Melody Smith

About Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

When AI Becomes the Researcher: Breakthrough or Boundary?

By |April 28th, 2026|News|Comments Off on When AI Becomes the Researcher: Breakthrough or Boundary?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a powerful assistant to human discovery, helping researchers analyze data, identify patterns and accelerate innovation. But a new […]

Access Innovations, Inc. to Exhibit at SSP’s 48th Annual Meeting

By |April 27th, 2026|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Access Innovations, Inc. to Exhibit at SSP’s 48th Annual Meeting

Access Innovations, Inc. is proud to support the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s (SSP) 48th Annual Meeting, taking place May 27–29, 2026, at the Gaylord […]

Trust in the Age of AI: Academic Publishing at a Crossroads

By |April 24th, 2026|News|Comments Off on Trust in the Age of AI: Academic Publishing at a Crossroads

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping academic publishing, raising both opportunity and concern around one critical issue: trust. For decades, scholarly communication has relied […]

How Governance and AI Tame the Unstructured Wild

By |April 23rd, 2026|News|Comments Off on How Governance and AI Tame the Unstructured Wild

Unstructured data is everywhere — emails, PDFs, videos, social posts, call transcripts, and meeting notes. Basically, it is in all the places your organization […]

Peer Review in the Age of AI: Still Necessary, Increasingly Complicated

By |April 22nd, 2026|News|Comments Off on Peer Review in the Age of AI: Still Necessary, Increasingly Complicated

Peer Review Week is right around the corner, which feels like excellent timing to talk about the quiet identity crisis happening inside scholarly publishing. […]

Powering the Future: How AI Is Transforming the Energy Sector

By |April 21st, 2026|News|Comments Off on Powering the Future: How AI Is Transforming the Energy Sector

Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a key player in how the energy industry operates, optimizes and plans for the future. While the idea […]

Garbage In, Genius Out? Not Without Data Governance

By |April 20th, 2026|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Garbage In, Genius Out? Not Without Data Governance

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is having a moment. It writes, summarizes, predicts, designs and occasionally makes you question your own job security before your […]

Stronger Together

By |April 17th, 2026|News|Comments Off on Stronger Together

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), data centers and cloud computing are often discussed as separate technologies, each with its own role and evolution. In practice, […]

AI in Healthcare: Smarter Care Without the Robot Takeover

By |April 17th, 2026|News|Comments Off on AI in Healthcare: Smarter Care Without the Robot Takeover

Artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics are quietly reshaping healthcare, and no, it does not involve robots stealing stethoscopes. Instead, these tools are helping […]

AI Is Only as Smart as Your Data

By |April 17th, 2026|News|Comments Off on AI Is Only as Smart as Your Data

Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment. Every company seems to be investing in tools that promise faster decisions, deeper insights and maybe a […]