Ithaka S+R announced today that Todd Toler will be the inaugural practice lead for a new area of focused work on artificial intelligence in scholarly communication, beginning June 8.

AI is rapidly reshaping how knowledge is created, discovered, and disseminated. Across higher education and the research ecosystem, leaders are grappling with how to harness its potential while preserving the core values that make scholarship trustworthy.

The new practice area is grounded in a simple but powerful idea: that AI in research and publishing must be “scholar-ready”: aligned with expectations for integrity, provenance, rights awareness, and transparency.

Read more about Todd and this new practice area within our growing body of work across Ithaka S+R on AI in higher education and research.