyter Brill, we explore what’s really at stake.