Guest Post — From Charity to Intellectual Partnership: The Global Monograph Crisis, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Open Access Through the Lens of Ukraine - The Scholarly Kitchen https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/26/guest-post-from-charity-to-intellectual-partnership-the-global-monograph-crisis-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-open-access-through-the-lens-of-ukraine/
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Is this a thing? Is it real? I still search for words and phrases and authors in Google Scholar and elsewhere, and follow threads of citations from one paper to the next backwards to find relevant papers.
Am I obsolete? Is the body of knowledge we create through publication now just grist for an AI search engine?
"Pinter: In 2026, Artificial Intelligence has become the primary consumer, parser, and filter of scholarly research. Large Language Models (LLMs) and specialized AI research assistants are entirely rewriting how scholars discover and synthesize literature (discoverability). If a monograph is not ingested into the core databases from which AI systems learn, it effectively ceases to exist for international science."
I begin to think we need a new global scientific effort to develop synthesize and integrate publications into a better catalog so that we can look papers up the same way we'd find a flight or a hotel reservation instead of hoping an AI will make the right connections.
