Building Scholar-Ready AI: A Conversation with Todd Toler

A Scholarly Kitchen interview with Todd Toler, Ithaka S+R's new Practice Lead for AI in Scholarly Communication, explaining how AI systems that chop articles into semantic chunks for retrieval strip away the citation status, peer-review record, and retraction flags a reader needs to trust a claim. You will understand why publishers are racing to build shared metadata and identifier standards rather than one-off AI tools, and why that fragmentation is a live risk to how reliably your own work gets found and cited. It is a clear, non-technical explanation of a problem most faculty have not yet noticed is happening to their scholarship.

Task

Research & literature

Time

15 min

Level

intermediate

Cost

Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.

Tools

None in particular

Published

2026-06-10

Voice

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe — The librarian's view of how AI is reshaping information literacy and scholarly publishing, which faculty rarely see from the classroom side.